Metamuseum

Teaming with a group of 13 American museums and cultural institutions with design, craft and architecture collections, writer and critic Alexandra Lange has woven together the Multi-Museum, Multi-Curator Tumblr project MetaMuseum.

Each week, work chosen by curators at each institution will be presented on tumblr and released through other social media outlets. Loosely grouped by themes, these works will culminate with a final survey of American design, and so the Tumblr serves as an experiment to see if any “American aesthetic” will arise, and if it does, what shape will it take?

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After the Museum: The Home Front 2013 at the Museum of Arts and Design
Teaming with a group of 13 American museums and cultural institutions with design, craft and architecture collections, writer and critic Alexandra Lange has woven together the Multi-Museum, Multi-Curator Tumblr project MetaMuseum.

Each week, work chosen by curators at each institution will be presented on tumblr and released through other social media outlets. Loosely grouped by themes, these works will culminate with a final survey of American design, and so the Tumblr serves as an experiment to see if any “American aesthetic” will arise, and if it does, what shape will it take?

Metamuseum is part of
After the Museum: The Home Front 2013 at the Museum of Arts and Design
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  • Marking sampler Dresden, Germany, 1834. Embroidered on cotton. Collection of Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer, 1981-28-277.  Practicing embroidering letters originated when household linens needed to be marked with the family initials and/ or crest before being sent off to the bleaching fields. These exercises later evolved into highly decorative samplers like this one. -  Ellen Lupton Senior Curator of Contemporary DesignCooper-Hewitt, National Design Museumhttp://www.cooperhewitt.org/

    Marking sampler

    Dresden, Germany, 1834. Embroidered on cotton. Collection of Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer, 1981-28-277. 

    Practicing embroidering letters originated when household linens needed to be marked with the family initials and/ or crest before being sent off to the bleaching fields. These exercises later evolved into highly decorative samplers like this one.

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    Ellen Lupton

    Senior Curator of Contemporary Design
    Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
    http://www.cooperhewitt.org/

    • March 6, 2013 (10:01 am)
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      i remember that my grandma had some of these in her apartment…
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      Day two at metamuseum.tumblr.com. This week’s theme: Alphabet. Good place to start, right?
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