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2023: That’s a wrap! - Small is Beautiful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450071949-EYSJLXZDHOBM7N3PZA5O/IMG_3160.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - New AMNH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450071251-OZGU1FFQ2ZEUBA57MH0K/IMG_3163.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - Old AMNH A bit like walking back in time exiting the new wing and walking into this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450073297-HD0Q37YKRM750JWP8Q53/IMG_3136.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - Charles Darwin: A Life in Letters at NYPL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450074762-TSDQSVO9CF6OY4KTE8A0/IMG_3132.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - NYC Revolutionary Trail, Gotham Center's walking tour An apparently unvetted stop: The sugar house prison window, obscured by a garbage container. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450075472-0EPKIX9468B433MQYCDH/IMG_3036.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - Cushing Center at Yale https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450077033-4CF3UT4H9IIM5HMK5VSV/IMG_1692.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - Denver Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450078794-UKCP33VAVNKQUKGUXVXG/IMG_1690.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - Denver Art Museum Results of a participatory art-making workshop, I assume https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450079459-NZ36QG3O0WJPKYBGZ123/IMG_1688.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - Denver Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450080719-RWU72O2VI6WQAGCIN0HL/IMG_1636.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - Denver Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450081770-3POJB1C7BZGKTE572G3U/IMG_1620.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450082915-H8ENJUBOH7AL67XOGE82/IMG_1593.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - History Colorado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450084383-UQ7CWR3G3X25H32SXWWE/IMG_1563.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - History Colorado's Centennial show A history of the state in 100 objects - very playful and compelling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450085239-CJYBTQFIDDXZ0BEJLBIQ/IMG_1562.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450085950-8M06I82R0TF5HAN6FTJZ/IMG_1549.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450088081-7SR89MZ6E61XHSFKJT21/IMG_1052.jpeg Close Readings - 2023: That’s a wrap! - DC History Center Simple, but very interesting show about panorama photography of DC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1703450088392-YAKAN5PMECDTMWXJMPSC/IMG_1044.jpeg Close Readings - 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We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1686446234095-7VPOV2ATH8JA8B2N1WC0/IMG_0953.jpeg Close Readings - We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1686446235831-6LIED8YPHOCN8043Q21R/IMG_0957.jpeg Close Readings - We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1686487743278-NH7Z9O516XL3NJW2ETN8/IMG_1020.jpeg Close Readings - We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1686487743313-JDVFRAVXKW8GR69TNG9P/IMG_0962.jpeg Close Readings - We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1686487745456-XR5PX8NOKJ1I9KW5I9V3/IMG_0934.jpeg Close Readings - We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1686487746866-JECYFB0GVMCW7P0W9C2O/IMG_0968.jpeg Close Readings - We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1686487745390-ESS393U1CGWO1SSW5PGI/IMG_0935.jpeg Close Readings - We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC https://www.susangailjohnson.com/close-readings/backwardglance2022 monthly 0.5 2023-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672682273473-CHV9XUGVME1AMR7VZOVB/IMG_2604.jpg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Make it stand out My interview with NBC’s Joelle Gargiulo about An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673107267215-SS8BU4N16LE0GUF5V3VY/IMG_7468.jpg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672682876492-U70TU7VMAXAKP9SUX3SQ/IMG_7475.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Intro Text Three paragraphs to introduce Kennedy, suggest how he felt about the arts, and connect him to the Kennedy Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672682759184-W7VVP0ORD9URUGY6ANXF/IMG_7595.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Design by Pentagram https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672693168324-KFN1EG8PBPIBSW8W4T07/IMG_7490.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Kennedy's Biography Told through books he loved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672693168327-U3CA9DCV9156WU6NWD08/IMG_7495.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Inaugural Guests Kennedy invited writers, artists, and cultural leaders to the inauguration—signaling a new engagement with the arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672693403296-L3BBPV2W7GK1RGJ535H6/IMG_7538.