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“They made a museum that among other things would capture the artifacts of what they imagined might become an endangered species: the diaspora Jewish community”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 January 2016
We changed our name, dropping “Diaspora” and calling ourselves The Museum of the Jewish...
Tagged Disaspora, Israel, Museum |
Museums

“The American memorial style is powerful as an engine of pathos, but is obviously limited as a language of representation”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 January 2015
On the one hand, no agreed-on figural style can any longer represent a society...
Tagged Memorials |
Museums

“Minimalism….has become the most potent language of the elegiac and the evocative”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 September 2014
Minimalism, which began as the model of an inexpressive style, a rejection of symbol...
Tagged Architecture, Memorials |
Museums

“Those who lack faith in fixed order and stable places have a harder time building monuments that must…be monolithically stable and certain”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 August 2014
Those who lack faith in fixed order and stable places have a harder time...
Tagged Monuments, Museums |
Museums

“Liberal cities have not found it self-evident that their massacres should be enshrined in memorials and museums”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 July 2014
iberal cities have not found it self-evident that their massacres should be enshrined in...
Tagged Adam Gopnik, Monuments, Museums |
Museums

Similarity in the 9/11 Memorial Museum and Holocaust Museums

Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 July 2014
The 9/11 Memorial Museum…is what future architectural historians will recognize as a specific late-twentieth-century...
Tagged 9/11 Museum, Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem |
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