Decolonization & Indigenization Processes in Museum & Gallery Narratives and Spaces
In my last blog post, I talked about the history of museum galleries as middle-class and disciplinary spaces designed to promote a...
Revisiting the 'Exhibitionary Complex': Traditional and Alternative Exhibition Spaces
As a student of history and art history, I've certainly heard before that many individuals find museums and art galleries boring,...
Challenging Authority, Part I: God Hates Renoir
Recently, you might have seen some amusing pictures like this one in news headlines: The photo shows a protest by the...
The Unequal Burden of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
This week, completely ignoring the instructions of my professor to focus more on the visuals in my blog (next post, I promise), I want to...
A Place Beyond Its Own Existence
No Road Home tells the story of the residents of the Lost Villages of the St Lawrence Seaway. During a massive hydro-electric...
National Heritage: 'Capital-H History'
CA-NA-DA!, the song of Expo 67 and Canada's Centennial celebrations. The video features the song's composer, Bobby Gimby, leading a...
Destabilizing the Relationship between Public and History; A Train Towards Self-Discovery of Histori
Canada's Discovery Train in Vancouver, 1978. Don Evans image (http://www.themetrains.com/main.html) The label 'public history' is not an...
