An Entire Life Told in Museum Wall Labels
about 5 months ago (12/05/2023)
An Entire Life Told in Museum Wall Labels Skip to content Cover of One Woman Show by Christine Coulson (courtesy Avid Reader Press) The writer Christine Coulson spent much of her 25-year tenure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art composing wall labels for the museum’s galleries. Beneath the standard “ tombstone information ” — artist name, date, medium — she had 75 words to describe and contextualize the artwork at hand. Each label was an exercise in distillation, precision, and, by necessity, omission.