Tag: Research
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Moments that Make a Museum: Mike O’Malley (’14) on his Internship with the Smart Museum
“That’s my claim to fame,” he said. “I took Frida Kahlo to the movies.” It was 1937. Leon Despres, Chicago alderman and activist, was visiting Mexico, sitting on a couch chatting in French with Diego Rivera while the artist painted a portrait of Despres’s wife, Marian. “I sat there in the morning while he painted…