Panel 5: Race and exhibition design

(1-11 September 2020)
Emily Mazzola (University of Pittsburgh, US)
Exhibition design and the politics of identity in the First Ladies Hall of the United States National Museum
How do you represent the body of a woman who also represents a nation? When Cassie Mason Myers Julian James and Rose Gouverneur Hoes established the First Ladies Hall of the United States National Museum in 1912, designing mannequins that would honor the presidency, the country, and the women of the White House was their greatest aesthetic and conceptual challenge.. more…
Patricio del Real (Harvard University, US)
Staging Brasilidade at MoMA
The exhibition “Brazil Builds” is credited with launching the international celebration of Brazil’s modern architecture and the culture of brasilidade. Staged at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943, this groundbreaking show was a collaborative affair that brought together diverse actors and institutions in the United States and Brazil at a critical moment during the Second World War. more…
Jacklyn Lacey (American Museum of Natural History, US)
Putting Joseph Towles’ name in the credit line: institutional racism at the American Museum of Natural History
When the Hall of Man in Africa (now the Hall of African Peoples) opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1968, it was highly acclaimed. Critics and audiences hailed its efforts to tell African histories removed from the leering gaze of Eurocentric racial hierarchies. more…
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