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Stories by Jamilah

Art Tailing

Jamilah, TAG Member; and Genevieve, TAG Member

Posted: Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Like our fellow TAG members, we spent the last meeting of the summer taking photographs of things that inspired us in the Museum. We found ourselves fascinated by how people reacted to works of art in the galleries—looking closer, taking photographs, and talking to each other about how they felt about the art.

First Impressions

Evelin, TAG Member; Genevieve, TAG Member; Jamilah, TAG Member; and Alisha, TAG Member

Posted: Monday, April 9, 2012

Visual representation of TAG members responses to seeing Sargent’s portrait of Madame X | Madame X (detail)

To begin our study of John Singer Sargent's Madame X, we spent time looking at her portrait in the gallery and discussing what we found most striking about the painting.