Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

When the Museum Comes to You

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pic provided by Corning Glass Museum As some of my previous posts shoudl have indicated, I'm a museum nerd. The ones that are not t...
Sunday, June 3, 2018

Feminine feet: a study in contrasts

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Two current exhibits at the New York Historical Society offer a study in contrasts in representing the feminine ideal as represented by th...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Missingness at the Museum

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Pic credit By Ingfbruno - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29455109 Explanation on the title: Missin...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Have desk, will travel

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When we picture mobile now, we picture something small and light like a smartphone, tablet, or maybe a really light laptop. But a hundred ye...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Context for common content

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This is a reworking of a post I wrote this past August 6th, Andy Warhol's birthday, and the same week of my visit to the Whitney Museum ...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Going for the brass ring

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Today I rode the  carousel at Hempstead Lake State Park. Counting my daughter (who did not want to go on by herself) and one other kid, th...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

New Yorkers are far more honest than the folks in DC

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I was thinking about this today. You know, New York gets bad rep, but I believe that people in Washington DC are less honest than people in ...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Fom $7 to priceless: masterpiece marketing

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The crowd waiting to get in to the Frick on Sunday, November 17th Today I visited the  Frick Collection  to see the special exhibit on view ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Representing 100 years of childhood

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Representing 100 years of childhood At the rate of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day, we have created 90 percent of the data we have ...