KennyinJHU New York Seminar 2018Day Ten+Eleven.Nothing really prepared me for not only this seminar, but also being in New York. The slow-growing limbs of Los Angeles’s Metro rail system…Mar 24, 20181Mar 24, 20181
KennyinJHU New York Seminar 2018Day Nine: A Hippo Named WilliamOf all the objects and images I remember from a childhood spent reading picture books about Ancient Egypt (not only dinosaurs), it’s a…Mar 23, 2018Mar 23, 2018
KennyinJHU New York Seminar 2018Day Eight: Collaborating Against Climate Change“By understanding and cherishing our past, we can become aware of how to value our present and, most importantly, how to protect our…Mar 22, 2018Mar 22, 2018
KennyinJHU New York Seminar 2018Day Seven: Balancing Tangible and Digital at the New York Historical SocietyMy weekly docent duties can’t be finished without hearing a variation of “Are these skeletons real fossils?” and without seeing visitors’…Mar 21, 2018Mar 21, 2018
KennyinJHU New York Seminar 2018Day Six: Reclaiming Space at the Heye CenterWhat does the decolonization of a museum look like? Further up the Atlantic coast, the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine defines their…Mar 20, 2018Mar 20, 2018
KennyinJHU New York Seminar 2018Day Five: Sewn Together Under One Roof at the Tenement MuseumIt may be one of six or so others like it but the Juki sewing machine on one corner of the table linked me to the saga of the Wong family…Mar 17, 2018Mar 17, 2018
KennyinJHU New York Seminar 2018Day Four: Fraught Forums in an Uncertain AgeMuseums should move away from being temples that enshrine the status quo of the elite (as they do the artifacts, artworks, and specimens in…Mar 16, 2018Mar 16, 2018
KennyinJHU New York Seminar 2018Day Three: Going in Blind at the Brooklyn MuseumSo far, I’ve been wondering about the different ways that museums engage in communication, whether expressed through the arrangements of…Mar 15, 2018Mar 15, 2018
KennyinJHU New York Seminar 2018Day Two: Making the Most of Modern Media at MoMAMy first exposure to modern art as a child was not in a museum, but through Toy Story, in the scene displayed above. While intended to be…Mar 14, 2018Mar 14, 2018
KennyinJHU New York Seminar 2018Day One: Pieces in Communication at the Brooklyn Historical SocietyWhen I started volunteering at the La Brea Tar Pits, I had the impression that I would be a walking, talking factbook for visitors to…Mar 13, 2018Mar 13, 2018