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Rebecca McNamara

Rebecca McNamara

Arts & design curator & scholar

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I am a curator and scholar, specializing in 19th-century through contemporary American arts, design, and material culture. Learn more about my curatorial projects, books, magazine & journal writing, blog writing, and speaking.

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Felt pretty lucky to see this Lenore Tawney out of @tangteachingmuseum storage today and taking pride of place in “Shaking the Trees,” the ever-transforming mezzanine installation by @nicolecherubinistudio. At left is Sara VanDerBeek, also from the Tang collection ||
📷: the hyperbolic coral I’ll be working on at tonight’s crochet workshop & craft circle @tangteachingmuseum! What are you working on?
Art IRL. Congratulations to @alisasikelianoscarter on a fantastic show at @schick_gallery! Pictures don’t do a justice, especially to that showstopper in the back and the lush all-black works.
I flew through “The Testaments.” It is not Margaret Atwood’s best writing; it doesn’t demonstrate her mastery over the craft of language and sentence structure. But for viewers of “The Handmaid’s Tale” TV series, it fills the void left by a lack of new episodes and re-engages us with Aunt Lydia, Baby Nicole, and other characters from the book and series 15 years in the future. Recommended for anyone who has watched the series; not recommended if you’re looking for quintessential Atwood or don’t know what it means to say that Aunt Lydia is both terrifying and endearing. But if you do know, get ready for “The Testaments” to twist your moral compass and emotions further. And like “The Handmaid’s Tale” book, the ending through my scholarly/academic brain into a tailspin.

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