MUSEUM MISSIVES Shownotes for Ep 1: Packing
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| Richard Littler's satirical poster for the 2022 Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, nodding to the 1951 original (Source: Dezeen) |
Below are sources for everything I referred to in the show. If you missed this week's episode, you can listen to it here.
Rene Huyghe, “Coordination of International
Art Exhibitions,” July 1950 https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000145331
LACMA redevelopment and space for
circulating exhibitions: https://archpaper.com/2020/03/ahmanson-foundation-severs-ties-with-lacma-over-redevelopment/
Grace McCann Morley and the diversification
of art: https://www.sfmoma.org/essay/grace-mccann-morley-defending-and-diversifying-modern-art/
““I am always a bit baffled…” Grace McCann
Morley to Mrs. John G. Philips, 10 September 1953. Box 103: 11, Museum
Administration: General Correspondence, 1953, SFMOMA Archives.
“When the time comes…” Grace McCann Morley
to Elodie Courter, 8 November 1945. Box 69:1, Outgoing Correspondence, 1945
Oct-Nov, SFMOMA Archives.
“These have been very difficult times…” Grace
McCann Morley to Richard E. Fuller, 31 October 1945. Box 69:1, Outgoing
Correspondence, 1945 Oct-Nov, SFMOMA Archives.
UNESCO Exhibitions of Color Reproductions:
Rachel E. Perry, “Immutable Mobiles: UNESCO's Archives of Colour Reproductions,”
The Art Bulletin, Vol. 99, No. 2, 2017. https://caa.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00043079.2017.1252611
“I think I’d let somebody else pack the
pictures.” Russell Lynes, Good Old
Modern: An Intimate Portrait of the Museum of Modern Art, p. 261.
History of MoMA’s Department of Circulating
Exhibitions: https://www.moma.org/research-and-learning/archives/finding-aids/CEf.html
Elodie Courter Osborn’s Manual of Travelling Exhibitions for
UNESCO: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000001213
Her comment on “This way up” is on ???, and
there are similar comments in Dorothy H Dudley, Museum Registration Methods (1958), p.200
“C for coperchio…” Barbara Furlotti, Antiquities in Motion: From Excavation Sites
to Renaissance Collections
MoMA’s first architecture exhibition: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2044
“Alaska meant Algeria…” Louis C. Barail, Packaging Engineering (New York:
Reinhold, 1954), 295
On French-American artistic exchange: Katherine
L. Wells, “Revival,” in Weaving
Modernism: Postwar Tapestry between Paris and New York (New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2018)
On the showing of the tapestries at the
Met: James Moske, “An American Voyage for French Tapestries,” https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2015/american-voyage-for-french-tapestries
On a more recent tapestry exhibition: Sarah
Mallory, “Behind the Scenes: Hanging the Tapestries in Grand Design,” https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/grand-design/blog/posts/hanging-the-tapestries
“I should like to know who the hell did”
Dudley Easby to William Taylor, 7 December 195?, Metropolitan Museum of Art
archives
On the CIA and AbEx: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/17/unpopular-front
“Traditional collapsible
display cases…” Re-reading the Manual of
Travelling Exhibitions, 147.
“The Museum has a team of skilled packers…”Peter
Floud, draft script of a radio interview (n.d. 1948), Re-reading the Manual of Travelling Exhibitions, 149. Original in
MA/15/14, V&A Archives.
“Useful Household Objects under $5” (1938) https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2745
“Useful Objects of American Design under
$10” (1940) https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2789
“Good Design” (1952) https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1715
The Value of Good Design (2019) https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5032
On the V&A’s Circulation Department,
Joanna Weddell, “The Ethos of the Victoria and Albert Museum Circulation
Department 1947-1960” in Design Objects
and the Museum, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
“Prime Minister Atlee’s goals for state-control
and reconstruction.” Re-reading the
Manual of Travelling Exhibitions, 145
“The history of lithography, to
English watercolors, to decorative woven textiles, to English chairs.” Joanna Weddell, “The Ethos of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Circulation Department 1947-1960” in Design
Objects and the Museum, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, p.16
2022 Festival of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland
Using wads of paper for packing
works of art: Hugh Wakefield, “Methods of Packing in the Victoria and Albert
Museum,”International Institute for Conservation, in Recent Advances in Conservation, Rome 1961, 16-18.
Images of these pictures can also
be found in the illustration section at the back of UNESCO’s revised handbook, Temporary and Travelling Exhibitions
(1963) https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000002870
Wikipedia on wood wool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_wool
“She was
suspicious of blockbuster exhibitions…” https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-katharine-kuh-12186
“the first permanent interpretive space for
adults…” https://www.moma.org/interactives/mining_education/katharine-kuh/
MoMA’s teaching portfolios: https://stories.moma.org/educational-publishing-in-the-expanded-field-9b0fceef7289
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