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Featured Artist March 2010 Jennifer Bantz (start) http://bit.ly/ay7tb7
March 1, 2010 3:56pm via web

• http://twitpic.com/167kmv - Trying to figure out the best way to archive all the You Shot Rock albums
  March 2, 2010 9:36am via TwitPic
• A lot of people made their albums really sculptural…and then some are just plain sticky. (Not surprising with with tape as medium.)
  March 2, 2010 9:38am via web
• i'll be tweeting pics of some cool albums that didn't make it into this set: http://bit.ly/ushotrockflickr
  March 2, 2010 11:42am via web
• But in the meantime, my fave non-album-shaped visitor creation: http://twitpic.com/16868q I think this should be our mascot.
  March 2, 2010 11:49am via web
• Fun! http://bit.ly/cGGGCr The ancient floor boards in there are super creaky…saw some visitors getting seriously spooked by it last week.
  March 2, 2010 3:21pm via web
• The Trippe House, pre-Kiki Smith: http://bit.ly/90WI8W and post-Kiki Smith: http://bit.ly/deJBCG
  March 2, 2010 3:44pm via web
• Lobby overflowing with kids! Overheard one guy who should be in sales: “No, listen, this is the BEST PLACE.” http://twitpic.com/16eg4h
  March 3, 2010 11:53am via web
• This 3000+ year old game board http://bit.ly/aol3ZZ is on view in To Live Forever http://bit.ly/a1X95k
  March 3, 2010 12:06pm via web
• So we're putting out tables with a modern version http://twitpic.com/16ejfl so people can play like this lady http://bit.ly/akJeZL
  March 3, 2010 12:08pm via web
• It's a pretty simple game but the instructions are looong…so far people seem to be hanging in there trying to figure it out.
  March 3, 2010 12:12pm via web
• Caretakers seem to dig Senet. Just saw a woman plunk a toddler down in front of it and check her iPhone (...hey, everyone needs a break.)
  March 3, 2010 1:18pm via web
• Visitor album cover: Madonna (and She-ra?) http://twitpic.com/16fm06
  March 3, 2010 3:57pm via web
• Visitor album cover: Fox Rock! http://twitpic.com/16foii (Amazing.)
  March 3, 2010 4:11pm via web
• Sharing gallery space is never easy, so Senet games are temporarily surrounded by art storage: http://twitpic.com/16kjcp
  March 4, 2010 11:23am via web
• It looks cool actually http://twitpic.com/16kjvn but wonder if people are scared off by all the tensa barriers? Interesting experiment…
  March 4, 2010 11:27am via web
• By the way, the murals in that last pic are waiting to be put in pretty new cases; they have a great backstory http://nyti.ms/ajiyMM
  March 4, 2010 11:44am via web
• So Extended Family http://bit.ly/98ggBK has this amazing entrance gallery with Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Nick Cave…
  March 4, 2010 1:31pm via web
• …but you know where I’m always seeing visitors go first? To look over this ledge! http://twitpic.com/16l65t
  March 4, 2010 1:33pm via web
• I admit, it’s a sweet view http://twitpic.com/16l6p4 @ flavorwire just featured a similar one in Kissing in the Museum http://bit.ly/dgSpt7
  March 4, 2010 1:40pm via web
• Overheard, in To Live Forever: “See now, there’s the label, tells you what it is…but you don’t have to read it if you don’t want to.”
  March 4, 2010 3:22pm via web
• Visitor album cover: Bjork + Stylin’ shades and Tattoo http://twitpic.com/16lq9e
  March 4, 2010 3:28pm via web
• Not always easy to extend our open photo policy to special exhibitions bit.ly/cBepjB
  March 5, 2010 1:28pm via web
• But love to see people happily doing this http://twitpic.com/16ry6k (photo by fab intern Charlotte)
  March 5, 2010 1:30pm via web
• Lots of evidence here that visitors share their museum object experiences through photos, as @ ninaksimon says http://bit.ly/aFkUuK
  March 5, 2010 1:33pm via web
• Design usually determines label placement, but sometimes we’ll move something based on feedback. Like last month.
  March 5, 2010 2:48pm via web
• A label was apparently a little too close to a utility closet – guards told us people kept opening up the closet looking for the mummy.
  March 5, 2010 2:48pm via web
• Reviewing comments posted at the kiosks during 1st Sat is always interesting. I’ll highlight a few entries here today…
  March 8, 2010 12:37pm via web
• Great blunt analysis of TLF: Apropos our economy, I appreciated that one of the themes of the exhibit was “dying on a budget.” Posted by Bud
  March 8, 2010 12:38pm via web
• Curators were interested in how people who had less adapted tomb practices; heard someone compare it to modern budget wedding planning.
