"I like placing the woman facing away," Koons said, "so people will walk this way, and then they'll see — 'Urination'!" He gestured toward a large Warhol on the wall, part of a series that the Master created by directing male assistants and privileged Factory visitors to pee on a canvas primed with copper-based paint.
"I like placing the woman facing away," Koons said, "so people will walk this way, and then they'll see—'Urination'!" He gestured toward a large Warhol on the wall, part of a series that the Master created by directing male assistants and privileged Factory visitors to pee on a canvas primed with copper-based paint.
Shrouds hid key manufacturing processes from the eyes of factory visitors.
Accommodated in the grounds of a former tent factory, the visitors are expected to make what they will of the experience, while the "work" itself is made in homage to the brothers Grimm, who lived and wrote near Kassel.
A 10-minute walk away, and boasting the resonant address 9 Holy Bones, is the Guru Nanak Sikh Museum, a former hosiery factory where visitors, with their shoes left at the door and heads covered, can trace the history of Sikhism through photographs, documents and detailed models of South Asia's major temples.
This year the new Frostbit Factory allows visitors a peek behind the scenes to learn how the ice sculptures are made.
Chicago architectural firms grew to be large, hierarchical and with numerous specialist staff; the famous D. H. Burnham & Company, for example, felt like a small factory to visitors, and ultimately expanded to employ 180 staff.
Unheard-of in car factories today, visitors seem free to wander the laid-back premises of "the Morgan's," where rows of brick and mortar sheds with blue wooden barn doors have welcomed as many as a half-dozen generations of families who have come to work here.
The Soap Factory does make visitors sign a waiver before they enter the Haunted Basement.
When the Techmania Science Centre (science edu-tainment for kids, with a superb new exhibit dedicated to special effects) and the 3D Planetarium (adults £5 entry to both, kids £3.15 ), opened in renovated factory buildings, some visitors came for the buildings as much as the content.
The entire physical album will be on display for an exhibition at The Vinyl Factory Soho, where visitors will be able to listen to the album on each of its respective formats, buy their own limited editions of the album, and view Jackson's latest audiovisual artwork.
