Recently added articles from ROM Magazine:
A letter from our director and CEO: The Question of Celebrity: how does it define us?(First Word)
Sep 22, 2009; Thorsell, William ... A publication sometimes fits so seamlessly into the mores of a time that we can say the publication defines its subjects rather than the other way around. The New Yorker magazine has this feel--so very Manhattan in its sense of humour, preoccupations, and liberal view of the world. ...
Exhibitions and gallery openings.(What's On at the ROM)(Calendar)
Sep 22, 2009; ... In the Spotlight September 26, 2009, to January 3, 2010 Feature Exhibition/ICC Roloff Beny Gallery, Level 4, Michael Lee-Chin Crystal NEW Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 In that fertile first quarter of the last century, ...
Fame: is identity the cost of celebrity?(Opinion)
Sep 22, 2009; Kingwell, Mark ... A globally famous musician and recording artist dies suddenly, aged 50. He has been for many years withdrawn from normal society, indulging in eccentricities and a steady diet of cross-prescribed drugs for anxiety, depression, and insomnia. His forlorn audience tempers dismay at the early ...
Pret-a-Porter: more than 250 years ago, these beauties brought a man's wardrobe up to snuff.(New Acquisitions)
Sep 22, 2009; Kaellgren, Peter ... From the 18th to the mid-19th century, no gentleman would be caught dead without his snuff box. Though its purpose was to hold powdered tobacco for sniffing, a habit popular among the elite, the snuff box was as much accessory as necessity. Tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, silver, and gold ...
New chef at Food Studio: Joshna Maharaj brings community spirit as well as local, seasonal cooking to the ROM's family restaurant.(News)
Sep 22, 2009; Chatto, James ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The ROM Food Studio has a dynamic new chef. Joshna Maharaj took over the role this past summer and has already set the place on its toes. The same energy and tireless enthusiasm she brought to her previous job, running the kitchen at The Stop Community ...
Peking man revisited: ROM archaeologist finds that this hominid was smarter than we thought.(News)
Sep 22, 2009; ... ROM archaeologist Dr. Chen Shen is part of a team re-excavating the famed Zoukoudian Cave site in China, where in the 1920s the first skull of Peking Man was found. It was a watershed finding--it confirmed for scientists that this hominid was related closely enough to us to add the "Homo" ...
Drawing room: from her Queen's Park studio, this ROM artist put her creative stamp on the Museum's galleries.(From the Archives)
Sep 22, 2009; Smith, Arthur ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Visitors to the Museum can still appreciate the talents of former ROM artist Sylvia Hahn (1911-2001), seen in this archival photograph in her studio overlooking Queen's Park. Hahn's murals adorn the Museum's Grecian and ...
Vishnu's European look: the problem with designing by gossip.(Ask an Expert)
Sep 22, 2009; Dewan, Deepali ... Q nearly 50 years ago, i bought a series of illustrations entitled The Transformations of Vishnu in a used bookstore in Venice, italy. would anyone at the Museum be able to direct me to information on the provenance of these illustrations? --Carl A., Ottawa, Ontario ...
The hunt for extraterrestrials: what I found in a Saskatchewan farmer's field.(Field Notes)
Sep 22, 2009; Tait, Kim ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On November 20, 2008, at 5:26 pm, as many were making their way home after work, thousands of people in central Canada witnessed a burning fireball streak across the sky. Based on the size of the fireball, which was captured on security cameras and private ...
Sewing up the history of Madagascar's textiles: a ROM curator enters a little-known island world to document the rites and rituals around funerary cloth.(Our Curators)
Sep 22, 2009; Jack, Lee-Anne ... To the villagers in Androy, Madagascar, it was clear that Sarah Fee's mother had done a bad job raising her. She couldn't carry water on her head, spin cotton, or chop firewood without endangering her toes. Many of them had no conception that Madagascar was an island, and a white, single ...
Where in the world are they? The who, what, and where from our international curatorial team.
Sep 22, 2009; ... SURINAME [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Burton Lim ASSISTANT CURATOR Mammalogy Tepui is a local Amerindian word that refers to the flat-topped mountains found in the Guiana Shield of northern South America. Last year, Burton Lim led a ...
Magical properties: uncovering the long-forgotten: the potent origins of a simple red jug.
Sep 22, 2009; Ruehrdanz, Karin ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Soon after I joined the Museum two years ago, a simple red jug in the ROM's collections began to intrigue me. For drama, it didn't come close to a dinosaur skeleton or an Egyptian Book of the Dead. It had no immediately apparent artistic or historical ...
Spiders & beetles & moths: unwelcome guests, tiny creatures have a long and inventive history of colonizing our homes.
Sep 22, 2009; ... oh my! Museum entomologists receive a steady flow of questions about the small creatures that turn up in peoples' houses, especially old houses. Even in our sanitized modern world, everyone has experience with them. The unexpected intimacy of sharing one's home with these tiny ...
A shot at fame: how photography stoked the star-making machinery of celebrity.
Sep 22, 2009; Smith, Russell ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Before we had celebrities we had the merely famous. Albert Einstein, photographed by Martin Hohlig for the society magazine Vanity Fair in 1923, was famous for his scientific theories. His dusty, even slightly frayed, felt suit is meant to convey sobriety ...
Liquid gold: modern chefs find sweet inspiration in this tangy stalwart of the ancient world.(Cuisine & Culture)
Sep 22, 2009; Chatto, James ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An olive grove is the best place to be in the motionless heat of a Mediterranean afternoon. The piercing white glare of the sun is fractured into a myriad particles of light and shadow. The ground is a carpet of last ...
Hosting a celeb-worthy soiree: glitz and glamour are back on the menu.(Shopping)
Sep 22, 2009; Dias, Denise ... With the stardust still settling from this year's Toronto International Film Festival and the holiday season fast approaching, party planners and hip hostesses are cooking up creative ways to entertain this season. Whether you're preparing an elaborate dinner party or a simple ...
Identifying Ontario's biodiversity: how field guides help conserve endangered species.(Backyard Biodiversity)
Sep 22, 2009; Burridge, Mary ... Ontario is blessed with a wealth of biodiversity, hardly surprising considering its size and diverse habitats. The province's more than a million square kilometres stretch from Pelee Island in the south--at the same latitude as northern California--to Fort Severn in the far northwest--at ...
Friendly fungi.(KidStuff!)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Most fungi live in soil, unlike this sample growing in a Petri dish. Many are invisible to the human eye, but they are excellent decomposers of organic material ...
New name for quick-change artist.(KidStuff!)
Sep 22, 2009; Lathrop, Amy ... In late May, the ROM held a contest to name the most recent scaly creature to be added to the live room in the Hands On Biodiversity Gallery--a veiled chameleon. From more than 350 entries, we selected the name Presto Chango, submitted by 5-year-old Sam Wyonch from Mississauga, Ontario ....
And the winner is ...(KidStuff!)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Last summer, junior shutterbugs entered the MYROM Kids' Photo Contest for weekly prizes and a chance at the grand prize: a junior photo internship with the ROM's professional photographer, behind-the-scenes Museum ...
