A docent was leading a tour group around the grounds.
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The docent pointed out the dots and stripes on the potsherds.
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"Imagine if that happened today," the docent leading my tour marveled.
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She also gives talks as a museum docent and teaches art classes.
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The bride's mother is a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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"He's hiding from Chuck," Tamar Owens, a volunteer docent at the zoo, said.
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On a recent visit, a docent, Quenton Byers, 29, gave me a tour.
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They occasionally discussed the pieces of art together or asked the docent questions.
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Others listened intently as a docent talked about the sounds that bees make.
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The groom's mother is a docent at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
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Her mother was a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.
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Mr. Moore now volunteers here as a NASA emeritus Docent at the Center.
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Her mother is a docent at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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His mother was a docent at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.
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Cill sneaked into a tour in progress, following a docent from sepulchre to sepulchre.
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Using docent-speak, she blurred a fictional and "real" experience of the art museum.
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That museum operated its first 5 years at the Holladay residence with docent-led tours.
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His mother is a French teacher and a docent at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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"Is this your first visit to the Museum of Sex?" a docent asked Griffin Dunne.
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She is also retired as a docent with the San Francisco Modern Museum of Art.
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The docent smiled at me like she was worried I might be about to stroke out.
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Ron calls Gary "the greatest docent of Mets history," but encyclopedic knowledge isn't necessarily a virtue.
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In late July, he is to become a docent at the Fraunces Tavern Museum in Manhattan.
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"Oh, that should be locked," said the docent, but she was catching up and looking all concerned.
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When I first sat down on the piece, in a meditative pose, a museum docent walked by.
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Outside tournament time, docent "storytellers" will take you on a free golf cart tour around the course.
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It was like living in a relationship pain museum; I was the docent giving tours to no one.
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Alternatively, science-, art-, or history-minded folks might consider working as a museum tour guide, researcher, docent or educator.
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A docent tells visitors about the conditions of Davis's imprisonment after the war, describing it as tantamount to "torture".
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He is so committed to the site that he volunteers as a docent in the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
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At each venue, a curator or docent will lead us through the exhibitions and illuminate the artwork on view.
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Sunday afternoon tours of the mansion resume in June; docent-led tours are available at other times by appointment.
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This past April, Docent took place at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, which will be shuttering this fall.
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When she retired at 91, she looked for volunteer work, becoming a docent at the New York Public Library.
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"I'm glad I got 'The Lizards' and 'The Sloth,'" said the young docent I went with on Saturday night.
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Bessemer Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Maverick Capital Ventures have invested $2.1 million in seed funding in Docent.
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Handing my purse to a docent, I elbow my way in, climbing over balloons and spiking them into the air.
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The docent reported back that many visitors thought it was sound amplified from the other floors of the museum itself.
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Out of school for the summer and keeping his father company, Josiah has become something of a self-appointed docent.
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At the slightest prompting, he would begin unfolding the stories behind each item with the effortless fluency of a docent.
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"Local boy does good," said a well-meaning docent to a passing tour group during my visit, and I winced.
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Visitors can experience a guided "eyes-closed" tour on certain days of the immersive sound installation, led by a docent.
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Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman changes from some sort of art docent in white to a fierce warrior with cuffs of steel.
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If you'd prefer a livelier in-person docent-led walking tour, the cemetery started hosting these three years ago as well.
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Like any other docent, Pepper, of course, should be treated with respect, so Hyperallergic also asked what its preferred pronouns are.
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At age five, we moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and my mother worked as a docent at the High Museum of Art.
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The special staffers will come from the hospital, Docent or both, in a mix that will vary depending on the deal.
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Plan ahead: At noon each day, a docent will lead a free jazz history tour of the neighborhood, departing from the museum.
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Presenting Graham as a forerunner to feminist theorists diminishes her, though the lecture-demonstration enlivens when the dancers assault the affable docent.
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The docent says it probably went through but when we get home and check our credit card statement we don't see it.
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The docent was careful to talk about Carr's close relationship with "the First Nations," the popular term in Canada for Indigenous people.
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Ms. Adlon launches into the story of how she acquired the painting "Wine Fine" like a punk docent riffing in her own museum.
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She is also a docent at the Brooklyn Museum, participates in a cooperative art gallery and assists her husband's business by entertaining customers.
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The groom's mother is a master docent with the Phoenix Art Museum; she retired as a middle school teacher with the Southfield, Mich.
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"What if visitors could see, handle, manipulate, and share digital doppelgängers of real objects, or share the attentions of a docent avatar?" she posits.
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At $89, it may be a bit pricier than a local docent-led cemetery tour, but imagine the Instas you'll be able to snap.
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She left the world of finance and volunteered for two years as a docent at the 9/11 tribute museum to share her experiences.
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So what's different here is that in a typical situation the information is being given by a museum docent, who's almost exclusively a sighted person.
