Word: muir
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...don’t really think about them within the context of the ‘Pear Tree,’” Muir adds. In fact, the most salient characteristic of the exhibit may be the complex dialogue established among the various themes engaged...
...Peter Burgard was wondering if in the exhibition we could somehow put it on a swivel so that people could see it as vertical and as horizontal,” jokes Muir. “It’s a really cool idea, but it’s something that, within the constraints of a museum exhibition and a valuable work of art, you can?...
...exemplary of the exhibition’s attempt to recreate the challenges posed by turn-of-the-century Viennese art. “We hope that people will look at it differently and think of it in terms of the crisis that was happening,” says Muir. “I mean, it doesn’t look that radical to us today, but we’re hoping that it at least might make people think about it again...
Perhaps because of enthusiasm for this recovered radical bent, turnout to the exhibition has been high. A recent gallery talk given by a graduate student at the School of Design attracted roughly twice the usual turnout for gallery talks, including Cantabrigians, graduate students, tourists, and faculty, but according to Muir, very few undergraduates...
...increase student participation, the team putting on the exhibition allowed two students enrolled in the course to give gallery talks. “It turns out that we had to create two extra spots, because the interest in giving gallery talks was so good,” says Muir. Ultimately, even the two extra slots were insufficient; Muir et al. have decided to let students give their gallery talks in pairs, permitting eight students total the opportunity to give presentations...