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Journal of History of Design and Curatorial Studies
Parsons School of Design
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

History of Design and Curatorial Studies
Parsons School of Design
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Issue 5

Behind the Lens and In the Archive of Silas Vassar, III
Charlotte von Hardenburgh

An image of three men in yellow turtlenecks on the cover of a magazine which rests on concrete steps. The magazine has ESSENCE written across the top in red, all-caps, sans serif type. Along the left side of the magazine in black, all-caps, sans serif, condensed type reads: “SENSUOUS SUPPERS, PAUL WINFIELD: THE MAN FROM SOUNDER, MOOD CLOTHES: DO IT WITH STRIPES, SKIN: OUR DOCTOR’S ADVICE OUR BEAUTY ROUTINE.”

But is it Theater?
Matthew Kennedy

Curating Crises: A Conversation with Ellen Lupton & Julie Pastor about Design and Epidemics
Elizabeth Sanders

An empty plaza with white squares painted on the ground, arranged in a grid distanced apart.

Curator Conversation: The Diversity Affinity Group at Cooper Hewitt
Andrea Lacalamita

Curator Conversation: The Responsive Collecting Initiative at Cooper Hewitt
Charlotte von Hardenburgh

Delight Lab: Light as Political Expression
Carolina Arévalo

Designing Gettysburg for the Twenty-First Century: An Imaginative Process
Erica M. Schaumberg

Michael Scoggins: When Johnny Comes Marching Home exhibited large scale works by the New York based artist in 2014. This exhibition poster features “Battle of Gettysburg” that juxtaposes Gettysburg’s historical legacy and Scoggins’ childhood references. The exhibition confronted popular culture’s influence on historic locations like Gettysburg.

Diaspora and Tatreez: Reflections in Stitch
Chelsie Y. Güner

Disability—Visibility
Marissa Giblin

Early Meissen Porcelain as Decoration, Utility, and Health
Michael Greenberger

Immigration and Advertising: Benetton and the Power of Provocation
Margaret Simons

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Lace Collar
Laura Erdos Fernandez

Mitsuko Brooks: Mail Art as a Healing Practice
Abby Sumner

Objective Issue 5

Pressbook Advertising in 1950: The Jackie Robinson Story
Alexis Fair

Queers for Black Lives
J.T. McPartlin

Requiem: Grant Them Eternal Rest
Sebastian Grant

A picture containing a copper form of the lower half of a body shown from the rear, attached to a silver chain, resting on a piece of black cloth against light-colored wood.

Sara Little Turnbull, Graduate of the Parsons School of Design, Inspired the N95 Mask
Amanda Forment

Selling the South
Erica M. Schaumberg

Solidarity, Screen-Printed
Sophie Maize

A photograph of a rack of black t-shirts printed with George Floyd’s face, “I CAN’T BREATHE,” and “#JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD” on the sidewalk at a Washington, D.C. protest.

Speculative Design for a Better Pregnancy
Katrina Orsini

A woman uses Ani Liu’s Grab Them by the *: Mind-Controlled Spermatozoa.

The Community Archive of Willi Smith: Street Couture
Charlotte von Hardenburgh

The Hamilton Fountain: “Let Him Be Forgotten”
Bill Shaffer

The Role of the Fanny Pack in 2020
Ivana Maldonado

The Ulu: A Non-Linear Object
Elizabeth Sanders

Verde Que te Quiero Verde (Green I Want You Green)
Amanda Forment

Photographer: Santiago Tamargo, February 18, 2018

Victoria Munro, Executive Director of the Alice Austen House
Margaret Simons

When the West Was Last: Chinese Imari Porcelain for the Mexican Market
Abby Sumner

Front view of the Chinese Imari shaving basin produced 1690–1700. Double-headed eagle motif represented in the center and at the top inverse. Chinese Imari Shaving Basin (for the Mexican Market). Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 2020.

Why Have There Been No Great Women Monuments?
Andrea Lacalamita

Will Zwarte Piet Ever Be Kicked Out?
Catherine Powell

WPA Posters: Art for The Common Good
Arpie Gennetian