The Block Museum of Art - Annual Report 2019-2020

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C U R ATO R I A L I N T E R N S & F E LLO W S hrough internships and fellowships, the Block Museum provides undergraduate and graduate students with vital curatorial and museum experiences—from planning, researching, organizing or supporting exhibitions with curators, to shorter-term projects that contribute to museum content.

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Students conduct object research, work on justifications for donation proposals, and write “collection spotlights” for the museum’s blog post. In addition to curatorial, students also have opportunities to work with staff members from departments across the museum, including exhibitions and collections, engagement and education, communications, visitors’ services, and business.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, Simran Bhalla, from the Department of Radio, Television, and Film, worked with Block Cinema curator, Michael Metzger, organizing screenings and programs in connection with exhibitions. She cocurated Morning Will Come: Modernity in Indian Cinema (winter 2020) and also played a central role in the development and realization of the series Liberating History: Arab Feminisms and Mediated Each year, The Block hosts two graduate Pasts, which was postponed until fall 2020 fellows, one student from the Department because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Simran of Art History and one from another also produced an insightful blog post on department across campus. In 2019–20, Barbara Helpworth’s Two Forms (Divided graduate fellows Cait DiMartino and Circle) (Gift of Leigh B. Block, 1988.3.3) and Simran Bhalla contributed to The Block’s researched Gillian Wearing’s Homage to year of exploring global modernisms. the woman with the bandaged face who I Curatorial Graduate Fellow Cait DiMartino saw yesterday down Walworth Road 1995 organized a collections-based installation, (Gift of Peter Norton, 2016.4. 59; 2016.4.60). Regional Modernisms, as a complement to the exhibition Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, In the fall, Madeline Hultquist and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby (Anthropology, Weinberg, 2021) joined the Weed Grey Collection. Cait also worked with Block team as the first Undergraduate Academic Curator Corinne Granof on initial Research Assistant, funded through the planning for the anniversary exhibition Office of Undergraduate Research. Among For One and All: Prints from the Block’s Madeline’s responsibilities were research Collection. Cait wrote a collection spotlight for the donation proposal and justification on Hector Duarte’s Como te ven te tratan for three photographs by Mark Ruwedel (How they see you, they treat you) (Gift of (Gift of Gary B. Sokol, 2020.4.1–3), along Molly Day and John Himmelfarb, 2007.15.3) with support on the collections database. and worked on object research for several new acquisitions. 149 THE BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART


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