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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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A Response to NYT’s “Plains Indian Culture, as Seen Through the Ingenuity of the Tepee”
Recently, the New York Times published a highly critical review of the Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains exhibition. As one of its main points of contention, the review questions the relevance of contemporary Native American art in an exhibition … Continue reading
Native America: Images from the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives
The Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains exhibition provides us with a wonderful opportunity to showcase the Museum’s Native American collections and resources. As someone who has studied Native American art and whose Grandmother was Native American, I am very … Continue reading
Know Your Museum-Sounds (Installing a Tipi)
Installing a Tipi by Know Your Museum
So How Do You Set Up a Tipi?
That’s exactly the question we were asking ourselves when Nancy Rosoff and Susan Kennedy Zeller organizing Curators for Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains put not one but four tipis on the checklist. The exhibition opens February 18, 2011 continuing … Continue reading
Crow Fair 2007: Morning Parade and Grand Entry
As we prepare for the Brooklyn Museum’s tipi exhibition, I am in Billings, Montana attending the 2007 Crow Fair with my colleague Susan Kennedy Zeller. Here are a few images from the morning parade and the Grand Entry to the … Continue reading
Tipi Exhibition Planning Meeting
In the popular imagination, the tipi has come to represent a common stereotype about how all Native American people used to live. In truth, however, it is a specific cultural expression of the Native peoples of the Great Plains region … Continue reading


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