  March 8, 2010 12:44pm via web
• Intern Charlotte liked this snap from Kiki Smith, where man gesture = sculpture gesture http://twitpic.com/17dws1
  March 8, 2010 1:05pm via web
• Funniest thing I saw on 1st Sat? Little boy grab the stuffed animal from this piece and try to make a break for it http://bit.ly/dBYqZv
  March 8, 2010 1:53pm via web
• Then dad caught him: “Don’t touch anything!”
  March 8, 2010 1:54pm via web
• I felt for him. I’m sure stuffed animals on the floor are usually fair game. (But I bet our conservators would not be amused!)
  March 8, 2010 2:01pm via web
• More 1st Sat visitor comments: i like the plastic indian person — Posted by annie http://bit.ly/a5dnPc
  March 9, 2010 11:26am via web
• That piece gets a LOT of love in the comments. Partly because it’s awesome…and maybe partly because it’s right near the comment kiosk?
  March 9, 2010 11:27am via web
• Visitor album cover: Half-Heads http://twitpic.com/17k8c5 (Love! Reminds me a little of this http://bit.ly/a8oGoJ )
  March 9, 2010 11:50am via web
• It looks like the Egyptian board game is stressing this girl out a little http://twitpic.com/17la7r
  March 9, 2010 3:29pm via web
• People lined up to play at 1st Sat, which was cool to see. Most seemed to be between 8-35. Not a lot of older people…interesting…
  March 9, 2010 3:29pm via web
• Some people internally were concerned pieces would go missing from unmonitored games…not a single one after a busy week! Impressive.
  March 9, 2010 3:37pm via web
• 1st Sat visitor comment: i think this is the best place ever because they have things you can sit on…
  March 10, 2010 2:05pm via web
• ...and plus you can walk in houses for free so thanks — Posted by reyiana simpson (That is so great. Everybody LOVES places to sit down.)
  March 10, 2010 2:06pm via web
• One issue with those comment kiosks is that smaller kids are drawn to them & some love to just pound on the keys with all their might.
  March 10, 2010 2:38pm via web
• Saw 2 little girls doing that on 1st Sat. Parental response? “Stop that! And how can you be hungry? You just had 20 pieces of sushi!”
  March 10, 2010 2:39pm via web
• Did you guys see all the students writing so diligently in the galleries on FSAT? http://twitpic.com/17sa08
  March 10, 2010 4:40pm via web
• I have no idea what the assignment was, but their ability to concentrate on a paper on a Sat night was impressive http://twitpic.com/17sa25
  March 10, 2010 4:43pm via web
• Sorry bout the radio silence…caught the twitter bug that wouldn't let me sign out of my other acct!
  March 12, 2010 1:50pm via web
• Spent last 48 hours wading through stax and stax of text related to Warhol: The Last Decade, the Mummy Chamber, and American High Style.
  March 12, 2010 1:51pm via web
• Last year, we put out a replica historical chair that people can actually sit in, near the Schenck House http://twitpic.com/1858g4
  March 12, 2010 2:18pm via web
• 17th century original (right) http://twitpic.com/1858rh Modern replica for sitting in, handmade with old tools http://twitpic.com/18593f
  March 12, 2010 2:22pm via web
• On Sat this group of 5 were all trying it out and started telling strangers to sit in it too: “My spine feels great; you have to try it!”
  March 12, 2010 2:32pm via web
• My fave thing on 1st Sat: everyone talking to each other about things on view; usually people feel they have to be so quiet in museums.
  March 12, 2010 2:36pm via web
• Have been listening to great descriptions of some of our American paintings developed as part of Art Beyond Sight http://bit.ly/ag5qLF
  March 15, 2010 9:47am via web
• Love the one on Bierstadt’s Storm in the Rocky Mtns, a perennial visitor fave (#19 Most Viewed, #5 Time on Page) http://bit.ly/9BVe0b
  March 15, 2010 9:49am via web
• And the winner for Best Backhanded Visitor Complement: The Metropolitan museum was better,,, good job, though! - Loren + Massimo
  March 15, 2010 11:23am via web
• Overheard in 18thc period rooms: “Used to be you’d just find you a good man to build you a house out of wood. Isn’t that crazy to think?”
  March 15, 2010 11:38am via web
• I've always thought it would be fun to see our Soundsuit in action…sweet video of some other ones on the move: http://bit.ly/bNDt9U
  March 15, 2010 2:43pm via web
• A friend in Education just sent me this awsome Mustache Scavenger Hunt sheet developed with the mustache sisters http://bit.ly/akxiur
  March 17, 2010 12:07pm via web
• You have to find some guys in the museum with pretty subtle 'staches: http://bit.ly/bCKrEu http://bit.ly/bbNWnc
  March 17, 2010 12:10pm via web
• And then some with more serious crumbcatchers… http://bit.ly/df0Irh http://bit.ly/azOhvK
  March 17, 2010 12:13pm via web
• Wondering what other scavenger hunts would be fun to try. Hats? Horses? Got all sorts of nudes…but that one could be tricky.
