Museums go for broke on new social media platform Threads

Museums are falling over themselves to provide the quirkiest posts on the blockbusting new social media platform Threads. The Whitney Museum of American Artwork in New York is likely one of the cheekiest contenders, posting this weekend a quite cryptic “thread”: “What threads needs me to see: Sports activities, Misogynistic jokes, Barbie. What I wish to see: Artwork, Artists, Barbie”. The Guggenheim Museum in the meantime was additionally eager to faucet into Barbie (who isn’t), posting a fetching picture of a 1939 assemblage by Joseph Cornell incorporating a chicken effigy and a music field. “Once you ask your mother for Barbie doll however get a parrot as a substitute,” quipped the jolly social media feed.

Tate can be making an attempt to hit the humorous bone, posting for example photos of Cornelia Parker’s Chilly Darkish Matter: An Exploded View (1991), a backyard shed exploded by the British Military. “Be aware to self: search for the spare shed key BEFORE asking Cornelia Parker and the British Military for assist,” says the enlightening social media publish. Stomach laughs by the heap.