A throne room, built from garbage and wrapped in aluminum foil, was discovered in a storage unit in 1964, Washington DC. Accompanying it, was a holy text written in an unrecognizable language. Together, these works make up James Hampton’s “Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly.”

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Additional Reading/Viewing:

Washington Post (1981): https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv...
Washington Post (2005): https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv...
History.org: https://www.history.org/Foundation/jo...
Pacific Standard article: https://psmag.com/social-justice/crac...
Smithsonian Lecture:    • James Hampton’s Throne of the Third H...  
Art Is Not A Spectator Sport Podcast: http://artisnotaspectatorsport.com/?p...
Hamptonese and Hidden Markov Models paper: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/stamp/...
Down the Rabbit Hole (Henry Darger):    • Henry Darger | Down the Rabbit Hole  
The Interactive Dept:    • James Hampton and the Third Heaven of...  


Art inspired by The Throne:

Le Loup’s music: https://leloup.bandcamp.com/
Denis Johnson’s poetry: https://www.amazon.com/Throne-Nations...
Shelley Pearsall’s fiction: https://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Most-I...

Music:

Comfortable Mystery 4 - Film Noire by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: http://incompetech.com/

“Fairy Meeting” by Emily A. Sprauge

“Animaux Obscènes” by Dan Bodan

“Keeping Sacred” by Emily A. Sprauge

Babylon - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: http://incompetech.com/

CGI Snake by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/divider/
Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

Some stock footage provided by Studio Crump:    / @crumpstockfootage