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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November is officially Native American Heritage Month in the United States. The first official legislation recognizing this dates to the George H. W. Bush administration in 1990. In recent years, there has been much conversation about celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day in October, replacing “Columbus Day,” which was designated as a federal holiday in 1937. Although…
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How much do you know about Star Wars? If the answer is very little, do you have any desire to know more? Probably not? Do you find yourself cornered by people who want to explain to you WHY YOU SHOULD? Does that make you want to know more about it? No? Yeah. Now, substitute “Star…
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Nearly every time I speak about art to adults, at least one individual in the group makes this comment. Notably, not so much from kids. If I tell kids that Hudson River School painters wanted to preserve the environment but they also edited out indigenous people, kids are like, yas bitch, let me go draw…
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Would you prefer to live in a community with or without public art? (And no lol I don’t mean monuments to mediocre white men.) What impression does a town leave on you when you come across bright and colorful murals? Architectural features designed by artists instead of solely for function? How do you think about…
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My intention for my next post was to write about why the arts and their repositories are worth defending. However, I believe my audience largely lies outside of the museum field and that some folks might want a crash course in why people want to burn museums down in the first place. I think we…
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In June of 2020, in the weeks following the murder of George Floyd and the spark of unrest against police violence and brutality against marginalized American citizens, I felt bolstered and energized, living through a classic regime-changing scene: the toppling of statues that represented the old world order throughout the country. It was such a…
Read MoreMuseum Drip was dripping along in my head for years, but as I’ve previously acknowledged, it was the urgency to say something in response to @ChangeTheMuseum that got me to finally hit “publish.” The stories on this account call attention to racial microaggressions (and aggressive-aggressions) and top-down governance that seeks to please super-wealthy board members.…
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