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Art and Social Change The exhibition interweaves the issues Kennedy faced—from Civil Rights to the Cold War—with the stories of artists and writers who helped shape his thinking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672682872218-8OLQJDYD8IXDAKX7SXU8/IMG_7510.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Art and The White House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672682872260-JZ3OPHLN9PLS8QKLB39B/IMG_7499.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Media Pioneer Kennedy gave unprecedented access to the media—even letting documentary filmmaker Robert Drew inside the Oval Office during the crisis over the integration of the U. of Alabama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/02b5258d-5dda-4f92-a7a6-5a5ab4622163/IMG_7843.jpg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 Here it is at Books are Magic in Brooklyn! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672683893727-TYO27VURMSDITM6BWTKS/IMG_5739.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Savannah's Plant Hotel Ok, so not a museum, exactly, but some serious specimen, and an impressive installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672683887349-KL5EOQNLBQ97YP2VLFZT/IMG_5807.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, Savannah A very realistic model of the Titanic (reminding me of my project Myth & Memory: Titanic at 100 for the South Street Seaport Museum). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673102953965-29B1YV0P89VT52KDJI9H/IMG_5769.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Savannah College of Art & Design SCAD Story (also not exactly a museum) was a reminder of how impactful experiential story-telling can be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672683881731-X9HG39WV4Y1YH5G5LIQY/IMG_6080.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Philip Guston, MFA Boston In spite of the hype, I found it thoughtful and enlightening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672683881190-V8K1HP31S1UL9XAOCFIE/IMG_6107.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - MFA Boston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673103169474-3A2TMCBZ2L4ZEIBD6W95/IMG_6062.jpg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - MFA Boston Yum? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672683873496-R6JSZGMI8GCOEI3F1QMG/IMG_6148.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Museum of Science, Boston Hello old friends (rats, it was a display of live rats). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672683877758-78TEW78U1IGGZDT7GLJ4/IMG_6128.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Museum of Science, Boston I’m guessing Decolonize this Place doesn’t know about this? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672683895046-F2A3TEK9ERD9E2F4BU4P/IMG_6536.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Fort Frederik Museum, St. Croix One of the most unintentionally surreal installations I’ve ever seen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672683897337-4PNU21X86K5K31TPY7V1/IMG_7382.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Richmond, VA A very dense attempt to bring together different strands of Virginia history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672683898239-6S19CJQ81F339QA1YKWV/IMG_7389.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Richmond, VA Grappling with the “Lost Cause” narrative embedded on the museum’s walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672683899767-SZMTSTD88841IHIE8C4J/IMG_7394.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Richmond, VA All very good questions! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673105462748-MNQU5VTNVCZLW8HEG8ZE/IMG_7042.jpg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Smithsonian A childhood visit to this space inspired my love of museums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672693710068-X60EWMGNKGRHJS2K11ZR/IMG_7323.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - A Girl's Life, Smithsonian, NMAH Overheard: Husband: “I don’t want to go in here, I’d rather go to the man part of the museum.” Wife: “the whole museum is the man part of the museum.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673312850582-9ZOQAW31QBG001144QPA/IMG_7321.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - A Girl's Life Kind of a worst-case scenario for a visitor feedback interactive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672693712203-VUA08VVWLYUVAT3PKZ04/IMG_7039.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - International Spy Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672693715779-H8RSJ1CE2Z58WKABQNU1/IMG_7026.