I posted my first little essay here on July 6, 2020, so we’ve been at this for a little under a year, or 9 months, 1 week and 5 days if you’re being choosy. Appropriately, after this gestation period of growth, Museum Drip apparently birthed something with “Museum Nerds Codified” and has ~blossomed~. This is…
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Museum nerds LOVE to be Museum nerds. (Then they complain that “non-traditional” museum audiences feel alienated by museums. š ) Don’t be fooled by the word “nerd;” museum nerds think that they are very cool. But all Museum nerds are not created equal. You’ve got your art museums, your science museums, the behemoth that is…
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I’m aware that crimes against women happen globally daily, weekly, hourly, but in the Western world, I can’t help but feel that the headlines this month have been a really darkly ironic window into what it’s like to be a woman. It’s Women’s History Month, which is why I’m writing posts focused on women in…
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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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Throughout the month, I’ve been sharing Black artists on the Museum Drip Instagram to celebrate Black abundance and talent. This led to consider how many incredible Black artists there were to spotlight, and how many of the contemporary artists and art accounts I follow were doing the same thing, sharing tons of names, some familiar,…
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Me saying “I didn’t create this space to share personal experiences” is starting to sound a lot like a lead on the Bachelor saying “I don’t reward drama.” Then again American culture generally also sounds a lot like the Bachelor franchise being like “we really want to embrace diversity!” and then giving all the screen…
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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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If you’ve not yet entered the Wu, lest you think that this is a song about the get-money lifestyle and touting the joys of capitalism, I’ll tell you right up front that C.R.E.A.M. is a reflection on the unfairness of systemic racism and poverty that keeps certain people down while lifting others up. Wtih this…
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