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“The exhibit draws the line from women born into slavery all the way to Vice President Harris”

“These mothers of Black Feminism had one big thing in common — DC.” by Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post, March 30, 2023

As project manager and exhibition developer for We Who Believe in Freedom Black Feminist DC I helped the National Women’s History Museum realize their first-ever physical exhibition at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. Dvorak explains exactly why exploring the history of Black Feminism in the nation’s capital is so important.

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“The National Women’s History Museum is set on making sure we all understand the history and power of Black Feminist.”

“How Black Freedom Is Linked to Black Feminism” by Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, March 21, 2023

Marybeth Gasman explores the themes and issues of the exhibition and the way it, “tells the story of the profound impact of Black Feminists on society, policy, and everyday lives.”

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“A small-but-mighty compendium”

“What’s ahead for NYC in 2023? This new almanac has some predictions,” by Rossilynne Skena Culgan, Time Out New York, November 17, 2022

I talk to Rossilynne about the inspiration behind An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2023 predictions for the coming year, some fun events, and what’s new for this edition.

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“Learn how Kennedy used the highest office in the land to shape a national conversation around the arts”

“A New Kennedy Center Exhibition Shows JFK’s Love of the Arts,” by Fritz Hahn, The Washington Post, September 20, 2022

Fritz Hahn reviews Art & Ideals: President John F. Kennedy at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Working with curator Ileen Gallagher and Pentagram designer Abbott Miller I wrote an exhibiton script that wove together Kennedy’s love of the arts, the cold war, and civil rights.

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“A New Book in Town that Will Help Ease Your FOMO”

“The Top Five Things you Must Do in NYC in 2022,” by Shaye Weaver, Time Out New York, September 20, 2021

Shaye Weaver interviews me about An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2022 - part guide book, part planner, and all love letter to NYC. We talked about how the Almanac was proof of NYC’s resilience in the face of the pandemic, and how the city’s soul stays the same, no matter how much else changes. I also offer my top 5 tips on how to survive — I mean enjoy — a weekend out and about in NYC.

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“A Small but Powerful Show”

“For Jackie Robinson’s Centennial a Display of Rarely Seen Photographs,” by Sopan Deb, The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2019

In 2019 I collaborated with photography curator Sean Corcoran to curate the exhibition In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait of a Baseball Legend celebrating the centennial of Robinson’s birth with unpublished photographs from LOOK magazine. Sopan Deb calls it a, “small but powerful show.”

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“A Perfect Keepsake”

“Time Flies When You’re the Capital of the World” by Sam Roberts, New York Times, Jan. 4, 2018

Sam Roberts reviews the catalog New York at Its Core: 400 Years of New York City History , which I managed and edited. He calls it, “both a perfect keepsake and a timely primer that introduces adults and younger readers to the full spectrum of the city’s metamorphosis from a vulnerable Dutch trading outpost to a world capital poised to celebrate its 400th birthday.”

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“Retraced and Reinterpreted”

“How a Massive Public Works Project Saved a Parched New York” by Sam Roberts, New York Times, Dec. 4, 2017

In 2017 I curated To Quench the Thirst of New Yorkers: The Croton Aqueduct at 175 for the Museum of the City of New York. I commissioned photographer Nathan Kensigner to retrace the steps of aqueduct engineer and artist Fayette B. Tower.  Sam Roberts reflects on the story of the aqueduct and the new photographs that “retraced and reinterpreted” Tower’s original drawings.

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“An Astoundingly Thorough and Moving Permanent Exhibition”

“New York at its Core, Museum of the City of New York” by Ariella Budick, Financial Times, Jan. 1, 2017

I served as Project Director for New York at Its Core, MCNY’s permanent exhibition on New York City history. Ariella Budick writes, “The project of telling this confounding story could have gone wrong in so many ways; it might have yielded a desiccated display of memorabilia, or a spray of boosterish razzmatazz. Instead, New York at Its Core is an astoundingly thorough, detailed and moving homage to a city that inspires life-long love and deep-seated resentment, often in the same person.”

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“A Lavishly Illustrated Volume”

“Boy Detective, Gilded New York and Best-Dressed Man,” by Sam Roberts, New York Times, November 15, 2013

Quoting my catalog essay for the book Gilded New York, which he calls “a lavishly illustrated volume,” Sam Roberts sums up a major theme of the work: “The 1897 elegant Bradley-Martin Ball marked the height of over-the-top extravagance, all but drove the hosts out of the country and posed a questions raised by Susan Gail Johnson in an accompanying essay, ‘Could the wealthy justify extravagant expense on entertainments by claiming that they were putting their money into circulation? Or were they flaunting their wealth in the face of those less fortunate?’ Put simply, did lavish displays of wealth foster socialism?”

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