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... Chapter 6 asks how exhibitions and exhibit design might help rewrite popular histories and the values and assumptions with which they are enmeshed. It considers this question in the postapartheid South African context and in the History Galleries of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African...

... History was front and center at the quadricentennial commemorations in 1954. This chapter explores the different constructions of São Paulo’s history that emerged during the IV Centenário, including the elaborate Historical Exposition in the newly inaugurated Ibirapuera Park, popular radio...

... history exhibits ethno-racial formations massing techniques Smithsonian emotional pacing ...

... exhibits that foreground cultural meaning and/or difference as ethnographic. Two extended analyses—of a long-term natural history exhibit and of the museum-like display featured at a Hawaiian resort hotel—use the framework outlined in Chapter 2 to analyze their representation and the values and hierarchies...

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... The Birth of a Nation D.W. Griffith Hampton Epilogue The New Era exhibition history ...

... exhibition genres and design African museums ethnography and history Kenya South Africa ...

... suggests that dynamics between ethnography and history in exhibits and related design resources play out differently in the two countries, as do visitor expectations and understandings. exhibition genres and design African museums ethnography and history Kenya South Africa ...

... histories should enter public spaces as sound installations and exhibitions more often. She discusses recent artistic interventions as well as her own exhibition of historical recordings in Hamburg (2019). Using an understanding of echo as a concept for thinking with sound in/as histories, the author argues...

... Appendix A reviews how exhibition design has figured in scholarly literature in museum studies, design history, design thinking, and design anthropology, finding that it largely has been treated as invisible. These design-related fields have mostly overlooked the entwined workings of exhibit...

... This essay examines the history and impact of the long-running traveling exhibition 30 Americans, which has been seen in over a dozen different cities since it was conceived in 2008. Curated from the extensive holdings of contemporary art owned by the Rubell family, the show includes works...

... In chapter 1 the author records the impact of a traveling exhibit on American slavery at a museum in Richmond, Virginia. The visit is part of a grant enabling faculty at the college where she teaches to expand and create curriculum about race and race history in the United States. Photographs...

... Royal Courts showed in museums of art and natural history alike and was in part developed collaboratively with contemporary maharaja families. The chapter also considers how visitor expectations are built over lifetimes and how exhibit design can echo and reverberate into other exhibits, in part...

... Hall shows how making artworks, creating new archives, curating exhibitions, writing new art histories, and reimagining the museum are all part of the “critical work” required to unsettle and disturb the grain of official culture and established museum historiography. museum...

..., and working-class people who comprised the local performative economy. The project drew on life stories to bridge divides and shape debates about gentrification through oral history “listening parties,” mediated neighborhood dialogues, a multimedia exhibit, and radio documentaries. oral history...

... This essay was the introduction to the catalog of the exhibition Trade Routes: History and Geography; 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor in Johannesburg in 1997. The author and his cocurators attempted to map the impacts of economic globalization on artistic practice in Africa...

..., and then in Munich, Milan, and Johannesburg. The essay discusses several of the five hundred photographs, films, books, magazines, newspapers, and archival materials displayed in the exhibition to illuminate the history of apartheid in South Africa as seen through the eyes of a wide range of local and international...