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@Regrann from @52museums - That's it from us @foundlingmuseum - we've loved running the #52museums account and it's been great to answer your questions and read your responses to our Collection. If you'd like to stay in touch follow our main account @foundlingmuseum. For our final post, here are the heart-shaped #tokens that were left by mothers with their babies at the Foundling Hospital. Next up it's @MichenerArt & @glanmorenhs

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ In the opening decades of the 20th century, New York stood as the grandest expression of the country’s technological and financial world dominance. Joseph Stella’s monumental painting The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted (detail pictured) a panoramic, five‐paneled view of 1920s Manhattan, evokes the dizzying dynamism and awe‐inspiring spectacle of the city. Measuring over 22 feet long, The Voice of the City presents key New York landmarks at night, starting on the west side with the Battery, then moving to the middle of the island with Broadway and the skyscrapers, and ending in the east with the Brooklyn Bridge. Below the five panels are tunnels for trains, electricity and plumbing.⠀ ⠀ Stella, who immigrated to New York in 1896, interpreted American technology in religious terms, as conveyed in this work by the altarpiece format and deep, saturated colors that give the appearance of stained glass windows. ⠀ #Museum #52Museums #Newark #NewarkMuseum

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ The 30,000+ artifacts in @AmericanJewishMuseum's collection illustrate more than 360 years of #Jewish life in the US. Take these #seltzer bottles, for instance! 💦 The name "seltzer" originated in Niederselters, Germany, where natural springs produced carbonated water. Jewish #immigrants brought their love of seltzer to the US. During the drink's heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, Jewish seltzer salesmen could be found throughout America offering "two cents plain," the slang for a bottle of seltzer with no syrup. #nationalmuseumofamericanjewishhistory #nmajh #52museums

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ @Vejenkunstmuseum - The Danish painter Jens Vige was a part of the artist colony at Hammer Bakker north of Aalborg in Jutland, where also the sculptor Niels Hansen Jacobsen had a summerhouse. The wide, barren landscapes of northern Jutland were among Vige’s favorite subjects – the inland heaths portrayed in 1901 and the moon lit costal marshlands in 1909. He died young in 1912 – seven years after painting the self-portrait seen here. #52museums #vejenkunstmuseum #vejenartmuseum #denmark #artnouveau #symbolism #art #museum #culture #history #danishmuseums #artist #jensvige #danishpainting #painting #hammerbakker #aalborg

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ Swedish glass achieved major success at the Paris Exhibition of 1925, including medals for the much-acclaimed engraved glass of Simon Gate and Edward Hald. This celestial globe was made for the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930, an event remembered by posterity as marking the breakthrough of functionalism in Sweden. There, engraved glass from Orrefors celebrated its last triumph. In the 1930s, fashions moved towards thicker, coloured glass with optical effects. @nationalmuseumswe #52museums #nationalmuseumswe #museum #winter #edwardhald #glass #orrefors

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Today’s post Instagram:

Not Stratford’s “Blue Period,” but a cyanotype of the Great House, circa 1900, from the collection. Cyanotypes were popular well into the 20th century—most of them were drawings called “blueprints.” 

– Judy, Director of Research & Library Collections

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So proud to say "Thank you" to Elizabeth and the @batashoemuseum @ American Federation of Arts for inviting me to be involved with the book & exhibit. 👏🏾👣🙌🏾・・・ Sneakers have long been loved as a staple of casual fashion, transcending gender, age, and socioeconomic categories to become the footwear of choice for millions across the globe. "Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture" tells the sneaker’s complex and fascinating story through approximately 150 pairs drawn from the collections of the Bata Shoe Museum and a number of other institutions and private lenders. The exhibition premiered at the Bata Shoe Museum in 2013 and is curated by BSM Senior Curator #ElizabethSemmelhack. It is the first museum exhibition in North America to examine the sneaker’s complex and fascinating social history, from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century to its role in the present day as a status symbol of urban culture. The exhibition has now been expanded into a travelling exhibition in partnership with @amfedarts as The Rise of Sneaker Culture, and has been developed into a fully illustrated catalogue, co-published by the AFA in partnership with the Bata Shoe Museum and @rizzolibooks (the catelogue cover is pictured in the image above). The exhibition has it’s own website riseofsneakerculture.org and can be seen at the @speedartmuseum through November 27th with it's next stop at @oaklandmuseumca opening on December 22. #batashoemuseum #52Museums #museum #history #sneakerculture #sneakerhistory #riseofsneakerculture #travellingexhibition #Rizzoli #sneakersaturday

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#Repost @52museums with @repostapp ・・・ Over the past few months, @mcachicago has been honored to present a museum survey of one of America’s greatest living artists: Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955). In “Kerry James Marshall: Mastry,” the artist critically examines art history from the Renaissance to 20th-century American abstraction and its lack of black visibility. Through his work, #KerryJamesMarshall chronicles the African American experience and aims to make the invisible visible. #52Museums #MCAChicago . (Image: Kerry James Marshall, "School of Beauty, School of Culture," 2012. Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art; Museum purchase with funds provided by Elizabeth (Bibby) Smith, the Collectors Circle for Contemporary Art, Jane Comer, the Sankofa Society, and general acquisition funds. Photo: Sean Pathasema)