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Tag Archives: Museums
2020: Ingathering
Joyce Brienza + Deborah Sukenic: Ingathering (2020); from an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
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Tagged 2020's, 21st Century, Art, Deborah Sukenic, Detroit, Joyce Brienza, Mixed Media, Museums, Painting, USA, Women
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1932: New Art Saves Strange Beasts
A headline from this article in Popular Science Monthly, January 1932:
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Mammals, Museums, Rhinoceroses, Science, USA, Zebras
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1946: First They Came
Although this is one of the world’s most famous poems, there is no definitive version of it. Indeed, there is no clear evidence that its author, the Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, ever put it into poetic form. Several variations exist, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Christianity, Disability, Fascism, Germany, Harold Marcuse, Holocaust, Judaism, Martin Niemöller, Museums, Poetry, Religion, Socialism & Communism, Unions, WWII
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1998: Beyond the Skin
Inga hears from a friend that there is an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and decides to go see it. She thinks for a moment and recalls that the museum is on 53rd Street, so she walks to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, 2000's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Andy Clark, Art, Australia, Conceptual Art, David Chalmers, Great Britain, Iceland, Katrín Sigurdardóttir, Museums, New York City, Philosophy, Scotland, Women
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1898: The Moon
This model of the moon—made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal—was prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt for the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago; the museum was located on the grounds of the World’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Astronomy, Chicago, Germany, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Miniatures, Museums, The Moon, USA
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2106: Transitional Object
In 2016, Cornelia Parker installed this replica of the house from Hitchcock’s Psycho on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. It’s made from repurposed wood from a red barn; the title of the work … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Alfred Hitchcock, Architecture, Art, Conceptual Art, Cornelia Parker, Film, Great Britain, Houses, Museums, New York City, Psychology, Women
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1930: Atlas
Boris Ignatovich: At the Hermitage, 1930
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Art, Boris Ignatovich, Museums, Photography, Russia, Sculpture, Soviet Union
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1908: Work or Riot
On October 15, 1908, an Irish clerk and ex-soldier named Wallace Brandford Collins ordered a throng of unemployed men and women in Hyde Park to riot at the British Museum. Collins was described as a man of powerful physique who … Continue reading
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Art, Great Britain, Labor, London, Museums, Poverty, Rebellion, Riots, Wallace Brandford Collins
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1785: Museum
Sarah Stone: Perspective interior view of Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum in Leicester Square, London March 30 1785
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Tagged 18th Century, Animals, Art, Great Britain, Museums, Painting, Sarah Stone, Women
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2140 BC: Head
Head of an Egyptian statuette in the Penn University artifact lab (2374-2140 BC) (source)
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