Museum of Pizza

The Museum of Pizza, otherwise known as MoPi, was a pop-up exhibition, or "selfie museum", of pizza-themed art that took place in Brooklyn, New York, from October 13 to November 16, 2018. The Museum of Pizza featured artwork by over 25 different artists, including large-scale pizza-inspired custom installations by Adam Green, Shawna-x, Signe Pierce and Emma Stern, Gazoo To The Moon, and more.

Exhibits

The museum consisted of a group show titled "The Psychedelic Pizza Parlor", which was curated by RJ Supa of the Yours, Mine, and Ours Gallery (located in downtown Manhattan) and featured work from Sarah Bahbah, Hein Kohn, Adam Parker Smith. Andrew W.K.'s custom pizza guitar was also on display. The Museum also displayed 70 pizza boxes from Scott Wiener's Guinness World Record holding pizza box collection. A preview party was held at the New Museum. Upon leaving the exhibition, visitors were also able to have a free slice of pizza from pizzeria Williamsburg Pizza.

The Museum of Pizza was created by Kareem Rahma, co-founder of Brooklyn-based media company Nameless Network. Rahma was inspired by the Museum of Ice Cream, as well as a cave system in Lebanon, which served as the inspiration for the Museum's "Cheese Cave" exhibit. Rahma detailed the process of creating the museum on an episode of Gianmarco Soresi's podcast The Downside.

The museum hosted over 25,000 people in its six-week run.

References

  1. ↑ Indrisek, Scott (15 October 2018). "The Museum of Pizza Owes Its Artists an Apology". Artsy. Archived from the original on 17 March 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2026.
  2. 1 2 Cascone, Sarah (October 16, 2018). "Brooklyn's Museum of Pizza Is Now Open—and It's Exactly as Cheesy as You'd Expect". Artnet News. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ Hess, Amanda (September 27, 2018). "The Existential Void of the Pop-Up 'Experience'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  4. 1 2 Mufson, Beckett; McManus, Brian (October 16, 2018). "This Made-for-Instagram Pizza Museum Actually Has Great Art". Vice. Archived from the original on August 22, 2025. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  5. ↑ Levy, Nicole (26 April 2018). "Why those Museum of Pizza ads are so sexual". am New York. Archived from the original on 2018-06-24. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  6. ↑ Gianmarco Soresi (2024-07-06). The Pizza Museum (Full Story). Archived from the original on 2024-09-07. Retrieved 2024-09-07 – via YouTube.
  7. ↑ Kato, Brooke (2024-07-11). "Museum of Pizza creator shares 'bonkers' story behind his nearly Fyre Festival-level catastrophe: 'I lost a lot of money'". Archived from the original on 2024-09-07. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
  8. ↑ "Pompeii's pizza". www.domusweb.it. Archived from the original on 22 October 2023. Retrieved 7 May 2026.

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