Save the Detroit Institute of Arts
Dear Readers, I’ve lived in Detroit on and off for the last 25 years. I’ve been to the DIA countless times and the collection is never anything less than amazing. The staff is… Read More
Category Archive: Curating
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Léo Caillard: Art Games
— Dear Readers, This morning I was casually catching-up on my contemporary art news over coffee and MuteMath and I came across Ooh la la lovely’s post on photographer Léo Caillard’s “Art Games.”… Read More
Social Media Curation: Why Do You Share?
To curate… “to pull together, sift through, and select for presentation, as music or website content.” This definition, as opposed to the original verb relative to museum staff, is worth discussing. More often… Read More
![[John Sanford], 184-? / unidentified photographer. Photographic print : 1 item : daguerreotype ; 7 x 6 cm. Elihu Vedder papers, 1804-1969 (bulk 1840-1923). Archives of American Art.](http://ashleyfrick.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/aaa_veddelih_12102-daguerreotype1.jpg?w=290)
Daguerreotypes: Beautiful and Stoic or Morbid but Fascinating?
Dear Readers, One upon a time, I was an intern at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. I worked as a curatorial assistant in the Department of Manuscripts, which basically means that I… Read More
![[Yoko Ono, John Lennon and Andy Warhol], 1971 June 5 / David Bourdon, photographer. Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 11 x 14 cm. David Bourdon papers, 1953-1998. Archives of American Art.](http://ashleyfrick.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/aaa_bourdavi_21439-bourdon-warhol21.jpg?w=290)
A Day in the Life of a Curatorial Intern
Dear Readers, During my first week as an intern at the Smithsonian, I wrote this post. Keeping it short and sweet, I wanted to highlight some of the things I was pulling out… Read More
