museums

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• SOURCE: The Millions
  11/11/2021
  

  Conquering Hell

  by Ed Simon

  "Hell’s tragedy is that those who deserve to go there almost never think that they will, while the pious shame-filled neurotic imagines those flames with scrupulous anxiety" – HNN contributing editor Ed Simon meditates on the American engagement with damnation. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  11/7/2021
  

  The Academy Museum Ignores Hollywood Labor History

  by Andy Lewis

  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was originally established to help studios negotiate contracts with the studio unions. Today, the on-set tragedy in New Mexico reminds that film production is an industry and workers make it run. The Academy Museum misses that part of the story.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/9/2021
  

  A Met Exhibition on Women in Photography Shows All Achievements by Women Don't Need to be Celebrated

  by Kelly Midori McCormick

  Why did the Metropolitan Museum use a photo of the imperialist Japanese photographer Sasamoto Tsuneko as an exemplar of women's achievements in the medium? 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Tribune
  11/1/2021
  

  African American Museum in Georgia Honors Forgotten History

  "It all goes back to when I was a child growing up in White Plains," said Mamie Hillman, executive director of the museum. "I always wanted to know — how did I enter into history?"

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• SOURCE: Forward
  10/14/2021
  

  Is the Academy's New Museum Neglecting the Jewish Pioneers of Hollywood?

  "After touring the museum’s seven stories, I discovered that Hollywood’s pioneers, who busted their tucheses building the industry it celebrates, ended up on the cutting room floor."

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  9/27/2021
  

  Katharine Graham Grew into Boldness as Washington Post Publisher

  Curator Jeanne Guttierez of the New York Historical Society joins Here and Now to discuss a new exhibit on the life of the legendary publisher and Washington social fixture once considered the most powerful woman in America.

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• SOURCE: Africa News
  9/19/2021
  

  Ghana, WEB DuBois Museum Foundation to Partner on Museum, Research Center

  The Du Bois Museum Complex aims to transform the Center and create a living museum that revives the transformative spirit and vision of Dr. Du Bois for a unified ancestral home for Africans in the diaspora around the world.

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• 9/12/2021
  

  9/11's Memorials and the Politics of Historical Memory

  by Marita Sturken

  Major 9/11 memorials try to fix the public memory on a moment of national unity that, 20 years later, seems illusory. Other memorials point the way to using the force of memory to encourage critical reflection on nationalism.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  8/26/2021
  

  New Documentary Examines the Politics that Have Undermined the 9/11 Museum

  by David Klion

  A new documentary chronicles the personal conflicts behind the scenes of the 9/11 museum, but asks pointed questions about whether the museum supports deeper public understanding of the attacks and their aftermath. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/20/2021
  

  Billie Jean King among those Named to Womens History Museum Board

  The council is charged with advising the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents on the location, planning and design of the proposed museum and with helping the institution raise money from private donors.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  6/29/2021
  

  The World’s Museums Are Working Out How to Remember the Pandemic

  Trends upward for vaccination and downward for new infections mean that people are able to return to in-person museum visits. Are they ready to view exhibitions on the pandemic? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/12/2021
  

  9/11 Museum’s 20th-Anniversary Exhibitions Become Victims of Cuts

  The budget crunch has also forced furloughs and layoffs of staff as the museum pulls back to focus on its core exhibit. 

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• SOURCE: ARTNews
  7/9/2021
  

  German Museum Repatriates Lakota Chief’s Shirt, Citing ‘Moral and Ethical Reasons’

  Duane Hollow Horn Bear had visited the Weltkulturen Museum in 2019 and submitted a request for the shirt’s return that included a historic portrait photograph, dated to 1900, by John Alvin Anderson.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  7/5/2021
  

  How the 'New Woman' Blazed a Trail of Empowerment

  A new retrospective examines the artistic production of women at the intersections of new photographic technology and rising currents of racism and antisemitism in early 20th-century Europe. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  6/23/2021
  

  National Museum of American History Names New Board Leadership

  The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Board recently elected Enrique Segura, chairman of the board of ENSE Group LLC, and Barbara Franklin, former U.S. secretary of commerce and business executive, to lead its 22-member advisory board. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/11/2021
  

  Racist Mural Puts Tate Galleries in a Bind

  Portions of a Rex Whistler mural in the Tate's restaurant contain racially offensive images. The work as a whole is protected by British heritage laws and can't be altered, putting the museum in a bind between preservation and cultural sensitivity. 

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• SOURCE: Nashville Scene
  6/7/2021
  

  Forrest's Remains, the National Confederate Museum and Racist Hate

  The Sons of Confederate Veterans' effort to move Nathan Bedford Forrest's remains from Memphis to its National Confederate Museum only makes sense if the SCV intends to valorize Confederates who were active in the KKK after the Civil War. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/18/2021
  

  Rijksmuseum Slavery Exhibition Confronts Cruelty of Dutch Trade

  "Dutch traders shipped over 600,000 Africans to north and South America and between 660,000 and 1.1 million people around the Indian ocean."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/12/2021
  

  Opinion: If U.S. Museums Say Black Lives Matter, then they Should Return Africa’s Stolen Art

  "So far, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have not commented on whether their institutions will return the artifacts that were plundered from the Kingdom of Benin."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/7/2021
  

  Decolonising Museums isn’t Part of a ‘Culture War’. It’s about Keeping them Relevant

  by Dan Hicks

  "Britain’s museums sorely need such cultural revitalisation right now, and the question of human remains and artefacts offers a position from which to see debates around museums in a clearer light."