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Going with the Flow

Museums Selling Facemasks For Your Growing Collection
hopping online is one way to support museums across the U.S. For a bit of color, masks bearing
during the current tough times brought on by coronavirus van Gogh almond blossoms,
Sclosures. Many museum shops are selling essential items like Monet water lilies and
reusable face masks—in artful cloth fabrics and at times emblazoned Tiffany glass designs
with collection artworks—and oftentimes these pieces are artisan-made ($14.99) from the shop
or artist-designed. at Virginia Museum
“You need to go of Fine Arts can
home and look at your add a vibrant art Asian Art Museum's boutique offered masks from Takashi
sock drawer – that’s statement to an outfit. Murakami's production studio, Kaikai Kiki.
how many masks LA’s MOCA offers the mother lode of
you’re going to need,” collector-worthy masks in a set of nine limited production designs
said the Peabody Essex ($280). The artist-designed collection includes masks by Virgil Abloh,
Museum Director of Mark Grotjahn, Alex Israel, Barbara Kruger, Yoko Ono, Catherine
Merchandising Victor Opie, Pipilotti Rist, Hank Willis Thomas, and The Andy Warhol
Oliveira in a recent Foundation for Visual Arts, plus a MOCA Mask.
interview with the Thanks to ArtFixDaily.
The Great Sea Serpent face mask from Boston Globe. “Because
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match them to your clothes at some point, and you’re going to want to FRONTIER ANTIQUES SHOW
wash them. Masks are a way to protect yourself, but also to express
yourself,” he continued. “It’s a great way for people to project their love Saturday, October 3, 2020
for culture and art.” Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Peabody Essex Museum Shop, in Salem, MA, offers several eye- Washtenaw Farm Council Fairgrounds
catching masks inspired by works in its collections (note: some designs 5055 Ann Arbor-Saline Rd, Ann Arbor, MI
may be sold out or are coming soon). New designs ($20) are based on Just 3 Miles South Off I-94 Ex-way, Exit 175, South
a Japanese kimono, a Chinese botanical painting and a 19th-century
print of a great sea serpent. Saturday 9-4 • Adm. $5 (children free)
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The online Boutique at San Francisco’s Asian Early Buyers: Friday 2:30pm-7pm • Adm. $10
Art Museum has an array of masks to Saturday 7:30am • Adm. $20
choose from, including organic 122 tables/booths of the finest Quality 18th and 19th Century
Indian items, Frontier Weapons, Colonial Antiques, plus many
cotton prints by Japanese designer related early Americana and historical finds to be had. Bring
Chikako, made in France ($18). a show related item to sell (no cartridge guns) and get $1 OFF
admission, and there is no admission charge after 3pm.
Proving their popularity, smiley No University of Michigan Home Football Game Traffic!
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