Curious Objects & The Stories Behind Them
“Where the Past Never Gets Old”: Re-presenting History at Colonial Williamsburg
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 1:03:35
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Synopsis
Michael Diaz-Griffith treks to Colonial Williamsburg to talk with chief curator Ron Hurst about a new exhibition, "British Masterworks," in which objects like gilded chandeliers, a colossal Chippendale bookcase, and an armchair upholstered with a parrot and a basket of fruit—collected by curators in the early twentieth century to flesh out their conception of 1700s Williamsburg—tell very different stories today from the ones they were bought to support.