Close Readings
Looking closely at the stories museums tell through art, artifacts, and architecture.
Colonel Tye: Fighting for Freedom
Colonel Tye: Fighting for Freedom brings to life the story of Colonel Tye, an enslaved New Jersey man who self-emancipated and joined the British at Sandy Hook.
Seeking Profit and Power: Philadelphia, China Trade, and the Making of America
Celebrating the opening of my exhibition Seeking Profit and Power: Philadelphia, China Trade, and the Making of America
Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Celebrating the publication of Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of Perception, Attention, and Memory
Celebrating the opening of Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of Perception, Attention, and Memory at the Yale Peabody Museum.
Celebrating the Yale Peabody Museum
Celebrating the opening of the Yale Peabody Museum (and my small role in its top-to-bottom renovation).
2023: That’s a wrap!
Looking back at 2023 at SGJ Consulting — and looking forward to the New Year!
People, Place, and Influence: The Collection at 100
As Contributing Curator, I’m delighted to celebrate the opening of People, Place, and Influence: The Collection at 100 at MCNY
We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC
We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC, National Women’s History Museum at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, DC
A Backward Glance at 2022
2022 was a great year for SGJ Consulting. Let’s look back at the year that was!
Of Blizzards, Broadway, and Baseball: Editing a New Almanac for New York City
Part planner, part guidebook, all love letter to NYC.
A Visit to: Pandemic Metropolitan Museum of Art
The normally boisterous Met was quieted by the pandemic, and it's vast atriums missed it's usual crowds.
From the Archive: Judge Magazine makes fun of Ward McAllister
How to laugh at a 19th century cartoon.
A Visit to: Pandemic MOMA
We walked into the gallery and there he was, Jackson Pollock. One: Number 31, 1950. Seeing a star of MOMA’s collection can be like visiting an old friend, and seeing it free of the usual crowds was transformative.
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