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Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is paying tribute to the late Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers with a literal, delicious homage: an eight-hundred-pound peanut butter floor, meticulously recreated using the same specialists who installed it in 2011. This playful, thought-provoking installation—part of Schippers’ decades-long series of conceptual floor art—invites visitors to question what counts as art, and whether beauty can exist in the absurd. Schippers, a TV writer, comedian, and Sesame Street voice, insisted on Calvé peanut butter for its perfect spread, leaving the shape to the imagination. Over the years, his peanut butter floors have been whimsically defaced by kids—something he found delightfully amusing. It’s a sweet, sticky, and surprisingly profound tribute to an artist who believed art should surprise, unsettle, and make you smile.

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