For our midterm we had to choose two exhibitions and compare and contrast them. We chose the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Chinese in America and Cindy Sherman’s temporary exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Although very different, they share the same main theme: identity. Either as a group of people in a foreign country or as [...]

  This week’s task was to visit the temporary exhibition “Beyond Planet Earth”, at the Museum of Natural History. The exhibition focus on human exploration on space – what has been done and the perspectives for the future. The content is divided in topics: history of space exploration, displayed in a timeline manner (which I must add I’m glad it [...]

  This week’s assignment was to visit Enrico David’s exhibition at the New Museum. It is not exactly inside the New Museum’s building, but in their new space, Studio 231. It is a smaller space, that feels more like a gallery than a big museum setting. The main idea for this particular exhibition appears to be presenting the work of [...]

  On our second visit for the Interpretive Exhibition Design class we were asked to visit both the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins and the Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites. Both have very clear purposes, which are expressed on their titles: the first one is dedicated to the evolution of men (meaning our species, the homo sapiens) and the second [...]

  On this first visit we were asked to observe the new wing at the Metropolitan Museum. It was supposed to be the Islamic one, which opened in November 2011 – I briefly remembered someone said something about Islam in class. However, the American Wing just opened – two weeks ago – and when I visited the museum and asked [...]