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 Events News Faculty Research
As an assignment, each student in the class Anthropology in and of Museums (taught by Dr. Haidy Geismar at the NYU Program in Museum Studies in Spring 2009) was given an image to research in the Special collections of the American Museum of Natural History. Students were encouraged to think at first purely from the image: what could they learn not only from the content of the image, but the way in which it has been annotated, catalogued, curated, and archived. Following these leads, each student conducted original, collections-based research into their images. The results can be found here: http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/hg26/amnhphotographs/. In 2008 Dr. Bruce Altshuler published the first part of a two-volume work documenting major historical art exhibitions, Salon to Biennial, Volume 1: 1863-1959 (Phaidon Press). In addition, he spoke on the work of Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art; was a member of a delegation of U.S. museum educators that presented workshops in Shanghai and Changsha, China, and lectured at the first Chinese museum education symposium at the National Art Museum of China (Beijing); spoke in Brazil at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteroi as a U.S. State Department lecturer; and delivered the Sir Roland Penrose Memorial Lecture at Tate Modern in London, the Donald Charlton Lecture at the University of Warwick (UK), and the Wampler Distinguished Professorship Lecture at James Madison University.
Dr. Haidy Geismar (Museum Studies and Anthropology) and Dr. Robin Nagle (Draper Program) -- MAKING A MUSEUM: Materializing Regimes of
Value with the New York City Department of Sanitation -- first a course, then a museum. An article "Artifact Piece, Revisited: Erica Lord at the National Museum of the American Indian, April 3-5, 2008," written by Dr. Jennifer Stampe, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Museum Studies, was published on line at http://www.materialworldblog.com/. A review of the exhibition "Indigenous Motivations: Recent Acquisitions from the National Museum of the American Indian," written collaboratively by students in Haidy Geismar's spring 2007 class "Topics in Museums Studies: Anthropology in and of Museums" (G49.3330), was published October 3, 2007 in the online edition of Museum Anthropology Review.
Glenn Wharton is currently working with MoMA to develop a preservation for their new media collections and the Dia Art Foundation to conduct a General Conservation Survey of the Dia:Beacon museum. In addition, he is working on a book that investigates the potential for conservation as a tool for excavating public memory and stimulating critical thinking about the past. He performed an ethnography and a "participatory" conservation project in North Kohala, Hawaii, in which local residents engaged in conservation research, decision making and intervention. Through dialogue and community activities, new relationships with the material past were forged while negotiating its representation through a monument in Kamehameha I.
Page updated: 21 April 2009
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