Month: April 2018

• Labeling Ancient and Modern Slavery within Museums

  

  Over at Hyperallergic this week, I had an essay come out that was about four months in the making. It discusses how and why museums should use labels–those little tituli to the side–in order to engage with America’s history of slavery. The piece was inspired by a trip to the Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA) over the December […]

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  April 26, 2018

  Art and Graphics, color, digital humanities, diversity, hyperallergic, Labor and Work, Uncategorized

  3D modeling, ancient slavery, digital humanities, early american slavery, hyperallergic, museum labels, museum studies, roman, titus kaphar, worcester art museum

• Before MAGA: Mithras, Phrygian Caps, and the Politics of Headwear

  

  My latest piece for Hyperallergic addresses the long history of red caps as symbols of politics, ethnicity, and identity. From Mithras to the Smurfs, there is a rich history of using identifying hats. This article was also an opportunity for me to post some photos of Mithras I have taken over the years–and to include a few […]

  sarahemilybond

  April 9, 2018

  ancient clothing, Art and Graphics, color, diversity, hyperallergic, Uncategorized, women

  amazons, ancient history, color, fashion history, greek history, hats, hyperallergic, Iranian history, MAGA, mithras, phrygian caps, polychromy, Roman History