This timeline is part of a larger Museum of the City of New York exhibit, New York Responds. It was curated by Azra Dawood, the Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow, with data visualization and web design by Sandy Guberti Ng. It is periodically illustrated by footage from Brooklyn-based artist and photojournalist Ian Reid.
Category Archives: Online Exhibits
Beyond Statistics: Living through a Pandemic
The Tenement Museum designed an online exhibit to respond to the Covid-19 crisis, titled Beyond Statistics: Living through a Pandemic. The exhibit interprets the stories of five people, all immigrants or migrants, who lived in the museum’s historic buildings and all died of contagious disease. Through their stories, we look at how historians can uncover perspectives on living with and suffering from contagious disease, the context of prejudice, medical science, and government and community response, and ultimately, the importance of historians finding and honoring stories of individuals.
WashYourHands.art
Woodward Gallery is launching a virtual exhibition, WashYourHands.art, that will be updated often with artistic contributions from all over the world. Artists are welcome to submit an image of one work of art with full details (name, title, medium, size, signature location) to Art@WoodardGallery.net to be considered for the show. The gallery will consider the artist’s personal response to the crisis—How they are affected? What are they feeling now, as the ramifications of the pandemic are coming into focus? How they are reacting to it? And what message do they want to put out into the world right now?