I Tried to Recreate My Grandmother’s Curry From Memory and Failed in a Way I Didn’t Expect
by I remembered every ingredient and still somehow made something that tasted like a stranger’s kitchen I stood in my kitchen this evening surrounded by every …
Colonial Literature and a Very Uncolonial King: Reading Henry Is Back
Stephanie Curry on comedy, history, and a monarch who refuses to update Reading Henry Is Back against a backdrop of eighteenth century colonial literature turned …
Visitors Can Submit Their Own Independence Day Photos To Become Part Of The Actual Exhibition And I Have Never Seen A Museum Do This Quite Like This
A diary entry on participatory curation and history that keeps genuinely adding new pages while you watch Monday, An Invitation I Did Not Expect From …
Original Revolutionary Documents Are Flying To Eight Cities This Year And I Have Already Mapped My Route To Meet Them
A diary entry on a genuinely ambitious traveling exhibition and a Bicentennial tradition finally revived Monday, A Tour I Have Been Tracking Since The First …
The Smithsonian Needed Two Hundred And Fifty Objects And An Entire Museum To Tell This Story Properly
A diary entry on scale, ambition, and a single powerful idea holding an enormous exhibition together Monday, An Exhibition That Required The Whole Building The …
The Founding Documents Got New Neighbours In The Rotunda For The First Time Since Nineteen Fifty Two
A diary entry on a genuinely significant curatorial expansion and what it says about how the story keeps growing Monday, A Change Seventy Years In …
The British National Archives Is Telling Its Own Version Of How It Lost Us And I Flew Over Specifically To See Their Angle
A diary entry on a rare Dunlap broadside, an unexpected perspective, and a genuinely different way of narrating the same revolution Monday, A Trip Across …
America Turns Two Hundred And Fifty This Year And Every Archive In The Country Seems To Be Opening Its Vault At Once
A diary entry on the semiquincentennial exhibition boom and a scholar’s genuinely overwhelming season Monday, A Year I Have Been Waiting My Entire Career For …
An Exhibition Finally Admitted What Its Own Archive Leaves Out And I Have Never Respected A Curatorial Choice More
A diary entry on honest archival gaps, whose voices survive, and a rare moment of institutional humility Monday, A Wall Label That Genuinely Stopped Me …
Phillis Wheatley Peters Sits Alongside Franklin And Paine In A New Print Culture Exhibition And That Placement Is The Entire Point
A diary entry on print culture, canon formation, and a curatorial choice years overdue Monday, A Placement Worth Naming Explicitly A university special collections exhibition …