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Americans, Smithsonian NMAI Finally got to see this must-see for folks interested in how to tell complicated stories in an engaging way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673104192933-27O5AXB45T0154CK5IPI/IMG_6944.jpg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Planet Word Hard to capture how fun this space is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673104293048-FOY0FJRK82AXWXIWLIQU/IMG_7299.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Presente, Smithsonian NMAH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673104583925-NN9WALT56XSEOW5FCX0B/IMG_6725.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673105364016-QDLJJNMSV1759B7XXFUX/IMG_6689.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Smithsonian NMAAHC I will admit to being so overwhelmed that my inside pictures are terrible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694293944-0HYQ7RFX6O4ARF3UAMKC/IMG_0097.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Merchant's House Museum, NYC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694293227-U9DWBTDRHYIIPL3DVPMQ/IMG_7722.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Duke Riley at the Brooklyn Museum A favorite artist in a favorite space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694296760-3UI0CD91Z7ABC5YOT67H/IMG_7706.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Duke Riley at the Brooklyn Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694301344-QN4BHRGPOIMNK0BNNIZU/IMG_7696.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Duke Riley at the Brooklyn Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673104892980-A7BF75O5YYH40CLC2GDU/IMG_7720.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Duke Riley at the Brooklyn Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694306950-4IOWJ8K08C09H5D8O1IP/IMG_7646.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Wolfgang Tillmans at MOMA Wondering what the registrars thought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694309731-8U6Q1X2S9SS8ALMFBLOK/IMG_7265.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Kimonos at the Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673104323339-TKBUGGSYA0IK619697KB/IMG_7261.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Jackie Robinson Museum One of this year’s projects was writing and content development for these “column” interactives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694313838-XF02N5KNAR1U7J0N8AQQ/IMG_7158.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Chroma at the Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694316976-UYJMGHHJY1GADLCDUIP1/IMG_7141.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Afro Futurism at the Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694325420-RUGHTAPQK5ED300TU2G4/IMG_7176.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694317572-FRZ8AEBZ19YVOJTATQPK/IMG_7138.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - In America at the Met Perhaps a little over the top? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694320667-ZGM2SQ7SS4B0GF3YHML8/IMG_7119.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - In America at the Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673105147301-R1IX66V6TGEOG8K5WFFT/IMG_6901.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Whitney Biennial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694332052-IZJJHJSBDVNTD872M85R/IMG_6832.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Matisse's Red Room at MOMA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694329032-F274ZYA7K71U6FXH62SU/IMG_6865.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Matisse's Red Room at MOMA Very un-MOMA-like show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694336172-WHENCWOMQ9GIN3WCSV3G/IMG_6815.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694336036-L5LM875Z0C8VV0XE0SQ1/IMG_6312.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - There and Back at the NJ Veterans Memorial Vietnam Era Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694339954-5LEKV362HDYAJ4B2INCY/IMG_6169.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Ma Bell at Princeton's Morvan House Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694344780-OQ7VPGNVA1ER1ZSGMQ67/IMG_6018.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - NYPL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694346013-BYHMDEE13QAQM2JAK3QD/IMG_6013.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Faith Ringgold at the New Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1672694348894-V7U30UJRB984P0YA4JQ5/IMG_5945.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - The Ebony Kitchen at the Africa Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673105145692-8ZQEUV7JW3QVZUJVJ5VV/IMG_0130.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - Sandy Hook's History House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1673105145509-MELB76MCBLNP1VPKHLD3/IMG_7625.jpeg Close Readings - A Backward Glance at 2022 - High Water Mark on the South Street Seaport Museum Memories of Hurricane Sandy. https://www.susangailjohnson.com/close-readings/in-the-rearview-mirror-2021 monthly 0.5 2022-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/455cbe88-f5fd-4ad3-a26a-fa90c9d4ad09/IMG_5180.