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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Rock and Roll Family Edition

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Before the MAH exhibition, those historic surfboards rested deep in the collection storage of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. We paid a small fortune to have them conserved and shipped here for exhibition. They became massively relevant as cultural icons, but more sanitized, less relevant to the youth culture that drives pop music.

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Meditations on Relevance Part 5: Relevance is a Bridge

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Before the Princes of Surf exhibition, these boards rested deep in the collection storage of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. They were in storage for 90+ years before historians in Hawaii and Santa Cruz discovered they were THE boards in the first known record of surfing in the Americas in Santa Cruz. It was June of 2009.

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