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Olivia Rodrigo: the cure unraveled
Handmade sets, props, and original artwork from the "the cure" music video, including her nurse costume and hospital props.
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In the video, Olivia Rodrigo plays a nurse in a cardboard hospital, operating on felted hearts to find an antidote to her feelings. You walk into the Grammy Museum's third-floor gallery and you're standing in that hospital: floor tiles painted one by one, hallway blinds cut from recycled packaging boxes, a ceiling light whose centre spoke is a cookie tin.
Around the set are her nurse costume, the miniature operating room, the beating felt heart, storyboards, a skeleton X-ray and the decaying doorways she walks past on screen. Sweety High's writer kept stopping at background details the video cuts away from. The operating room's glass brick wall is more than 300 takeaway containers, so your cupboard stack of clean ones was always a wall in waiting.
This is one video's world, made for fans who know it. Note by note, the career show on the same floor since 25 September, covers the tours. Both come with the $22.50 museum ticket. The museum is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Look for
The miniature operating room
Look closely at the shelves: the tiny medicine bottles were made from gel nail polish material.
The beating felt heart
One of the felted hearts Rodrigo operates on in the video, a handmade animatronic prop rather than a screen effect.
The nurse costume
The vintage-style nurse cap and dress Rodrigo wore while filming the video.
The decaying doorways
The run of crumbling hospital doorways she walks past on screen, built by hand from cardboard and paint.
Hand-stitched album artwork
Handwritten and hand-stitched pieces made for the packaging of you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.
Good for
- Going Solo
- Teenagers
Skip if
You haven't seen the video: the whole show is its set, props and storyboards.
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- Olivia Rodrigo: the cure unraveledCourtesy of GRAMMY Museum L.A. LIVE
- Alexander Apóstol: Regime: Dramatis PersonaeCourtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Photo by Jeff McLane.
- In These Times: Recent Acquisitions at MOCACourtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
- Sculpted Portraits from Ancient Egypt© The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved
- GRAMMY Museum L.A. LIVEJeremy Thompson / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)Benoît Prieur / Wikimedia Commons, CC0