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Be sure to have your permission slips signed and your lunches packed, in this episode The Two Humans take us on a field trip to the art museum. Please stay in line and keep your hands by your sides!
Episode 28: Please Don’t Touch! Mumblings and Musings on Museums
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources:
Auricchio, Laura
2002 Pahin de la Blancherie’s Commercial Cabinet of Curiosity (1779-87). Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fall, 2002, Vol. 36, No. 1, Contested Exhibitions (Fall, 2002) pp. 47-61.
Boyd, Willard L.
1999 Museums as Centers of Controversy. Daedalus, Summer, 1999, Vol. 128, No. 3, America’s Museums (Summer 1999), pp. 185-228.
Bringley, Patrick
2023 All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.
Conn, Steven
2010 Do Museums Still Need Objects? University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA.
Daily Mail
2010 Clumsy Art Loer Smashes into 80-Million-Pound Picasso Paining in U.S. Museum…Leaving a Six-Inch Gash. Daily Mail, January 26, 2010, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245910/Picassos-The-Actor-painting-damaged-student-Metropolitan-Museum-New-York.html.
Falk, John H.
2009 Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. Routledge, London, UK.
Farrant, Theo
2023 ‘The Artwork Is Not Guilty’: Swiss Museum Unveils Controversial Nazi Era Collection. Euronews.com, November 13, 2023, https://www.euronews.com/ culture /2023/11/13/the-artwork-is-not-guilty-swiss-museum-unveils-controversial-nazi-era-collection.
Glover, Ella
2021 Artwork Damaged by Couple Who Thought Brushes and Paint in Front of Piece Were for Visitors’ Use. Independent, April 7, 2021, www.independent.co.uk /asia/east-asia/graffiti-art-accidental-damage-seoul-b1826626.html.
Greene, Kevin and Tom Moore
2010 Archaeology: An Introduction, Fifth Edition. Routledge, London, UK.
Harris, Gareth
2023 Parthenon Marbles Deal Still on the Table Despite British Museum Theft Scandal. The Art Newspaper, August 28, 2023, https://www.theartnewspaper. com/2023/08/28/parthenon-marbles-deal-still-on-the-table-despite-british-museum-theft-scandal.
Herle, Anita
1997 Museums, Politics and Representation. Journal of Museum Ethnography, May 1997, No. 9 (May 1997), pp. 65-78.
Jefferson, Thomas and Joyce Henri Robinson
1995 An American Cabinet of Curiosities: Thomas Jefferson’s “Indian Hall at Monticello.” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 1995, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 41-58.
Johnson, Anna, Kimberly A. Huber, Nancy Cutler Meliss Bingman, and Tim Grove
2017 The Museum Educator’s Manual: Educators Share Successful Techniques (Second Edition). Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD.
Judkis, Maura
2023 A Museum’s Historic Human Remains Are Now The Center of An Ethics Clash. The Washington Post, July 27, 2023, www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/ 2023/07/26/mutter-museum-controversy-philadelphia/.
Kaplan, Isaac
2017 How Long Do You Need to Look at a Work of Art to Get It? Artsy.net, January 25, 2017, www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-long-work-art-it.
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory
1988 Curiosities and Cabinets: Natural History Museums and Education on the Antebellum Campus. Isis, Sep., 1988, Vol. 79, No. 3, A Special Issue on Artifact and Experiment (Sep., 1988), pp. 405-426.
Lewis, Geoffrey D.
2023 Museum. Britannica.com, December 6, 2023.
Mason, Rhiannon, Alistair Robinson and Emma Coffield
2018 Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics. Routledge, London, UK.
Miller, Peter N.
2017 History and Its Objects: Antiquarianism and Material Culture Since 1500. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.
Razzall, Katie
2023 British Museum Deputy Director to Leave after Thefts Inquiry. BBC, December 13, 2023, https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67710217.
Scarpaci, Joseph L
2016 Material Culture and the Meaning of Objects. Material Culture, Vol. 48, No. 1, Special Issue: Consumer Goods (Spring 2016), pp. 1-9.
Smiedt, David
2021 The 9 Most Expensive Things Ever Destroyed by Clumsy Gallery Visitors. Escape, May 31, 2021, www.escape.com.au/top-lists/the-9-most-expensive-things-ever-broken-by-clumsy-gallery-visitors/image-gallery/9ba72970baa2084a71d7c55b8ceed5cc.
Sotheby’s Institute of Art
2018 Cabinets of Curiosities and The Origin of Collecting. Sotheby’s Institute of Art, August 28, 2018, www.sothebysinstitute.com/news-and-events/news/cabinets-of-curiosities-and-the-origin-of-collecting.
Stringer, Katie
2013 The Legacy of Dime Museums and the Freakshow: How the Past Impacts the Present. History News, Autumn 2013, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Autumn 2013), pp. 13-18.
Waxman, Olivia B
2023 Inside the Controversy over the National Museum of the American Latino. Time, September 18, 2023, time.com/6314166/museum-american-latino-controversy/.
Woodman, Spencer, Malia Politzer Delphine Reuter and Namrata Sharma
2023 ‘The Stuff Was Illegally Dug Up’: New York’s Met Museum Sees Reputation Erode over Collection Practices. The Guardian, March 20, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/mar/20/new-york-metropolitan-museum-collection-artifacts-theft.
Yu, Alan
2023 After Recent Backlash, Community Members Weigh in on Mutter Museum’s Future. WHYY PBS, October 18, 2023, whyy.org/articles/mutter-museum-first-community-meeting-backlash/.
