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January 25, 2012: Ready-to-Wear: An Eye on 20s Fashion
First impressions of the exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties might suggest that the only important… »January 10, 2012: What’s Behind the Green Doors?
On the first floor of the Museum, if you look to your left while waiting for the double elevators, you will notice two wide… »January 4, 2012: QR in the New Year?
A while back, I reported that we were in the process of a trial period with QR codes. We've just taken a look at the stats,… »December 28, 2011: In the Gallery vs. Online: How a Split Second Can Differ
One of the questions people always ask me is how web differs from what happens in the building and that's a difficult thing to… »December 21, 2011: Split Second: A Curator’s Reaction to the Results
I’ve had a lot of time to mull over the results of the Split Second, so here are a few of my thoughts—roughly one week… »
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Author Archives: Madeleine Cody
Name That Bronx Zoo Cobra? “Wadjet” Of Course!
Last Friday, my husband came home with a New York Post article announcing that the young female cobra who escaped from the Bronx zoo, thus becoming probably the most famous snake in the New York area, if not the whole … Continue reading
The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Beginnings, Part III: Creation
An installation view of The Fertile Goddess intro panel and title taken for archival purposes by our ECAMEA Curatorial Assistant, Kathy Zurek-Doule. All this time, I had been researching each figurine type intensively in order to understand their original appearance, … Continue reading
The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Beginnings, Part II: Planning
Last summer we met in storage for a “bonding” session with the figures we selected from the collection for the show, where Maura, Ellen Belcher (our consultant), and I talked at length about each individual object. Much of what came … Continue reading
HBO’s True Blood team kindly answers our “Bird Lady” questions!
Many thanks are due to our faithful community. Their tweets helped us get in touch with @TrueBloodHBO, the official True Blood twitter feed and they set up a coast-to-coast conference call Tuesday evening between Suzuki Ingerslev, Production Designer for the … Continue reading
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Tagged birdlady, collection, egypt, HBO, movies, television, trueblood, twitter
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“Bird Lady” on HBO’s True Blood
We were first notified of this surprise appearance from a comment in our online collection by Marlene F. Emmett, who spotted a statue that sure looks like our “Bird Lady” in the first episode of the second season of … Continue reading
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Tagged birdlady, collection, egypt, HBO, movies, television, trueblood, twitter
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The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Beginnings, Part I: Conception
An installation view of The Fertile Goddess in the Herstory Gallery. Photograph by Christine Gant. As we deinstall The Fertile Goddess exhibition, it seems appropriate to reflect on a very good question that numerous visitors have asked me: how do … Continue reading
The Fertile Goddess Comes to a Close
Excavated examples of figurines such as this one from northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Syria, made during the Late Halaf Period in the late fifth millennium B.C.E., have been found, often in groups, among domestic refuse. We were thrilled to … Continue reading
The Fertile Goddess: Consultants and Colleagues
Co-curator Maura Reilly, consultant Ellen Belcher, and the Halaf figurine. During the planning stages of special exhibitions or permanent installations, it is a common practice in museums to involve consultants; scholars with specialized knowledge who assist the curators in researching … Continue reading
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Happy New Year from “The Fertile Goddess”
The latest exhibition in the Herstory Gallery, The Fertile Goddess, just opened on December 19, 2008. Imagine how delighted Sarah Giovanniello, Research Assistant, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and I were to see this decoration, which Museum art … Continue reading
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