Resources

A conference and lecture review on the Responsibility for Accessibility.  Reid discusses the responsibility of museums to their visitors and how museum professionals respond to this challenge.

A book review of Art/Museums: International Relations Where We Least Expect It by Christine Sylvester.  The book engages many well-known complex current events within the art world which Sylvester interprets with fresh insight. 

A review of Connecting Communities from the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, MI. Connecting Communities, explores issues of immigration, specifically in Dearborn, Detroit and Hamtramck, three neighboring communities in southeastern Michigan.  Local college students collected oral histories from nine local immigrants from the Arab World, Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia who settled in the Detroit area.

The Newark Museum commissioned Yinka Shonibare MBE to create Party Time:  Re-Imagine America to animate the Ballantine House in new ways as part of the Museum’s Centennial anniversary. The exhibit is loud, fantastic, and fun, breathing new life into what may normally be considered a decorous, but empty room.

A review of Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center, an exhibition that follows the intricate shaping of today’s housing crisis in the U.S.