“Putting things to good use that others have discarded as broken is what we do,” I read. I glanced over my shoulder at the rusty shovel with a splintered handle leaning up against the broken chair in the corner of my room. I am saving them for repurposing. Other found objects have already been repurposed: [...]
In our short time at the Ackland Museum this week, we were introduced to the constructions of fame and the self through a postmodernist lens. During the first half of our class time Monday, we focused on the construction of fame through the sculptural portrayals of “great men.” These portrayals captured these “great men” as [...]
Genius. Sheer genius, I thought, looking at William Hayes Ackland’s mausoleum. What inspired this man to declare that his body must be interred at the museum he endowed, we can’t be sure. But he did it, and now his body lies in the Ackland among other pieces of art. By stipulating that his body be buried [...]