  March 17, 2010 1:03pm via web
• Ha! Such a good idea for a photo op http://twitpic.com/1966zi (Leaning “on” the Herter Bros. mantle http://bit.ly/doYlWW )
  March 17, 2010 1:36pm via web
• This light sensitive guy lives under a special cover that has a B/W repro printed on it and says “please lift” http://bit.ly/curQEW
  March 18, 2010 3:29pm via web
• It's a functional thing due to conservation issues, but it also makes it kind of mysterious, which people just seem to totally dig…
  March 18, 2010 3:33pm via web
• Saw this little girl opening & shutting it over & over: “This is him in color…this is him in black and white…color…black and white…color…”
  March 18, 2010 3:34pm via web
• I'm fascinated by how people are responding to a video and interactive kiosk we put down in To Live Forever…
  March 23, 2010 11:49am via web
• This is the basic content: http://bit.ly/9GxK8Z Lets you see 3D mummy scans and short videos about objects in the show…
  March 23, 2010 11:50am via web
• In general the TLF interactive kiosk is used less than we expected. A little informal observation turned up some interesting notes on it…
  March 23, 2010 1:57pm via web
• With the guards' help, we figured about 10% of visitors use it, with more young people than older approaching it.
  March 23, 2010 2:00pm via web
• The numbers could be due to issues of placement, lighting, signage, content…we'll have to keep watching and listening to figure it out.
  March 23, 2010 2:02pm via web
• But there's this interesting phenomenon…if just one visitor begins using it, very often others will see that and actually form a line!
  March 23, 2010 2:04pm via web
• But my fave observation so far? We've been trying youtube's captioning for the videos they host for us…
  March 23, 2010 2:21pm via web
• ...and we saw one woman in her 60s say, “hey this one has captions!” and proceed to happily read the captions and ditch the headphones.
  March 23, 2010 2:22pm via web
• Visitor comment: “great layout, please make hand sanitizer available at keyboard. more places to rest. excellent lighting.” — Condor,Conway
  March 24, 2010 10:50am via web
• That's the kind of constructive criticism that can be super helpful. Look for patterns, and then try to adjust on the fly.
  March 24, 2010 10:54am via web
• Education & Curatorial helped me put together “family tree of the egyptian afterlife” for an exhibition wall http://twitpic.com/1b1j97
  March 26, 2010 10:34am via web
• Mainly because the myths get pretty complex and it's fun to see it mapped out with actual figures…
  March 26, 2010 10:36am via web
• Thinking about moving it into a more permanent gallery, so trying to find new images of Osiris & Co. that come from the art in there…
  March 26, 2010 10:38am via web
• Can't underestimate the museum as also just a pleasant place to get outta the weather & do some reading http://twitpic.com/1b2i80
  March 26, 2010 1:17pm via web
• PS: Yes, the kid in the background of that pic is doing some kind of Roger Rabbit-ish 80s dance. No idea why, but it cracked me up.
  March 26, 2010 1:19pm via web
• There’s actually this one man who’s here all the time reading & writing on a bench. It's like Where's Waldo…but he eludes my camera!
  March 26, 2010 1:21pm via web
• From the Visitor Comment Hall of Fame (Rock): “I never knew David Bowie had such nice legs. And Tina Turner's live up to the hype.” - anon
  March 26, 2010 3:42pm via web
• From the Visitor Comment Hall of Fame: “...also i wish they would serve coffee with the paintings.” - Posted by emanuelle la blanca
  March 29, 2010 3:28pm via web
• Me too, Emanuelle…me, too. And Krispy Kreme donuts. (Especially right about now.)
  March 29, 2010 3:29pm via web
• A big new piece has appeared in the lobby! http://twitpic.com/1c6ak5 Othoniel's The Secret Happy End (known around here as The Wagon)
  March 31, 2010 8:56am via web
• Label was fun to review…it's actually a revamped real antique wagon. (Curators said he bought it online from someone in South Dakota!)
  March 31, 2010 9:05am via web
• Just had waaaay too much fun at B&J Fabrics picking out samples for a touch wall for the American High Style show http://twitpic.com/1c7ra4
  March 31, 2010 1:05pm via web
• You have to be at least 42” away from most things in the show, so we wanted to find a way to compare fabrics, etc…we'll see how it goes.
  March 31, 2010 1:08pm via web
• Crepe, chiffon, faille (had NO idea what that was), tweed, organdy…now Design gets to try to make it look good http://twitpic.com/1c8x3v
  March 31, 2010 4:31pm via web
• These people were making up their own super-fast-paced game with the Senet pieces…sounded hilarious: http://twitpic.com/1c8y8h
  March 31, 2010 4:36pm via web
• Been wondering how many people would just make up their own rules…totally what I would do.
  March 31, 2010 4:37pm via web
• Featured Artist March 2010 Jennifer Bantz (end) http://bit.ly/ay7tb7 - thanks, Jenny
  April 1, 2010 7:41am via web