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Make it stand out Obligatory selfie in the super shiny Airstream at MOMA’s Automania in August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640799119572-XU1Z6DGE7QP0SX9KEK3O/IMG_5290.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Bell Works (designed by Eero Saarinen), Holmdel, New Jersey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640799226015-MZ2PE6RCD9XGNIJMFYGV/IMG_4710.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Ok, it's my back deck, but still. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640799435613-5DT5CHIOC6CUW87GLDN0/IMG_5112.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - At the renovated NYPL branch on 42nd St. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640797299782-22208FN387Q8JX6Q9GQH/IMG_4389.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Pandemic MOMA was almost empty. But it gave me a chance to think about one work of art in the context of the building itself. Read the blog here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640797969824-ICH9R6CHF3AV79MXMOVA/IMG_4467.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Pandemic MET was very quiet. So I got to thinking about sounds and crowds, and how a place like the Met just isn’t the same without them. Click to read the blog here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640798098608-ZNSB23F2FNB5LD9TFCZT/IMG_4730.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Grief and Grievance at the New Museum was powerful and sad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640798197383-Q5PZ7EPTPFV5S2OVUZQC/IMG_5200.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Automania at MOMA was a bit of a mess. Not a Ford in sight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640798332195-KYU9ZOZXL8AI4QEB0UF7/IMG_5271.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Bound for Versailles at the Morgan was beautiful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640804059440-AD7G724XYQCPZWKJJ0S0/IMG_5538.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - NYPL's Treasures show was wonderful. Exactly what you hope a treasures show would be, some obscure things, some stunning things, some big, some tiny, some objects, some books, some manuscripts. All beautifully installed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640819505537-SV1PMVNJ4L7EQKJ432TI/IMG_5380.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - AMNH's reinstalled minerals and gemstones gallery was jaw dropping. And pulled off a neat trick of being informative, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640819921798-PB3E4DNC4U2XACM0UMPY/IMG_5403.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - PS - AMNH should really think about doing a little dusting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640801161898-W48OP293Z6X8JEZ9CV8E/IMG_1311.JPEG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Found at McNally Jackson, Seaport https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640801169789-O7DEE1CH1IW1K8EP26FF/IMG_5476.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Found at Books are Magic, Brooklyn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640801331491-FJNN2AVV3ZHWZBPQWNYG/IMG_5570.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Found at the Morgan Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640801185068-FPTVKLLBTHXWVRQLL264/IMG_5571.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Found at Barnes & Nobel, Manhattan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640801575123-FQQV1P2D62Q8P88QNLYR/IMG_5577.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Found at Kinokuniya, Bryant Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640801554892-8XZAJGE8BKL9A7WIQST0/image_123927839.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Found at Museum of the City of New York, East Harlem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640802397576-AZLZL3ZJ6U4LD8UIB3WL/IMG_5047.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640802426178-71E719C4YUJ2ALBVJBKT/IMG_4967.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Music is at the heart of Memphis history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640802445280-P4CTAHWI18XW1212CONU/IMG_4975.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640802467636-XJU6HR6CWE2Z96YMPULX/IMG_4982.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - But so is segregation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640802391328-W8IHCWR80PEDA51I7ZR7/IMG_5023.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - The National Civil Rights Museum was very dramatic. The museum creates an immersive, emotional experience through theatrical props and lighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640802391656-57DQC0O92DJHXXAGYJ0E/IMG_5040.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640802394174-64X4J9HDX10GV91RF2H3/IMG_5044.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - But I wondered about King's motel room. Did the theatricality of the rest of the museum contribute to, or take away from the visitor’s experience of authenticity? