{"id":899,"date":"2025-10-23T13:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/?p=899"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:19:54","slug":"night-at-the-museum-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/2025\/10\/23\/night-at-the-museum-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Night at the Museum 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Coming from Staten Island, I definitely wish the museum had more to offer. I think cost wise it would have been more entertaining to have a set amount of time on the two floors, security following us to each floor, rather than just closing off the other floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experience was quite nice overall, seeing all the other Macaulay kids across the campuses. I was able to meet new people, as well as see the people I previously met at the orientation days. I wish there was more events that brought together all the freshman class, unfortunately very unlikely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artworks on display were interesting to say the least. There was an assortment of meaningful, political, artistic, and beautiful art. Whilst some were…questionable, they all had some sort of meaning as to why they were painted. At least thats what the museums walls said, but how true can all those really be. I mean who really asked Louis R\u00e9my Mignot about his painting Niagara in 1866. Crazy to think that every piece of artwork has some rich history and deep meaning, yet who really gets to decide that if the actual artist was dead hundreds of years prior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s what I will never understand about museums, why can a painting not be exactly what it is. Mignot’s waterfall could just be a pretty memory of his that he painted for quick cash. Deciding meanings on artworks that were created by someone else seems inherently wrong. Especially once it gets spread across millions of platforms all sharing one random persons thought on this painting. Artwork does not exactly need any detailed explanation, yet museums always have one. It takes away peoples ability to connect in their own ways with these paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That is mainly why my favorite part of this experience was walking through the glass shelves filled with items. They focused on the dates, not even giving the items a brief description. It helps the visitor understand the talent and ingenuity that must have been part of the creation, without assigning an unrelated deeper meaning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorable mention; The doors by Christian Marclay. The never ending constantly looping film of decades of films cut and pieced together to create a collage of people jumping through time shown by doors. Being created in 2022, It was surprising not to see any new films. Although it never clarifies which films were used, most were in black and white whilst even the ones in color were at the latest from the 2000’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coming from Staten Island, I definitely wish the museum had more to offer. I think cost wise it would have been more entertaining to have a set amount of time on the two floors, security following us to each floor, rather than just closing off the other floor. The experience was quite nice overall, seeing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}