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Pacifist Males & Warrior Females

During the recent Hero-themed Friday Night Live at the ROM, I brought out examples of popular prints from the collection that explored different hero tropes in South Asian culture. Here are some of them. About a hundred year ago, mass produced colour lithographs proliferated across the South Asian

From the Field: Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project 2011 – Cherry on top

July 13-14, 2011 We have been in the field for almost a month. The last few days we have been winding down the field season. We have been getting the exposed and mapped bones out of the quarries before shutting them down. We finished off the McPheeters Bonebed yesterday. We did incredibly well here

Fantastic Folding Fan Leaf

By Ka Bo Tsang, ROM Assistant Curator, Chinese Pictorial Arts Wu Huizhang wrote Tang-dynasty poems onto this folding fan, showing exceptional levels of concentration, writing skill, and compositional skill. In this age when the electric fan and air-conditioning provide us instant relief from the

Douglas Coupland: Everything Man

Douglas Coupland: Everything Man

Artist, writer, thinker Douglas Coupland is a man of many talents    Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist and artist. Although it was his work as a fiction writer that Coupland was first recognized for, his writing is complemented by his work in design and visual art, which arises from his

Safavid Tile Project IV: The Artist behind the Arches

Safavid Tile Project IV: The Artist behind the Arches

Written by  Lisa Golombek, Curator Emeritus (Islamic Art)  In 17th century Iran, unlike earlier times, painters often signed their works. These were individual pages, collected by the connoisseur and bound in an album, or the artist signed pages of an illustrated manuscript. Although these

Travels in India, part 5

Senior Preparator, Bob Walsh was asked to give a talk on his specialty, exhibit lighting design, by the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India. http://www.nid.edu/ Bob has been there for over a two weeks now and here is his last post from India.   Linking Sarkhej   I'm

From Meteorites to Slime- A Look at the ROMForYou “Space Day” at The Hospital For Sick Children

From Meteorites to Slime- A Look at the ROMForYou “Space Day” at The Hospital For Sick Children

(written by Min Wong, member of ROMForYou, Friends of Earth and Space, Friends of Paleontology) Have you ever held a piece of Mars? Martian meteorites are exceedingly rare but kids got to see one first hand on “Space Day” at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) over the March Break. It was

Meet the Ultimate Dino Team: Richard Lahey

Interpretive Planner? What’s that? We caught up with Richard Lahey, ROM Interpretive Planner, to explain his role in the museum world, as well as what he did to help bring the larger-than-life Ultimate Dinosaur exhibition together and some of the interesting things he learned. Can you describe

“A Rolling Stone Gathers no Moss” but the stories they can tell…

Submitted by Vincent Vertolli, Assistant Curator Geology In September of 1959 Dr. Walter Tovell, Curator of Geology was contacted by the operators of a limestone quarry to find out whether the ROM would be interested in a very unusual boulder they found. Normally when a geologist hears of a

Primate Conservation and the Bushmeat Crisis

Primates have been at the forefront of  The Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity these days. In August, our monthly Curators’ Corner featured Matthew Richardson, a primatologist who has worked closely with Conservation International co-authoring several books on the lemurs of