Category Archives: Exhibition reviews

Inventing Abstraction, Reinventing Our Selves

Jonathan Patkowski, PhD Student in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center and Nicole Reiner, Independent Researcher, MA Museum Studies, NYU Figure 1. The Artist Network Diagram in Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925, an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, December 23, 2012–April 15, … Continue reading

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Seductive trash

The blog about Caribbean culture Repeating Islands has recently posted a review of Nick Quijano’s work Basura (Trash) by Diana Soto de Jesús. For the full original review in Spanish, visit the 80grados.net site by clicking here.       … Continue reading

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ASSEMBLED CONTEMPORARIES

By Eugenia Kisin, Anthropology, NYU  “Assemblage has been something that has been part of our fabric, the art historical fabric, since the beginning of time. If you think about the notion of hunters and gatherers, until we became an agricultural … Continue reading

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Hair Today

Haidy Geismar, UCL This is a short commentary on the current special exhibition at the Musee du Quai Branly, Paris’ “Museum of the others”. The exhibition, Cheveux Cheris: Frivolites et Trophies, translated into English as The Art of Hair is curated by … Continue reading

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Meet the Reviewer – Made for Trade

7 November 2012, 11am – 4.30pm Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford An opportunity to critically interrogate the process of curating a temporary exhibition with curators, designers and conservators. Learn how a particular display of ethnographic objects was conceived and evolved, and participate in a … Continue reading

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The Jane Fonda-Kit House: arquitectural prototypes and the promised bodies of sustainability

Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Open University and NYU Today’s post is the result of a collaboration between a brilliant group of Spanish architects, Elii, and myself. The text that follows accompanied the Jane-Fonda Kit House that Elii designed for an exhibition … Continue reading

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Ghosts, Giants and fairies: Classic Faked Photographs a slide show

Does the camera ever lie? A new exhibition shows that photography has been doing exactly that since its inception. From fairies at the bottom of the garden to ghostly visitors, here is a slide show of the best manipulated images (from … Continue reading

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Opening of the newly refurbished Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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New commentary on Le Musee du Quai Branly

Geoffrey White (University of Hawaii) gives a critical appraisal of le Musee du Quai Branly, and a review of Sally Price’s Paris Primitive at the journal Museum Anthropology Review (open access): Civilizations on the Seine: Sally Price’s Paris Primitive  

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Some photographs of the National Museum of the American Indian

This gallery contains 10 photos.

Haidy Geismar, NYU We have recently migrated Material World to a wordpress template which has given us a lot more functionality and flexibility with the kinds of things we can do. We are hoping to experiment a lot more with … Continue reading

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