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Once we arrived, Anadol waited as the docent explained his process to visitors oblivious to the fact they were in the presence of the artist.
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Mr. Margiela is its "artistic director," not only its presiding genius but also its guiding docent, painting every bit of makeup and body print himself.
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Back out in the rain, a frazzled docent handed out maps, directing us to proceed around the block to the front door for part two.
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Guests will also be driven to the architect's Taliesin Home and Studio for a two-hour docent-led walking tour that includes a box lunch.
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He could see things about the Bog Girl to which this batty docent would be totally blind—for example, the secret depths her smile concealed.
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The Blanton Museum of Art acquired Sonya Clark's "Madam C.J. Walker" (22016), largely through the fundraising efforts of local businesswoman, museum board member, and docent Marilyn Johnson.
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Did I feel so incredibly special when I, escorted by a uniformed docent, walked speedily past the inert glut of sweating humans in the "regular admission" queue?
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In that situation, I would pretend to be a docent, and just go from one painting to another, telling outlandish stories about them and making people laugh.
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Her mother is a docent at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Hobson, 35, is an assistant United States attorney in Manhattan.
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It's locked into place with an electromagnetic field; occasionally a docent will push a button to disrupt that field so a "worthy" exhibit visitor succeeds in lifting it.
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Visitors can first get a sense of Boscobel's history in an exhibition in the Carriage House Reception Center before embarking on a docent-led tour of the house.
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This delightfully trippy concept art shows a flotilla of drones exploring Venus's atmosphere, an idea suggested by Alexander Rodin, docent of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
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He is the son of Ellen M. Simon and Dr. Stanley R. Simon of Livingston, N.J. The groom's mother is a docent at the Newark Museum in Newark.
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Sonia Agron, now a docent for the museum, is a former EMS specialist who volunteered with the American Red Cross at a respite center near the World Trade Center.
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When we get to New York, she tells everyone — from the Uber driver to the waiter to the docent at the Brooklyn Museum — that she used to live here.
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Jan. 12-March 21 Five staff members from the museum — including a gallery docent and a retail employee — combed the institution's reserve collection to choose the works for this show.
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As I returned to the museum entrance the elderly docent who'd processed my credentials two hours ago welcomed me with a smile that demonstrated she'd completely forgotten who I was.
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The party he gave his life to will repudiate him by nominating a bombastic serial insulter who makes the famously brash former president look like a museum docent by comparison.
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When Docent was described to them, some advocates for "patient-centered" medicine were cautious about how much could be accomplished by focusing on the non-clinical aspects of hospital care.
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The voice of a female docent interrupts the narrator to chirpily explain that the dinosaurs were simply "there and then they weren't" before instructing patrons to exit through the gift shop.
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And the firm has a long history of investing in healthcare, including early bets on companies like Allena Pharmaceuticals, Docent Health and publicly traded companies including OvaScience, Verastem and Flex Pharma.
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Greenhand has been creative since he was a kid, painting, molding clay, and drawing with surplus art supplies gleaned from his mother, who traveled the school district as an art docent.
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Mr. Carroll's latest novel begins with Father Kavanagh's chance encounter with Rachel Vedette, a docent at the Metropolitan Museum's composite of several individual cloisters transplanted from Europe to Fort Tryon Park.
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I had never seen white people as being poor, and the way she [the docent] talked about his mark-making and these women working in the fields with these arched backs.
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She marched her children around English stately homes and told us the history of these places, in loud, confident tones; we sometimes feared that she might be mistaken for a docent.
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This format, however, felt very abrupt, so I wanted a way of making the information work together, which is how I decided to position myself within the text as a docent.
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Donna Darby, a Kykuit docent who led me on a tour of the estate, praised the work of William Welles Bosworth, who designed the gardens and influenced the grandeur of the house.
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ROSLYN HARBOR "Brown Bag Lecture": Riva Ettus, a Nassau County Museum of Art docent, speaks about Kenny Scharf, whose works, at the forefront of the urban street art movement, are on view.
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We took a walking tour and visited the Bermudian Heritage Museum, where we chatted with its charming docent, and the perfumery (perfume being one of the few truly made-in-Bermuda souvenirs).
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Graduates of this program are prepared to take on positions as administrative and education directors, curators/directors of education, development and fundraising officers, event planners, docent/volunteer coordinators, and community-relationship coordinators.
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One of the shocking things about the map our docent distributed of the Met in 1967 is how much of the current gallery space was given over to storage rooms back then.
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Around the age of 20, while still living in Calgary, Davachi worked at a museum for musical instruments where she worked as a docent of sorts, offering tours to people who'd come through.
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When the docent Delores Heglar, 71, is giving a tour, she likes to spend a little extra time explaining the Louisiana Purchase and its devastating effect on the city's free people of color.
