The museum published an essay on its Web site by Ms. Konigsburg, explaining how a visit with her children one day sparked the book.
The victors in the museum's first essay competition on ethics in journalism, James Tanner, a student lawyer from Oxford, and the overall winner, Anthony Casanova, a school pupil from London - both American citizens - arrived to learn that they were expected to read their essays aloud to the company.
Plans for the new building had been approved by the Boston Landmarks Commission and the Massachusetts Historical Commission, but in May a former curatorial fellow at the museum, Robert Colby, wrote an essay that said the carriage house had held symbolic value to Gardner.
To address the centrality of language, books, and the act of reading in Chong?s oeuvre, this publication features newly commissioned texts from a variety of contributors: an introduction by museum director Larys Frogier, and essays by the exhibition?s curator Li Qi, Hong Kong?based curator and critic Pauline J. Yao, and New York?based curator Weng Xiaoyu.
She wrote an essay about her museum trips -- and she got an A. Have you been to Washington, D.C., yet?
A division between hunters and gatherers starts to emerge, one that's further detailed in a catalog essay by the museum's chief curator, David Revere McFadden.
Making coffee in the morning, working out at the gym, shaving afterward, reading a book, thinking deep thoughts, writing an essay, visiting a museum, browsing in a bookstore, cleaning my desk, calling my mother.
You know the drill: an introductory essay from the museum's director, followed by pages of neatly captioned photographs of pieces in the collection, arranged by type, date, whatever.
Then there are the lapses (I discovered at least one work in the exhibition not included in the catalog checklist) and clichés, like this one rounding out the essay by the museum director and exhibition co-curator, Constance Schwartz: "And so nearly a century after his birth, this bigger-than-life human being died.
While they were often viewed as benevolent protectors, they also carried the ancient burden of being pariahs, or scavengers, and were sometimes seen as symbols of sexual promiscuity, as Edgar Peters Bowron, curator of European art at the Houston museum, notes in his catalog essay.
