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Music, Mission, and Monet: My Summer at the Barnes Foundation
Casey Haughin, ‘19 When I applied to intern at The Barnes Foundation this summer, my knowledge of the Barnes was … More
Collecting and Cataloguing the Contemporary
By Thaara Shankar Art surrounds our world, whether we’re inside a gallery or museum, or outside looking at murals and … More
Designing the Social World
By: Stephanie Haenn Entering the Perelman Building of the Philadelphia Art Museum, one instantly recognizes the uniqueness of the select … More

Voices of the Modern Museum: Alex Kalman of the MMuseumm
By Kylie Sharkey Alex Kalman founded the MMuseumm in 2012, an institution that delivers large doses of poeticism in small … More

Voices of Modern Museums: An Introduction
By Kylie Sharkey On January 29th, The Museum & Society department hosted a panel of museum founders titled “Museum Now”. … More
I Like It Like This: Hip-Hop Artist Drake Pairs Music with Contemporary Art
By Nicole Ziegler Entering Sotheby’s, the art world becomes a marketplace defined by its assets. The upscale vendor’s attention to … More

Ara Güler’s Anatolia
By Nicole Ziegler “In Focus: Ara Güler’s Anatolia,” which ran from December 14, 2013 to May 14, 2014 at the … More

Belief + Doubt
Barbara Kruger’s Belief + Doubt, a long-term exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., explores the themes of power, faith, consumerism, and desire through large-scale textual adages. Vinyl sheeting printed in Kruger’s characteristic red, black, and white hues boldly display open-ended axioms, prompting viewers to internalize, question, and dispute deceivingly simple phrases. Belief + Doubt represents a site-specific work, not only through the vinyl sheeting that climbs and envelops the building’s architecture, but also through the strategic placement of the exhibit within the Hirshhorn gift shop and, more broadly, within the Nation’s capital. Kruger’s work reinterprets the role of the museum in modern society, directly addressing and involving the spectator in an environment traditionally reserved for passive observation.