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To keep up with rent in my Bed-Stuy sublet, I worked part-time as a barista, a docent, and a studio assistant, and I scanned family photos for a wealthy Upper West Side couple.
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Each hotel (there are also locations in Cincinnati; Durham, N.C.; and Bentonville, Ark.) employs a curator, and the museum at each is free and often holds events like docent tours and yoga in the galleries.
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One museum docent was leading a tour when a door to the servants' chambers opened and she found herself face to face with a woman "clearly not of this time and place," Mr. Bellov said.
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Nearly always, my companions and I were the only visitors; the staff, who combined the roles of receptionist, curator, docent and locker-up-at-night, appeared faintly shellshocked that anyone had stopped by at all.
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In her six years as a member, Pat Knazze, 66, has taken line dancing and piano lessons and participated in over 50 seminars via Skype, including architecture classes that helped her qualify as a neighborhood docent.
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I have the docent I spoke with to thank for informing me that Otterson (along with the other artists displayed in Live/Work) talked about his practice in a looped video playing near the main desk.
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During the pedestrian tour "Chicago Architecture: A Walk Through Time" ($26), the docent Eileen Jacobs moved quickly from the city's origins as a 17th-century fur trading post to the Great Fire that left 100,000 homeless.
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If Docent is to accomplish its avowed mission of providing VIP service for everyone while improving hospitals' financials, it will have to show that it is more than just another concierge medical service for the wealthy.
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A museum docent described Open Plan as Chief Curator Scott Rothkopf's desire to present "a striptease of the building," highlighting the supposed transparency between public and private spaces that architect Renzo Piano intended for the entire structure.
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As a docent for the Municipal Art Society, I often quote E. B. White's description of the three types of New Yorkers (natives, commuters and immigrants) and consider Manhattan my "city of final destination," in White's words.
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Indeed, according to planetary scientist Alexander Rodin, docent of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Venus can shed light on everything from climate change on Earth to the discovery and characterization of exoplanets orbiting other stars.
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"Richard Sherman pulled me from my shift as a docent in the 49ers Museum to give me a personal check for $7,491.27 to cover Cabrillo Middle School's cafeteria debt," school principal Stan Garber said in a statement.
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Staggering about town, often half-drunk by midafternoon, she serves as a docent to tragedy and all that follows: the media swarms, the rallies, the memorials, the political infighting, the blip of a presidential visit, the hashtags.
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Robert Williams, 22007, center, traces sunspots on a projected image of the sun as docent Bob Eklund, Nora DeMuth, left, and Robert's mother Jeanette Klein, right, watch in the Snow Horizontal Solar Telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory.
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The exact number is unknown because successful passage on the Underground Railroad meant it was undocumented, Dewey Scott, a docent at the John P. Parker House in Ripley, pointed out when I took a tour there in December.
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The plots involve deception, gut-wrenching timing and concealed explosives: a bomb in a gift package, a rigged docent conducting a tour of captured Russian weaponry and an explosive briefcase spirited into the heart of Hitler's fortress, the Wolfsschanze.
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The incident occurred on September 17, when a parent volunteer was invited to help teach an art lesson to 6th graders at Del Paso Manor Elementary School as part of the San Juan Unified School District's Art Docent Program.
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When she died and Ms. Kalman and her sister, Kika Schoenfeld, an artist, hat maker and interior designer, were cleaning out her apartment, Ms. Kalman joked that their mother's closet should be a museum and Ms. Schoenfeld its docent.
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A few years ago, he told me as we made our way into a ballroom, he'd been working as a docent at a silver mine in the mountains when J.J. Walker, founder of My 2420, went on one of his trips.
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But the Smithsonian is taking precaution to ensure Pepper does not run amok or get into harms way, requiring that each one out on the floor is always with a museum educator or docent (and don't worry, Pepper can't actually move).
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How health coaches can disrupt transform and improve primary care Recognizing this giant gap in the market, startups such as Iora Health, Oak Street, Omada, Docent, ChenMed, WellMed, Landmark Health, and Aledade are gaining traction with a model known as holistic care teams.
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Yet because no cats are visible and information about the piece is available only from a docent or pamphlet at the front desk, the videos activate their social commentary through an abstract subversion of the conventional notions of adult human-scale space.
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The house has a fascinating history of opulence, abandonment and resurrection, which the docent will share as you start in the Toshiko Mori-designed glass pavilion and are then guided through the 228,2414-square-foot home (one- and two-hour tours, $2180 and $4443).
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The new company, called Docent Health, is creating software and mobile applications that will help organize and monitor every aspect of an individual's hospital visit, and marrying that technology with specially trained staff who will be in constant communication with patients about their needs.
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He is a son of Michele S. Podell and Dr. Paul N. Podell of Scarsdale, N.Y. The groom's mother is a docent at Sunnyside, the historic home of Washington Irving in Tarrytown, N.Y. His father is a retired psychiatrist who had practices in Manhattan and Scarsdale.
