Snow Globes: From Art to Kitsch

Snow globes are childhood’s wintery dreamlands, so powerful an allegory that they appear in films, television series, and commercials to carry spectators into a holiday happily-ever-after. During the holiday season, should a snow globe not be readily available from a nearby toy chest or shelf, you can download a snowglobe app for both iPhone and Android, transforming your quotidian emails and social media sites. The ongoing popularity of these iconic pop culture objects, now transformed to the digital realm, gives pause to ask: why snow globes?

A woman riding an alligator in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1931 (attributed)

A woman riding an alligator in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1931 (attributed). F on the megaphone is for the University of Florida. LA and Florida played each other in 1931.

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