The Night at the Museum is an iconic tradition for first-year Macaulay students. This common event was extremely memorable because it offered a once in a lifetime experience where we had the Brooklyn museum all to ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Macaulay CSI cohort had our own bus to and from the museum. I appreciate that we were all able to travel together, so we did not have to stress about commuting on our own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we arrived, we were escorted to an auditorium where the Macaulay dean welcomed us, and then the Macaulay provost gave a brief presentation. It was nice to see them again, as the last time we saw them was during orientation. I felt bad for the provost because he encountered technology issues where his slides were being skipped. However, we laughed it off and still enjoyed the presentation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the presentation, we were free to explore the fifth-floor gallery, which was the only floor we were allowed to access. Various pieces of American art were featured such as oil paintings, sculptures, film, and most strikingly, chairs. At first, these chairs seemed ordinary, and I questioned whether they could be considered art. Some were made out of wood, others of plastic, and the most comfortable were made of fabric.\u00a0However, I think the museum assigns a new artistic value to the chairs because they reflect the culture of their time period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One specific piece that stood out to me was Bound<\/em> by Kehinde Wiley. It was a structure that consisted of three women\u2019s heads arranged in a triangle. Their braided hair was connected, which tributes Black femininity. I also admired a film called Doors<\/em>. It continuously transitioned clips from different movies each time a character opened a door. I did not recognize any of the movies, but it was a cool reflection of the evolution of film throughout the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only thing I wish had been different was how our time was spent. We had 2 hours to explore the entire fifth floor, but the time passed slowly. I admired most of the artwork within about a half an hour, and then spent the remaining time circling the gallery with little new to see. I wish we could’ve explored more of the museum to see other exhibits. Perhaps we could’ve spent one hour on the fifth floor and another hour on a different floor. To make that possible, the museum could have provided additional security or volunteers to help escort and monitor us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Overall, I am thankful to the Brooklyn Museum for allowing Macaulay to continue the Night at the Museum tradition. I had a fun time exploring the art, and I enjoyed spending the evening with both the Macaulay CSI cohort and the other Macaulay schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Night at the Museum is an iconic tradition for first-year Macaulay students. This common event was extremely memorable because it offered a once in a lifetime experience where we had the Brooklyn museum all to ourselves. Our Macaulay CSI cohort had our own bus to and from the museum. I appreciate that we were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":529,"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-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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\/529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/french2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}