Halloween Post: An App for Exploring an Historic Cemetery
This past Halloween weekend the exhibition Sylvan Cemetery: Architecture, Art and Landscape at Woodlawn Cemetery closed at the Wallach Gallery at Columbia […]
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Transposing Shakespeare to 21st-Century NYC
May is Lower East Side History Month. This brand new annual festival launched earlier this month at Pier 42 with a picnic featuring live music and family activities. More than fifty cultural organizations and community groups have joined together to celebrate the rich, diverse history of the Lower East Side. The organizers aim to “connect our present to our past, exploring how history can inform and inspire our future.” Look for more up-to-date info on Twitter @LESHistMonth.
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Gilded Age New York: A Q&A with Barbara Gallati
The New-York Historical Society recently opened Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America (September 26, 2013-March 9, 2014). The exhibition—curated by Barbara […]
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3D Scanning in Museums: A Q&A with the Smithsonian's “Laser Cowboys”
In the nineteenth century, cast collections—plaster copies of famous statues and architectural monuments primarily from antiquity and the Renaissance—enabled working […]
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Artists as Docents: A Q&A with Michele Saliola of the Judd Foundation
In June, Donald Judd’s five-story home and studio, in a historic cast-iron building at the corner of Spring and Mercer […]
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Gettysburg at 150
I attended The Future of Civil War History conference recently at Gettysburg. One outstanding element of the conference involved a […]
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Building a Museum Collection from the Ground Up
Museum collections are so often the product of serendipity and circumstance— accumulated over a long period of time, shaped by […]
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Storywalks: A Smartphone App that Draws on the Archives to Bring a Historic Building to Life
In December, the Museum at Eldridge Street, which is housed in the historic 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, launched Storywalks, a […]
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Inviting Contemporary Artists to Interact with a Historic House: A Q&A with Carol Ward
The monumental Palladian-style Morris-Jumel Mansion, perched atop one of the highest points of New York City at 160th Street, […]