New-York Historical Society: “Chinese in America” exhibit.

Visit one of the museum exhibits below and write a five paragraph essay in response:

1st graf: Overall impressions, preconceptions,

2nd,3rd,4th: Analyze three images, objects, or panels in the exhibit. What do they tell us about the period? How do they relate to course readings?

5th: Wrap up. concluding thoughts, Evaluations of the exhibit’s main argument, the strengths and weakness of its content, layout, use of audio/video, etc.

The options:

1. Museum of Modern Art: “One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series.”

2. New-York Historical Society: “Chinese in America” exhibit.

3. Metropolitan Museum of Art: Thomas Hart Benton’s 1920s mural “America Today”

4. National Museum of the American Indian, Focus on one exhibit.

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