This week’s historical highlights touch on everything from bras to baseball cards, the Mona Lisa to motion pictures. I hope you find one or two links that fit your interests.
Check out the crazy architecture of a future museum in Beirut!
What do you think of these “plans to re-imagine the museum visits of the future”?
This week in history:
- January 9, 1886 was the birth date of Ida Cohen Rosenthal, co-founder of the first company to make modern bras
- The Belgian comic Tintin turns 90
Some interesting art history:
- “Study: Mona Lisa Effect Doesn’t Apply to its Namesake”
- “Women Artists Excel in the Face of Oppression in new Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition”
- “Photographer Dawoud Bey Reimagines Sites of the Underground Railroad”
- “What Sister Wendy Beckett, the Late Nun and Popular Art Historian, Taught Me About Being a Curator”
You might also like to read about:
- An Australian suffragist
- The history of baseball cards
- The importance of early motion pictures
- Digital preservation in archives