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Free Event: MA Museums Day – October 7

September 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Current students and museum professionals – consider attending the FREE Massachusetts Museums Day, hosted by NEMA on October 7. The event, located at the State House in Boston, strives to “build awareness and advocacy for the museum field. This is a great opportunity for museum studies students to practice advocacy and get a better picture of the field in action. Please participate! You can register at http://www.nemanet.org/resources/museum-support/advocacy/massmuseums-day/.

Massachusetts Museums Day
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Great Hall, Massachusetts State House
24 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 01233

Here is more information about #MassMuseumsDay from the NEMA website:

Speak up for your museum, meet your legislators, and help us celebrate and advocate for all museums! Join us for an informal reception in the Great Hall, show off your museum’s unique resources and achievements, and hear from government and museum representatives about the importance of public support for Massachusetts’ cultural treasures.

We encourage museums, museum staff, students, and supporters across the state to attend. This event is free.

RSVP here

Tufts Art Gallery: Fall Exhibitions

September 11, 2015 / / 0 Comments

As of Thursday, September 10th, the fall exhibitions at the Tufts University Art Gallery are open to the public! The public reception is Thursday, September 17th from 5:00-7:30 in Remis Sculpture Court.

 

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Installation view of Shahzia Sikander’s Parallax. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.

The upstairs Tisch Gallery again features a multi-media installation, this time by internationally-recognized artist Shahzia Sikander (b. 1969, Pakistan). Her immersive animation Parallax, with music and sound by composer Du Yun, was conceived in the United Arab Emirates and first appearing at the Sharjah Biennale in 2013. Related paintings, drawings, and photographs are also included in the Tufts exhibition.

 

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Installation view of Last Folio. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.

Downstairs, the Koppelman Family Gallery features Last Folio, a part of international commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II with previous displays at the United Nations in New York, the National Library of Germany in Berlin, the Mark Rothko Museum in Latvia, and the New Museum of Tolerance in Moscow. Canadian-Slovakian photographer Yuri Dojc teamed with British media producer Katya Krausova and a documentary film team to document their travels to abandoned Jewish spaces in present-day Slovakia. Last Folio features photographs on paper and large sheets that create a contemplative environment.

 

Detail of Sophia Ainslie (MFA 2001). Ainslie's seven-panel mural, In Person—574. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.
Detail of Sophia Ainslie’s seven-panel mural, In Person—574. Photo by the Tufts University Art Gallery.

The exhibition in Remis Sculpture Court explores the creation and installation of a monumental site-specific art commission for the new Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex at 574 Boston Avenue on Tufts’ main Medford campus by Boston-based artist and Tufts alum Sophia Ainslie (MFA 2001). The displays feature original paintings, materials, and photographs from the creation of her seven-panel mural, In Person—574.

 

Welcome New Museum Studies Students!

September 2, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Last night was the orientation for the incoming Museum Studies students. Jess and I tagged along to meet them all and to talk about the blog, and we are so excited about the newcomers! There are a lot of intelligent, enthusiastic and passionate people coming in to the program. There is a wide variety of interests and experiences, which will lead to some captivating guest posts.

We heard from Cynthia Robinson, the director of the program, and many of the Tufts professors (most of whom are working in museums as their day job) about their plans for their courses. There have been some changes to the courses since last semester, so check them out here if you haven’t had a chance to take a look. It definitely made me wish I could take more than four courses a semester!

A portion of the new students listen to Cynthia Robinson, director of the program, as she discusses internship opportunities

A portion of the new students listen to Cynthia Robinson, director of the program, as she discusses internship opportunities

We wish everyone the best of luck with the new semester! We’re both here and available to talk about the blog, about Tufts, or about life in general. If you’d like to post something (or many things!) on the blog you can contact us at tufts.museum.blog@gmail.com – we’d love to hear from you! Remember that you can submit papers that you’ve written for class or reviews of museums that you are already going to in your free time.

 

Good luck this fall!

Colleen & Jess

Strandbeests in Boston!

July 29, 2015 / / 0 Comments

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Strandbeests, the fascinating creatures built by artist Theo Jansen are coming to the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in September. These sculptures move of their own accord and, as PEM puts it, “blur the lines between art and science, sculpture and performance.” I won’t try to write an interpretation of the art behind the Strandbeests, as I know I won’t be able to do it justice. I will just highly recommend that you watch Theo Jansen’s TED Talk, or read any of the several reviews of his work (like this one, this one, or this one – you get the idea). You can also just google them and spiral down a Strandbeest hole – I’ll warn you that when I first heard of Strandbeests, I spent a good hour just watching YouTube videos (like the one below) of the different creatures walking on an array of surfaces.

 

The exhibition will be open from September 19 through January 3. The Peabody Essex Museum is offering several opportunities to see the Strandbeests up close, and you’ll be able to see these creatures out and about throughout August and September at the following places (for free!):


Crane Beach, Ipswich
Saturday, August 22, 10 am – 12 pm
Please note that there is a fee to access and park at Crane Beach. Visit thetrustees.org for more information.

Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston
Friday, August 28, 11 am – 1 pm

Dewey Square, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston
Friday, August 28, 4:30 pm – 7 pm

MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst St., Cambridge
Thursday, September 10 | 3 pm – 7 pm
Between 3 and 5 PM, Theo Jansen will join a panel with the PEM Curator of the Present Tense and MIT Media Lab associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences. From then, the Strandbeests will walk outside of the MIT Media Lab between 5:30 and 7 PM.

 

All of these events are free and open to the public, and no tickets are required.

 

The New Tour: Innovations in Place-Based Storytelling

July 28, 2015 / / 0 Comments

The Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University is hosting “The New Tour: Innovations in Place-Based Storytelling,” a two-day conference to explore the challenges and opportunities associated with designing and implementing place-based tours.

The Jenks Society Presents THE LOST MUSEUM

The conference is free and open to all. To register and find more information, visit their website, https://newtourconference.wordpress.com/.

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