James Boon’s “Why Museums Make me Sad,” elaborates on some discussion held in class last week about the exhibition of objects in museums, and how they are portrayed the public. This reminded me of something I saw a few days ago. While doing my daily browsing on my social media, a fellow acquaintance (and huge social activist) posted this article with some very opinionated comments.<\/p>\n
To summarize, Boglarka Balough, a Hungarian journalist, released an article called\u00a0\u201cI Morphed Myself Into Tribal Women To Raise Awareness Of Their Secluded Cultures<\/a>,\u201d in which she photoshops herself to represent different styles and standards of beauty for women in African tribes. There were lots of problems with this project, as what Balough did was a form of blackface and cultural misappropriation. However, her intentions were just to share with the world a culture that she found to be fascinating.<\/p>\n We walk a fine line when exhibiting objects in museums. It is the museum’s purpose to preserve history and to educate and share with the public. However, some of these objects are not always acquired through righteous methods, like pillaging. By exhibiting things in a museum,\u00a0curators “glamorize” these objects, when its origins are ethically questionable. With the application of modern technology, this is something curators must consider even more heavily. Balough physically did not dress or perform blackface- she did so through photoshop, by meshing her face onto the faces of other existing women. Though not to this extent, what we call “fun” museum sites, like the Wig making website, can easily go wrong and offend many people if not done properly.<\/p>\n A lot things are open to interpretation, and thus creates a large spectrum of reaction from the viewers. Though we cannot always “please everyone,” it is crucial to be considerate of all audiences and be mindful of the sensitivity that exists when displaying objects, no matter what they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James Boon’s “Why Museums Make me Sad,” elaborates on some discussion held in class last week about the exhibition of objects in museums, and how they are portrayed the public. … Continue reading “Week 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}