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On White Privilege and Museums

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I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. I never saw comparable adjectives used in the European art labels at the museum.

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What's Your Leisure Identity? Does it Bring You Into Museums?

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Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. For me, that meant photography, which I have done since I was eight, and traveling, which I love. In order to get a book published, I was told I had to have a museum exhibit. And, their weapon is poetry.