Category: Gallery
From Eyesore and Epiphany to Elegance and Elegy: Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals
Graham W. J. Beal, Director, The Detroit Institute of Arts In this presentation, Graham Beal addresses the multiple purposes behind the creation of Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts as well as its changes in meaning within a city...
Museum Studies: 2012
Visual souvenirs from the tenth cohort of the MSP graduate program and the undergraduate program.
Museum Ethics in Collecting and Ownership
Brian Kennedy, President, Director and CEO, Toledo Museum of Art and Peter McIsaac, Associate Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, UM, engage in a conversation about ethical and legal issues associated with the acquisition, maintenance and display of objects in museum collections. Winter 2012. Shifts...
What Happened to the “Ant”? Planetariums in the Digital Age: Do They Still Work?
Derrick Pitts, Planetarium Director and Exhibit Developer, Franklin Institute Science Museum, delivers the 2012 Whitesell Lecture that considers the past, present and future of planetariums as theaters of space and time. Winter 2012. Just 25 years ago, planetariums were the theaters of time and...
Community, Identity and the Jewish Museum in Postwar New York
Jeffrey Abt, Associate Professor, Art and Art History, Wayne State University, and Deborah Dash Moore, Professor of History & Director, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, UM, engage in a conversation about New York’s Jewish Museum and the nature of Jewish identity in postwar America....
