A new museum breaks that pattern by focusing on the legacy of state mental hospitals in Suffolk County.
Since last week, tourists on the upper decks of the Eiffel Tower — and eventually those who use Google Earth — might notice black and white markings on the roof of the Branly museum, a giant pattern of fish scales interrupting the classical skyline of the city.
Of real interest is what the reinstallation tells us about the museum's recent collecting patterns.
Even the porcelain used in the area had distinct rose patterns; the museum has display cases filled with teapots, cups and saucers.
Seen from the street or the garden, the museum presents a continuous pattern of activity, reaffirming its public mission.
Many natural history museums still depict evolutionary patterns as 'orthogenetic', and thus as a linear and directed sequence from ancestor to descendant, including even the classic example of horses [discussed by MacFadden et al. (2012)].
In the present study, we used DNA extracted from wolf samples obtained from zoological museums to examine historical patterns of genetic variability and structure in the Finnish wolf population, which experienced a dramatic population decline over a ~150 year period.
Three decades on and the movement is ripe for re-examination — judging, in any event, by some current exhibitions in regional museums devoted to Pattern and Decoration and its legacy.
One of the better ones is based on the work of Jim Lambie, a Scottish artist who used colorful vinyl tape to create patterns on the museum's floor.
Her death was announced by the American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan, to which, in 2004, Ms. Benberry donated her vast collection of research papers, historical books, museum catalogs, periodicals and original patterns that covered more than two centuries of quilting history.
