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| The Tuskeegee Airman at the NC Museum of Art |
#49 September 12: I spent yesterday at the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh. I had heard great things and my daughter and I decided it would be a good mutual (if slightly belated) birthday present. As a museum collection, I didn’t think it was any more spectacular than the Mint or some of the other museums I’ve been known to haunt on vacation. But I did learn was a new-to-me way of displaying a collection. In most museums I go to either the collection is sorted by era or artist. At this museum, they purposely mixed the two. For instance, they had a portrait gallery that would display a grand Dutch master portrait beside a hip-hop artist. The wording on the entrance to the gallery gave you the usual overview but added questions to ask yourself. The juxtapositions were very thought-provoking and provided interesting discussions with my daughter. 9/14
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