Thursday, March 08, 2007

Le 30e anniversaire de la Journée internationale de la femme

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Right now (at 8:29 p.m. on 8 March 2007) both Radio-Canada and CBC Radio Two are broadcasting a concert live from the Spectrum concert hall ...
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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Invention to Innovation: Current Exhibitions

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It is truly amazing how much hard work is required to produce an exhibit text. The UWO Public History students have worked diligently since...
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Monday, February 12, 2007

Film as GDR history, view into current German psyche

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(I clearly lack the focus to continue my serial blog posts uninterrupted. This little foray into the uses of historical film is, however, bu...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Learning from the ROM's crisis (1)

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Serial blog posts seem to be in vogue. I share Jeremy's thoughts on the value of shorter, more frequent posts, and so am jumping on th...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

(Museum) Architecture and Cultural Identity

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The majority of my last post was taken from an editorial that I wrote for a Public History class exercise back in mid-October, 2006. Recen...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Museums should avoid designs of the past, demand innovation

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On the left is a projected view of Daniel Libeskind's new crystal design for the Royal Ontario Museum's extension. The image is tak...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

A little bit of history (and museology) repeating

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I'm currently taking an art history course on how North Americans have collected medieval Art, and how we've displayed it in our mus...

Move over, Collections

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In last Tuesday's Introduction to Museum Studies class, we discussed the centrality of collections in defining museums. In last Wednesda...
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