After many months of object review, checklist creation, cross-departmental consultation, budgeting, conservation, design, research, writing, photography, editing, construction, painting, installation, and lighting, I am pleased…
Read MoreTextiles are a crucial element to the story I wanted to tell in African Innovations. Immensely varied in media, form, content and use, textile arts…
Read MoreOne of the many adaptations that moving the African collection into the South Gallery on the First Floor has required has been adjusting to a…
Read MoreRecent visitors to the museum may have noticed some increasingly dramatic changes to the first floor—first, a new series of walls began to rise in…
Read MoreThinking further about our unexpected cameo on Treme the other week, there are even further connections to our own collection that can be made to…
Read MoreI was recently alerted by Jenny and Shelley that our African collection got an unexpected shout out on a recent episode of Treme, HBO’s drama…
Read MoreCareful watchers of the museum’s online image collections may have noticed some large new batches of African works begin to pop up over the last…
Read MoreIn the spirit of recent discussions about making our collection more available to view online, I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight a small…
Read MoreOne of the African collection’s most famous, signature objects has recently returned to view in the first-floor galleries, after well over a year’s worth of…
Read MoreOnce permanent installations are set into place, the opportunities for placing previously unseen works on view are rather rare—even with a collection as deep (with…
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