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With the docent oozing concerned utterances in my general direction, I fled through Mangakāhia's rhizomes and caught a ferry back to the sliver of shipping container I'd reserved on the Marion Barry Inlet (of course I didn't tell my mom I was in town, fuck's sake).
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And although the "green-skinned witch" as a trope only dates back to 1939's Wizard of Oz, when dyeing Margaret Hamilton's skin was a novel special effect to capitalize on the then-new use of Technicolor, my docent presents several other options as equally valid.
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She graduated from Yale and received a master's degree in clinical research and a medical degree from N.Y.U. She is a daughter of Nancy J. Mrazek and Judge Drain of Scarsdale, N.Y. The bride's mother is a docent at the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College.
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He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received a law degree magna cum laude from N.Y.U. He is a son of Elaine M. DeLaney and Gerald V. DeLaney of Medford, N.J. The groom's mother is a senior docent at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Through the Elsewhere Society's initiation process, Peter is united with Simone (Eve Lindley), an art museum docent struggling with what appears to be social anxiety; Janice (Sally Field), whose life partner was recently rendered unresponsive by a stroke; and Fredwynn (André Benjamin), a genius with an affinity for conspiracies.
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For a man who would rather remain in his own bedroom than venture abroad, President Donald Trump this week appeared to savor the sightseeing aspects of his visit to Europe, where foreign counterparts eager to instill a sense of weighted history in the President (and his extended family) played tour guide and docent.
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Run by volunteers and housed in a landmark school building, this museum uses photos, models, pieces of boats and voice-over from a docent to demonstrate how the island's yacht- and boat-building industries evolved over the years, at times producing U.S. military vessels for the world wars and later crafting champion racing sloops for the America's Cups.
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Originally conceived by New York-based executive search and healthcare investment firm Oxeon Holdings, Docent aims to capitalize on two massive changes now sweeping the healthcare world: the shift toward paying providers for keeping people healthy rather than performing procedures, and the technology-driven "consumerization" of health that is putting more decision-making in the hands of patients.
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Even after a 10-year stint as a tricorn hat–clad "junior docent" at the Gilbert Stuart Birthplace in Rhode Island, I still find myself lulled into a nearly comatose state after spending a good chunk of time among the uniformly pallid, elegantly attired men and women who stare out imperiously from within their gilded frames.
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It's more than a video, because the piece screens in a space containing chrome partitions raked at an angle that mimics the skin of the Museum building in which it is installed, and, as a carefully attentive docent tells me, the door to the second channel — playing in an adjacent room — won't open any further than its four- or five-inch aperture.
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A security guard came out from behind his desk and advised me — docent-like and rather proudly — to pay attention to the way the colors of Mr. Turrell's environment begin changing from the front of the lobby, where the daylight meets the interior light, and surge slowly back toward the elevators, where a wall panel bleeds from dark purples to blues to greens.
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And since it arrived, in addition to his typical duties of keeping hundreds of thousands of tourists, locals, sightseeing bus ticket hawkers, Elmos and Mickey Mice from running over each other, Mr. Dorsey has been a kind of docent, explaining the piece to anyone who seems curious or puzzled about the artwork soaring in front of the American Eagle store.
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Emily Pope Hermans, Docent Program Manager at Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens at Museum of Fine Art, couldn't be more appreciative of the doors that opened for her after graduating from the program: "The MEP gave me the opportunity to form deep connections with other museum educators and to gain a better understanding of the intricacies and complexities of the field," Hermans said.
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While it's true that Hoefnagel did not operate in a vacuum and that the mention of his amici, "friends," is essential for comprehending the way he operated, it becomes challenging to keep track of the differences between, say, Abraham Ortelius (a cartographer), Lucas de Heere (a rhetorician, poet, and visual artist with a penchant for the motto damna docent, "harm teaches you"), and Emmanuel van Meteren, a historian.
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During my recent visit there, Mr. Wentz gamely played docent: the former street artist Shepard Fairey's portrait of his wife ("right before the Obama poster"); a watercolor by José Parlá, another former graffiti star and painter of the One World Trade Center mural; a moody canvas by the pop provocateur Yayoi Kusama; and refrigerator-size paintings by the artist and entrepreneur KAWS (Brian Donnelly) that subvert SpongeBob and the Smurfs.
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Proust's essay, gracefully translated by Jennie Feldman, takes the form of an imaginary journey to the Louvre, "through the La Caze room and the gallery of eighteenth-century French painters," where the author projects himself as a docent attempting to open the eyes of the imaginary "young man of modest means and artistic inclinations" to the work of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, whose canvases transform everyday life — the source of the young man's "unease and ennui" — into visions of transcendent beauty.
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