In a fascinating introductory essay, Melissa J. Martens, who curated the exhibit, writes that almost as soon as mah jongg was introduced to the Jewish community in New York, around 1923, it became a women's game, and throughout the nineteen-thirties it was "played regularly at sisterhood gatherings and benefits".
"Poor Bindi: she's being set up to be another zoo exhibit," wrote one columnist.
Not only must the graduates exhibit writing skills, but they are expected to be highly proficient therein.
Fatmagul Berktay, another curator of the "Dream" exhibit, wrote that "Patriarchal ideology assigned men the attributes of rationality, civilization and culture, while the female identity was one of irrationality and sentimentality," right down to a Turkish proverb that says women are "long of hair, short of sense".
Also located here is the proposal for the exhibit written by Tom Rankin, documentary photographer and Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program at Duke University.
All authors do not necessarily have a unique pattern, however; some exhibit writing patterns that are erratic and/or include considerable reposting, quoting, plagiarism, non-sequiturs, short responses, etc.
London Evening Standard reviewed the exhibit, writing, "Ambient noise evokes the frozen Arctic tundra, and voices read poems by Nick Drake, creating an elegiac, even ghostly aural collage reflecting the Arctic's history and uncertain future".
The Laysan crake is one of around 1,000 bird species known by exhibits, written accounts, illustrations, skeletons, eggs or subfossil remains to have existed but which have vanished in the last 700 years.
I've written reports; participated in Wayfinding studies; served on committees and other advisory committees; curated two digital exhibits; written newsletters; made the Burke more efficient with usage of space; created documentation; written LibGuides; presented in classes for Columbia, Union Theological Seminary and Barnard College; presented at conferences; and on and on.
The Masters of Science in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture is designed to offer advanced training in the fields of architectural criticism, publishing, curating, exhibiting, writing, and research through a two-year, full-time course of intensive academic study and independent research.
"While his art has been exhibited, written about and researched so intensely, standing in front of one of his large-scale paintings of water lilies is a completely different experience than viewing it in a book or on a mug," Buron said.
