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From the top, “Me, Myself, and A-i-e-e-e!,” “American Southwest Gothic,” and “Elmer Season”, acrylic on canvas, 12″ square, by Dan Bowden.
The Babes chat with special guest and Museum Hack tour guide, Kate Nickles about the alternative museum experience offered by Museum Hack. Plus a rousing game of "Which Harry Potter house do you belong to?" and "What would your personalized vanity coffin look like?".
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#BadassBitchesTour: Dismantling the Patriarchy One Museum At a Time
In 1989, an anonymous group of art activists calling themselves the Guerrilla Girls dropped a little factoid that rocked the art world: the Metropolitan Museum’s Modern Art section included less than 5% of women artists, while 85% of the nudity on display featured women. Think it’s gotten any better come 2017? Uh, no. That staggering number now stands at only 6% of featured women artists to the tune of around 70% nudes. If you’re a fairly regular visitor to the Met like I am, you’ll be hard-pressed to find decent representation.
Enter: Museum Hack. Their team is working to offer an affordable set of tours that attempt to dismantle the inaccessible, overly academic language that so often surrounds museums. They’re also out to challenge the patriarchal stereotypes that exist throughout the art world in a fun and interactive setting. It’s a tall order, but somebody has to do it.
So when I was recently invited to attend a tour of my choosing, I was surprised to find so many options at my disposal. Museum Hack covers five major cities in the U.S. (Chicago, D.C., L.A., NYC, and San Francisco), and of the tours available in my area, I went for the one appropriately titled “Badass Bitches.” Because of course. Also, the intro sounded amazing:
“Remember when feminism happened, and Georgia O’Keeffe kicked butt, and now museums and the art world totally treat male and female artists with equal value? JK JK IT’S STILL SUPER BAD!”
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I am a born and raised citizen of Maryland. I’m also a huge history nerd. So, of course, I’ve been to the Smithsonian Museums and around the National Mall plenty of times in my life. I …
Sunday-Tuesday, April 2-4, 2017
The MANY Conference in Saratoga Springs was great! I went to a lot of interesting session and spoke with a lot of wonderful people. It’s always a lot of fun to be with other people (nearly 400 of them) who are passionate about museums. I can’t wait until next year in Rochester!
Nick Gray | Why Museums Are F*cking Awesome
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Nick Gray | Why Museums Are F*cking Awesome
Nick Gray, Renegade Museum Tour Guide and Founder of low tech high touch business Museum Hack, shares the love story of his business and why Museums matter. When he first visited the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, it unleashed a curiosity about the history he’d never experienced before. He kept visiting and soon became obsessed and wanted to share this love, and place that meant so much to him with his friends. It became his passion project. He started Museum Hack, a fun private adventure led with heart, soul and a whole lot of fun. It’s a Museum tour like no other, where people are taken to the best parts and any chance of boredom is swept away. His mission is to get people excited about Museums and to be the best tour guide in the World. This super inspiring talk explains how and why. —
Nick Gray loves museums but hates how most museum tours are given. He founded Museum Hack, a company of private tour guides offering unconventional museum tours.
Nick has lived in New York City for the past seven years, with his favourite place being the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is interested in self-improvement and loves hosting picnics in Sheep Meadow of Central Park. Likes: 6 Viewed: source
Musings of a Museum Science Grad Student.
#28. The best museum hack I’ve learned so far, especially for museums with small budgets, is going to clothing stores that are going out of business to get great deals on( or free) mannequins and stands for displays. Snagging the free hangers for your own closet is just an added bonus.