A Basquiat-painted Ferris wheel, a Keith Haring carousel, and more are part of the project, to be rebooted in LA next year.
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A VR Archive for the Vanishing Haunted House Ride
“Like pinball and computer games, it’s hard to get people to take ghost trains seriously, but they aren’t just important, they are disappearing,” Joel Zika, creator of the Dark Ride Project, told Hyperallergic.
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The Hand-Painted Ghouls and Specters of Mid-20th-Century Carnival Ghost Trains
Almost all carnivals traveling the circuits in the United States and Great Britain in the 1940s and ’50s towed their own haunted railroad.
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Between Carnival and Performance Art: Nine Artists on Masquerade
NEW ORLEANS — It’s astonishing that in 2015 a group exhibition of nine artists of color can still be impressive based on statistics and context alone.