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640802616754-PFSF2KNSSHQNHIUZLXSL/IMG_5090.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - The mighty Mississippi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640802657566-ANOGC6HMC7Q40KGFRQP7/IMG_5086.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - The Ornamental Metal Museum is a delightful surprise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640802644430-R9HJF7GUFU04Y5ARAMU5/IMG_5100.jpg Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1640802388078-3QQ4O9ZILQA6901RLTI8/IMG_4998.JPG Close Readings - In the Rearview Mirror: 2021 - Even the hotel was part museum. https://www.susangailjohnson.com/close-readings/of-blizzards-broadway-and-baseball-editing-a-new-almanac-for-new-york-city monthly 0.5 2021-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1631910483223-XWP67EEOF7VRXFCF7JY5/IMG_5459.jpeg Close Readings - Of Blizzards, Broadway, and Baseball: Editing a New Almanac for New York City - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.susangailjohnson.com/close-readings/a-visit-to-pandemic-metropolitan-museum-of-art monthly 0.5 2021-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1615209820615-574V7HGPKU3QM5FVFB73/IMG_4467.JPG Close Readings - A Visit to: Pandemic Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1615294311838-FEUFLXKS19Z546O97WPU/IMG_4462.jpg Close Readings - A Visit to: Pandemic Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1615212539829-WRJWDFUNCX878KWWSGRF/nypl.digitalcollections.510d47d9-9cbc-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg Close Readings - A Visit to: Pandemic Metropolitan Museum of Art Great Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, postcard, c. 1902-1931, New York Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1615212912947-K4LVUR072D7MOWEQXKOA/service-pnp-ppmsca-27700-27747v.jpg Close Readings - A Visit to: Pandemic Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum trustee & president, financier J.P. Morgan seems to have taken Choate literally, filling both the Met and his own library with Europe’s finest treasures, paid for with American capital. 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Celebrating America 250, the exhibition is the largest mounted by the museum in decades. It features rarely seen objects from the museum’s collection as well as important loans. Learn more on the Museum’s website here. Read about it in Antiques and the Arts Weekly here. Hear about it on WHYY here. More on my blog here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/f852cfb7-2fa9-4905-9598-b807c82058ca/1.jpg Selected Projects - Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega Giles and the Museum of the City of New York, 2025 As publications project manager and copyeditor, I was delighted to work with editor and curator Monxo López on this examination and celebration of the work of Manny Vega, an exceptional and sometimes overlooked artist who brings spirituality to keen observation of his city through monumental public mosaics, intimate drawings, and intricate beadwork. Purchase the book here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/9f1fbb7f-3557-4751-9dd4-eb4054c2c849/IMG_7785.jpg Selected Projects - An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2026 Abbeville Press, 2025 An Almanac of New York City is back! Again! Part guidebook, part planner, all love letter to NYC. To my astonishment and pride, it’s even on sale at MoMA! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/37febb0a-643f-4106-bfb4-71dbb042ea85/IMG_0649.jpg Selected Projects - Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of Perception, Attention, and Memory Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, 2024 As exhibition developer I was honored to work with exhibition curator Daniel Colón-Ramos, assistant curator April Pruitt, exhibition designers Isometric, my long-time friend and collaborator Camille Czerkowicz, and the amazing Peabody staff including Kailen Rogers and Chris Norris to bring a complex topic to life. The exhibition explores how our brains work through a humanistic lens — challenging our perceptions, re-framing our attention, and triggering our memories through hands-on interactives, animals, artifacts, and artwork. Learn more on my blog here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/9ff83ad7-2f83-431b-b352-a8f097503fca/Attachment.jpeg Selected Projects - An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2025 Abbeville Press, 2024 An Almanac of New York City is back! Part guidebook, part planner, all love letter to NYC. The book is chock full of 365 events and historic anniversaries of all shapes and sizes, 52 all-new quotes about the city, NYC books and movies for every month, a new animal friend, and more! I hope it helps you plan 2025! