Babes in Museum Land (NSFW)
So we know that museums are filled with some of the world's greatest art, but what about the people who attend museums? Are they artworks unto themselves? Blogger Xavier Aaronson is out to prove just that with his blog Babes at the Museum. The site takes a cue from street fashion blogs likes The Sat
So we know that museums are filled with some of the world’s greatest art, but what about the people who attend museums? Are they artworks unto themselves?
Blogger Xavier Aaronson is out to prove just that with his blog Babes at the Museum. The site takes a cue from street fashion blogs likes The Satorialist and transfers it to the museum, where apparently some of the most babe-ilicious fashionistas can be found. And who can say they’re surprised? Museums attract cultural savvy people, which in most metropolises like New York or Paris, also means hot, superbly well-dressed chicks.
Xavier had this to say about his blog in an email to Hyperallergic:
It’s a concept photo project that examines the unnoticed style and camouflaged flair of those who roam through the world’s most exquisite museums. The parameters are simple: Encounter must be by chance, must ignore requests from security guards and should be a participatory experience with the “babes.” BATM hopes to opens people’s eyes to the style and elegance at the museum that they don’t pick up on because they’re too busy staring at the exhibited art.
Aaronson and his crew of photographers scout out the babes, and there are also Babe Ambassadors, although we’re not totally sure what they do other than look really good in front of art. For someone like me who can’t get enough of people-watching (I’ve been called out on the subway a couple times for staring), Babes at the Museum is like crack.
Some of my favorites are the babes at the La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris (another shocker!) who go all out in some pretty impressive get-ups to look at art. The Natural History Museum is also a babe treasure trove because hot science nerds are the ultimate babes, as well as the hallways and galleries of MoMA PS1, where dressing up in your hipster finest is almost a requirement.
The blog is only proof that while we think we’ve come a long since the days of Manet’s “Olympia” (one of the quintessential art babes that much ink has been spilled over) and art history’s obsession with the perfect female form, art, even just the act of viewing it, is still very much about beauty. And of course the internet will never tire of hot girls.
Just one question: what about all the museum studs? Babes at the Museum includes a few dudes, but it’s slim pickings, and you know the art world isn’t short of its cute boys. Please see: “The Top Ten Art World Figures I’d Like to F***”. Enough said.
Here’s just a taste of some of the best babes that pose, pout and occasionally look at art in museums (captions mine). Thanks to Xavier, I think next time I’m at a museum I’ll be way too busy checking out babes to notice the art.
