(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-jEZJjfgvw)
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfRWRib_uik)
Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga at Dallas Museum of Art
(via Claude Monet)
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The freelance museum educators working in New York City are a particular breed of professional: highly trained (often with specialized skills for teaching populations with cognitive issues or physical disabilities), mostly possessing advanced degrees, frequently in love with their jobs. For museums, having these vitally committed, knowledgeable personnel to provide a human face for the institution is essential to one of their main objectives: helping the children and adults they teach to develop a long-lasting relationship with the museum. These freelancers are also mostly women who have backgrounds in art history, education, writing, or commercial art trading, or are themselves practicing artists.
The Precarious Lives of Freelance Museum Educators
It’s known as the industrial factory to the world. But in recent years, China has been shuttering and relocating a number of its manufacturing complexes, as air pollution shrouds its skies — and attracts the world’s scrutiny.In Shanghai, this decampment o