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/d5b4c195-4459-4427-bd35-3b6ae88c46f3/IMG_8493.jpg Selected Projects - Yale Peabody Museum New Haven, Connecticut, 2024 - ongoing During this multi-year project, I assisted The Yale Peabody Museum with the the text panels and labels for their top-to-bottom renovation. As “text wrangler” my job was to help each gallery’s curatorial team write text that fit the museum’s format, while at the same time was accessible to general museum goers. Let’s just say it involved a lot of mispronouncing dinosaur names (so curators knew where to put pronunciation guides) and lots of “what do you mean by that?” questions from me. The renovated museum spans three floors and covers content from dinosaurs and ancient aquatic life to human evolution, anthropology, rocks and gemstones, history, and life sciences. Watch Al Roker get a first look on the Today Show here. Read about the renovation in the New York Times here. Learn more and see more photos on my blog here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/3d6ecbe0-b013-4aed-a5d9-34dbf022286b/IMG_3622.jpeg Selected Projects - People, Place, and Influence: The Collection at 100 Museum of the City of New York, 2023 As Consulting Curator, I contributed an institutional history of the Museum of the City of New York in celebration of the museum’s 100-year anniversary — and a deep dive into the complexities and contradictions at the heart of 100 years of exhibitions. Read more on the blog here. Learn about the exhibition at MCNY here. See a report from NY1 here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/4f2f701b-617b-4878-8621-6813bbc1f18b/Screenshot+2023-12-12+at+10.17.50+AM.png Selected Projects - An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2024 Abbeville Press, 2023 An Almanac of New York City is back! Part guidebook, part planner, all love letter to NYC. The book is full of events of all shapes and sizes – from Jazz at Lincoln Center to the Bronx Night Market; fantastic quotes about the city, from Berenice Abbott to Joan Didion. Book and movies for every month, historical dates, and more! I hope it helps you plan 2024! Buy the book at a local bookstore, Abbeville Press or Amazon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/8e695df4-03ce-42ba-b2fd-fbd6ad2489c2/IMG_0936.jpeg Selected Projects - We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC National Women’s History Museum, at JFK Memorial Library, Washington, DC, 2023 - 2024 We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC is the first-ever exhibition created by the National Women’s History Museum. Located in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington DC — the only library designed by Mies van der Rohe — the exhibition explores Black Feminism through the lives of DC women — from Anna Julia Cooper to Eleanor Holmes Norton — who fought for equality for themselves, their communities, and women everywhere. As project manager and exhibition developer, I coordinated the exhibition working with exhibition designers Tessellate Studio, guest curators, and museum staff to create an one-of-a-kind experience for the library and museum visitors alike. Winner of the MUSE Gold Award for Experiential and Immersive - Exhibition Experience, 2023 Read the review by Alexis P. Williams in the The Washington Post. Read the column by Petula Dvorak in the The Washington Post. Read the review by Marybeth Gasman in Forbes. See me chat with Fox 5 DC’s Gwen Tolbart. Learn about the exhibition and explore it online. See more photos on my blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/c8967f05-2c19-4eb6-8891-186c83f6a215/IMG_7843.jpg Selected Projects - An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2023 Abbeville Press, 2022 An Almanac of New York City is back! Part guidebook, part planner, all love letter to NYC. The book is full of events of all shapes and sizes – from the New York City Ballet to Red Hook’s Barnacle Parade; fantastic quotes about the city, from Duke Ellington to Jay-Z; and delightful historic anniversaries. New for this year — a book and a movie for every month! I hope it helps you plan 2023! Buy the book at Abbeville Press or Amazon. See my interview with Joelle Garguilo on NBC Live. Read my interview with Time Out New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/206d19f8-1e75-4e49-83e2-428db1472abf/IMG_7499.jpeg Selected Projects - Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2022—ongoing Art and Ideals explores the role the arts played in how Kennedy lived, governed, and understood American democracy. Working with Ileen Sheppard Gallagher of ISG Productions and Abbott Miller of Pentagram, I wrote an exhibition script that wove together Kennedy’s support of the arts, the cold war, and civil rights. Learn about the exhibition. Read the review by Fritz Hahn in The Washington Post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1631752090132-PQZN7E9AYFD9XWXSRP5J/IMG_5459.jpeg Selected Projects - An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2022 Abbeville Press, 2021 An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2022 is part guidebook, part planner, all love letter to NYC. The book is full of events of all shapes and sizes – from the Met Opera to Brooklyn’s Atlantic Antic; fantastic quotes about the city, from