It’s right at Tufts – no excuse for not checking this great event out! On Sunday, March 11, at 3pm, the Tufts Art Gallery is organizing a walkthrough of Nancy Holt: Sightlines with Contemporary Art Historian and Museum Director Chris McAuliffe. The one-hour tour will be followed …
Please take a few minutes to help a fellow museum studies student out. Leslie Howard, who’s completing an MA in Museum Studies from Harvard and is NEMA’s Membership Manager, is writing her thesis on collecting contemporary objects. Do you have an opinion on whether museums …
If you are interested in the Tufts Museum Studies graduate program, make sure to attend the open house coming up this Wednesday, March 7 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
It promises to be a fun, informative talk, and I’m not just saying that because I’m one of the presenters. Come visit even if you’ve already applied to the program, as you’ll be able to meet professors, hear overviews of courses you can take, and meet current students and recent graduates.
RSVP online here, and email Angela Foss with any questions.
Welcome to our weekly roundup of news articles about museums. Army history museum shows off remodel Celebrating 10 years with 6 Museum School Instructors Grimshaw Breaks Ground on the Miami Science Museum Which Will Be Its Own Living Exhibit Bellevue’s Museum of Doll Art shuts …
This was going to go into our museums in the news roundup, but it’s too cool not to get its own post. John Kannenberg, audio artist, has sampled the daily and ambient sounds Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, Michigan along with a number …
This sounds really interesting and right up the museum studies alley. Check it out if you can!
March 5, 6 pm, art history department seminar room, 11 Talbot Ave.
Lucia Allais, Princeton,
The Salvage of Abu Simbel, or, Heritage as Technology
Lucia Allais is Assistant Professor in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. She specializes in the intellectual and political history of architecture, urbanism, and preservation since 1900, with a particular focus on international institutions and global practices. She has published a number of essays, including “International Style Heritage” in Volume 20 (2009); “The Real and the Theoretical 1968” in Perspecta 32 (2010); and a translation of Superstudio’s Salvage of Historic City Centers in Log 22 (2011). She is working on a book about the international preservation movement and the history of destruction in the twentieth century.