Remember when the show Old Enough, set in Japan, was the talk of the town when it came to Netflix a few years ago? In case you don’t, the show began airing in 1991, and documented the Japanese tradition of sending very little children on errands. It features children from ages 2-5 doing tasks for…
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And now for something completely different…Get ready to learn more than you ever knew there was to know about South Korean pop music!!! Katharina Faller, @kategoesmuseum on Instagram, is a museum professional in Germany. She has an eye towards all things international art and museums, especially as it pertains to queer history. Recently, Katharina and…
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I rarely write pieces that are part of the “news cycle” or are timely to current events because, I don’t get paid to do this and so there’s no incentive for me to carve out time in my schedule to react to something in the media. But BITCH, if you think I wasn’t going to…
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Content warning: the first paragraph contains references to traumatic events, both recent and from the past 20 or so years. I have elected not to name certain events and refer to them by date so if you need to look up what happened, please do so with care or perhaps ask a friend first. Please…
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Wow, what a title. All I can hope is that one day I do this for money which comes along with having an editor which will add snappy, less literal titles to my writing. Anyway. Hi! I took a week off, which was really weird. It’s weird how fast we get used to things –…
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In the spirit of the crisp back-to-school air, let’s talk about education in the art museum today. If you’re already an art museum educator, you’re probably aware that there is already a whole blog called Art Museum Teaching. It’s a great space for in-depth analysis of some of the points that I want to raise…
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The National Museum of Women in the Art launched the hashtag #5womenartists in 2016, challenging museums and/or art lovers to name 5 women artists over the course of Women’s History Month. Many museums have adopted this as an annual tradition. In the fifth year of this social media campaign, dozens, maybe even hundreds of museums…
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Last time we met, I promised to dig in deeper on what American Art is, since it’s more than just paintings of horses, ships with sails, or men holding swords staring off into the distance. Art world “insiders” and academics might be unimpressed with this series as Art History 101 survey courses move into more…
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Well, it is paintings of horses and ships with sails, but it’s also many other things. I created this space to drag out the small moments and long-standing traditions that seemed beyond question. We consider and investigate how things that are “how it’s always been” came to be that way. At times it can feel…
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In 2019 I visited 27 museums. This is the first year I haven’t spent at least one day of my holiday break visiting a museum for as far back as I can remember. In 2020, I visited 4 museums, and Museum Drip was born in the vacuum. In the absence of critiquing label copy and…
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