Art. Objects. Museums. Ideas. Questions. What happens when you put things on display and invite people in to look? Have you ever seen art on display and wondered, “Why’d they put that in a museum?” Museum curator Sarah Lees and author Beth Bacon start each conversation with one item, in one specific museum. We explore the object, its history, and the cultural ideas surrounding it. In the end, that object takes on new meaning as listeners discover the fascinating reasons it ended up in a museum.
Christina Burke is a curator, researcher, exhibition developer with expertise in Native American art. Her specialties include archival, bibliographic, and object research; collections management; and exhibit development. She has worked as a consultant and at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa.