Kim Abeles
Kim Abeles' interdisciplinary, multimedia-rich work explores the urban environment. In Conversations Kim Abeles' bird's-eye view of the Museum is a global interpretation of the Museum and its collections that includes specimens suggested by the curatorial staff. The sculpture also incorporates visual montages and video interviews with curators.
Read Kim Abeles' full biography.
Read Kim Abeles' artist statement.
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W. Warner Wood & Margaret Hardin
W. Warner "Bill" Wood is a Curator of Latin American Anthropology specializing in Latin American culture with a focus on indigenous Mexican material culture and identity, globalization, and tourism. Margaret Ann Hardin is Curator of Anthropology and Division Chief for History and Anthropology at the Natural History Museum.
Margaret earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1977. She is the author of "Gifts of Mother Earth: Ceramics in the Zuni Tradition" (The Heard Museum, 1983) and numerous articles about the analysis of style in painted pottery decoration. She is currently engaged in a study of the history of the Zuni miniature carving tradition.
Read W. Warner Wood's full biography.
Read Margaret Hardin's full biography.
Read W. Warner Wood & Margaret Hardin's curatorial statement.
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Anthropology
For Conversations Kim Abeles used a study skin of a Black-throated Magpie-Jay, a skeleton of a White-throated Magpie-Jay, a mountain beaver, and a spaghetti worm among other things to create The Importance of Objects (The Natural History Museum Collection).
View a photograph of the artwork.
Visit the Museum's online Anthropology Department.
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