Le Corbusier to Zadie Smith; and delightful historic anniversaries, from the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge to the birth of hip hop. As editor, I pulled together the events, dates, and quotes, and wrote blurbs for every month. I hope you keep it handy as 2022 unfolds! Buy the book at Abbeville Press or Amazon. Read my interview with Time Out New York. Read about 10 events for 2022 in Untapped Cities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1589735597750-SQ1MBZ3658G5LP4Z0BS6/BLF-2019-0215-JackieRobinson-0004-sm.jpg Selected Projects - In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait of a Baseball Legend Museum of the City of New York, 2019 This exhibition, which I curated in collaboration with photography curator Sean Corcoran, celebrated the life and legacy of baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson through previously unpublished photographs from LOOK magazine taken in 1949 and 1953. My script told the story through Jackie’s own words, drawn from autobiographical articles he wrote for LOOK. Sopan Deb called it “a small yet powerful show” in the New York Times. Read the review by Sopan Deb in the New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1591982420080-JWVKKYPSHK46GQK24TBA/CROTON_03.jpg Selected Projects - To Quench the Thirst of New Yorkers: The Croton Aqueduct at 175 Museum of the City of New York, 2017 Celebrating the anniversary of the Croton Aqueduct, a key piece of 19th-century infrastructure that brought fresh, clean drinking water to New York City, I curated an exhibition of drawings by a young engineer, Fayette B. Tower, and commissioned photographer Nathan Kensinger to reinterpret the same structures today. The artworks were keyed to a map of the aqueduct traced on the gallery floor. Read the review by Sam Roberts in the New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1589487553334-RF28OAUUU18D7HKR4OT5/08_MCNY_LP_6048_cp.jpg Selected Projects - New York at Its Core Museum of the City of New York, 2016-present This award-winning, critically acclaimed look at New York City’s history from 1609-today is presented on three galleries of the museum’s first floor and told through dynamic interactives, original artifacts, and the stories of individual New Yorkers. As Project Director, I coordinated three curatorial teams, a multi-million-dollar budget, multi-year schedule, and three key design consultants. Read the review and a preview by Sam Roberts in the New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1589486561073-Q0LCUK7CJUYFR4WYIX5Q/IMG_3582.jpg Selected Projects - New York: Treasures of the Museum of the City of New York Abbeville Press, 2020 Working with the museum’s entire collections department and author Steven H. Jaffe, in my role as Director of Publications I conceptualized and produced this Tiny Folio for Abbeville Press, featuring 250 highlights from the museum’s collection that tell New York’s monumental story in a bite-sized package. Buy the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1591721037717-G8XXG0QLG9WK4OT3899W/IMG_3569.jpg Selected Projects - New York at Its Core: 400 Years of New York City History Museum of the City of New York, 2017 I edited exhibition text to create the companion publication to the exhibition, a book Sam Roberts called “a perfect keepsake” in the New York Times. Lavishly illustrated with more than 400 artifacts and photographs, the book sold 2,500 copies in two years and went into a second printing in 2019. Read the review by Sam Roberts in the New York Times. Buy the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1590441449161-201LHHI7ZIKWZJSP68ZP/IMG_3572.jpg Selected Projects - City/Game: Basketball in New York Museum of the City of New York, 2020 For this project, I oversaw the exhibition catalog in my role as Director of Publications and served as project manager for the exhibition in my role as Senior Curatorial Associate. Working with editor William C. Rhoden, graphic designers We Should Do It All, 13 authors, many wonderful photographers, and co-publishers at Rizzoli, we brought the story of New York City’s unique basketball culture to life on the page. And, working with curator Lilly Tuttle, We Should Do It All, and the museum’s collection staff, we brought the excitement of the game into the gallery. Buy the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab2fe4c5d3301f526d849e/1594051605137-P2R5XXWINQD4025948NK/Statue%2Bof%2BLiberty.jpg Selected Projects - The New Colossus Stories, for the Museum of the City of New York Website, 2017 Noticing the prevalence of images of the Statue of Liberty and quotations from Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus” in protests against President Trump’s immigration policies, I researched and wrote a piece on the origins of the poem, and the meaning of the statue for generations of immigrants who came through New York harbor. An original manuscript of “The New Colossus” was on view at the museum at the time, and served as a basis for this exploration. 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