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At the Met’s “Manet/Degas” exhibition, museum labels blend in. Photo by Liao Pan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images “Most people visiting a museum really want to learn something, so ...
There are labels about Kitty, but then there are labels about what we would call, in a museum, a kind of comparative material—so, her friends in the garniture, her parents, different characters ...
The writer Christine Coulson spent much of her 25-year tenure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art composing wall labels for the museum’s galleries.
A museum dating to around 530 B.C.E. is considered the world’s earliest, far before the "cabinets of curiosity" of later European collectors.
Gabfest Reads: A Woman’s Life in Museum Wall Labels. Christine Coulson’s new book, “One Woman Show,” the life of the rich-and-beautiful Kitty is told in 75-word labels.
Book Review: Clever new novel uses museum wall labels to narrate life story of rich American woman Christine Coulson worked for the Metropolitan Museum for 25 years. Ann Levin.
The new director of the British Museum has said he will not add politically correct labels to exhibits. Dr Nicholas Cullinan, a 46-year-old art historian and curator, left his post as director of ...
Carpinteria historian, educator and former editor of the Citrus Label Society’s bi-monthly newsletter Jim Campos is the ...
Christine Coulson, who spent 25 years working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has written a short, clever novel that tells the story of a woman over the course of her life in a series of museum ...