Have A Nice Day At Bushwick's Smile Face Museum

Originally founded in 1992 in Mark's Maryland basement, the museum has now found a home in an artist-run Bushwick basement and is open to the public for the first time in 20 years.  

Over the years, the smiley face has been able to adapt to the culture it lives in, existing in almost every form. "This unique collection contains artifacts from more than five decades of smile face cultural production, and offers a rare opportunity to experience a concrete accounting of a seemingly infinite presence. Founder Mark Sachs' curatorial directive for The Museum is that it encompass the sacred to the profane, the commonplace to the bizarre," Adrienne Garbini, the Director of Operations for the museum tells Animal. And, with one of the first emoji art exhibitions opening up just last year, the history of the smiley face is only just beginning.