Episode 28: Please Don’t Touch! Mumblings and Musings on Museums
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources:
Auricchio, Laura
2002 Pahin de la Blancherie’s Commercial Cabinet of Curiosity (1779-87). Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fall, 2002, Vol. 36, No. 1, Contested Exhibitions (Fall, 2002) pp. 47-61.
Boyd, Willard L.
1999 Museums as Centers of Controversy. Daedalus, Summer, 1999, Vol. 128, No. 3, America’s Museums (Summer 1999), pp. 185-228.
Bringley, Patrick
2023 All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.
Conn, Steven
2010 Do Museums Still Need Objects? University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA.
Daily Mail
2010 Clumsy Art Loer Smashes into 80-Million-Pound Picasso Paining in U.S. Museum…Leaving a Six-Inch Gash. Daily Mail, January 26, 2010, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245910/Picassos-The-Actor-painting-damaged-student-Metropolitan-Museum-New-York.html.
Falk, John H.
2009 Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. Routledge, London, UK.
Farrant, Theo
2023 ‘The Artwork Is Not Guilty’: Swiss Museum Unveils Controversial Nazi Era Collection. Euronews.com, November 13, 2023, https://www.euronews.com/ culture /2023/11/13/the-artwork-is-not-guilty-swiss-museum-unveils-controversial-nazi-era-collection.
Glover, Ella
2021 Artwork Damaged by Couple Who Thought Brushes and Paint in Front of Piece Were for Visitors’ Use. Independent, April 7, 2021, www.independent.co.uk /asia/east-asia/graffiti-art-accidental-damage-seoul-b1826626.html.
Greene, Kevin and Tom Moore
2010 Archaeology: An Introduction, Fifth Edition. Routledge, London, UK.
Harris, Gareth
2023 Parthenon Marbles Deal Still on the Table Despite British Museum Theft Scandal. The Art Newspaper, August 28, 2023, https://www.theartnewspaper. com/2023/08/28/parthenon-marbles-deal-still-on-the-table-despite-british-museum-theft-scandal.
Herle, Anita
1997 Museums, Politics and Representation. Journal of Museum Ethnography, May 1997, No. 9 (May 1997), pp. 65-78.
Jefferson, Thomas and Joyce Henri Robinson
1995 An American Cabinet of Curiosities: Thomas Jefferson’s “Indian Hall at Monticello.” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 1995, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 41-58.
Johnson, Anna, Kimberly A. Huber, Nancy Cutler Meliss Bingman, and Tim Grove
2017 The Museum Educator’s Manual: Educators Share Successful Techniques (Second Edition). Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD.
Judkis, Maura
2023 A Museum’s Historic Human Remains Are Now The Center of An Ethics Clash. The Washington Post, July 27, 2023, www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/ 2023/07/26/mutter-museum-controversy-philadelphia/.
Kaplan, Isaac
2017 How Long Do You Need to Look at a Work of Art to Get It? Artsy.net, January 25, 2017, www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-long-work-art-it.
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory
1988 Curiosities and Cabinets: Natural History Museums and Education on the Antebellum Campus. Isis, Sep., 1988, Vol. 79, No. 3, A Special Issue on Artifact and Experiment (Sep., 1988), pp. 405-426.
Lewis, Geoffrey D.
2023 Museum. Britannica.com, December 6, 2023.
Mason, Rhiannon, Alistair Robinson and Emma Coffield
2018 Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics. Routledge, London, UK.
Miller, Peter N.
2017 History and Its Objects: Antiquarianism and Material Culture Since 1500. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.
Razzall, Katie
2023 British Museum Deputy Director to Leave after Thefts Inquiry. BBC, December 13, 2023, https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67710217.
Scarpaci, Joseph L
2016 Material Culture and the Meaning of Objects. Material Culture, Vol. 48, No. 1, Special Issue: Consumer Goods (Spring 2016), pp. 1-9.
Smiedt, David
2021 The 9 Most Expensive Things Ever Destroyed by Clumsy Gallery Visitors. Escape, May 31, 2021, www.escape.com.au/top-lists/the-9-most-expensive-things-ever-broken-by-clumsy-gallery-visitors/image-gallery/9ba72970baa2084a71d7c55b8ceed5cc.
Sotheby’s Institute of Art
2018 Cabinets of Curiosities and The Origin of Collecting. Sotheby’s Institute of Art, August 28, 2018, www.sothebysinstitute.com/news-and-events/news/cabinets-of-curiosities-and-the-origin-of-collecting.
Stringer, Katie
2013 The Legacy of Dime Museums and the Freakshow: How the Past Impacts the Present. History News, Autumn 2013, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Autumn 2013), pp. 13-18.
Waxman, Olivia B
2023 Inside the Controversy over the National Museum of the American Latino. Time, September 18, 2023, time.com/6314166/museum-american-latino-controversy/.
Woodman, Spencer, Malia Politzer Delphine Reuter and Namrata Sharma
2023 ‘The Stuff Was Illegally Dug Up’: New York’s Met Museum Sees Reputation Erode over Collection Practices. The Guardian, March 20, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/mar/20/new-york-metropolitan-museum-collection-artifacts-theft.
Yu, Alan
2023 After Recent Backlash, Community Members Weigh in on Mutter Museum’s Future. WHYY PBS, October 18, 2023, whyy.org/articles/mutter-museum-first-community-meeting-backlash/.
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