Did you know a museum in Rotterdam spread 800 pounds of peanut butter on their floor and called it art?
Completely nuts: Dutch gallery covers floor in peanut butter to honour late artist from The Guardian. The artwork is to honor the late Dutch artist Wim T Schippers by creating a hexagonal floor installation called Pindakaasvloer (Peanut Butter Floor).
Actually, it is a recreation of a work that Schippers already created, meaning that the world has already seen a peanut butter floor… Here’s a fun quote from The Guardian article: “When Pindakaasvloer was showcased at Utrecht’s Centraal Museum in 1997, it was vandalised by schoolchildren who covered it with chocolate sprinkles and slices of bread – recreating a popular Dutch childhood snack. Schippers was reportedly not dissatisfied with the result.”
He is also known as the voice of Ernie in Dutch Sesame Street. (Marco can always make me laugh when he pretends to be Bert and Ernie.) The best part was the voice actor that played Bert in Dutch Sesame Street, Paul Haenen, left a message in the obituary of De Volkskrant:
This can be translated loosely as “Dear Ernie, you will remain, but you will never be the same. We had such a beautiful time. Your friend, Bert.” Although it loses something in the translation (and not just the rhyme of ‘zijn’ and ‘fijn’). Perhaps it is because you are supposed to hear ‘Wat hadden we het fijn’ in Bert’s voice.
Life in the Hague 