Month: January 2017

I asked friends to recommend short, affecting pieces on encounters with racism at museums. They had some amazing suggestions. I couldn’t

  In Do Museums Still Need Objects, Steven Conn argues that as objects in museums gradually lost their visual and epistemological

Conn’s provocatively titled piece laments the shifting projects of institutions, and the loss of an emphasis on materiality as institutions

In the reading ‘material/materiality’, Hong emphasises that material is defined by the physicality of the material itself, and that it

A formal understanding of material has been debated among philosophers and scholars time and time again. JeeHee Hong writes that

The physical objects from the special collection that my group handled were photographs and included some negatives. One folder was

During our visit to the Special Collections in Young Library, my group was assigned to a box that contained massive

Materiality, for Kant, was distinguishable from substance as it sought to explain more than just an object’s appearance. It is

As others have pointed out, the concept of materiality (which was touched upon by JeeHee Hong) is a concept that