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We need more allies against cultural appropriation.

By Tiffany Chan Edited by Morgan Moore and Catherine Harlow It’s prom season and you may have seen a recent viral story gracing the internet about a girl (of non-East Asian descent) who chose a Chinese qipao as her prom gown. This story took the social internet by storm after it was brought to the […]Read Post ›

Profiles in Art: Jasmine, Joy, and Dana from Unravel: A Fashion Podcast

This week on Profiles, we have the privilege of sitting down with fashion historians and the hosts of Unravel: A Fashion Podcast. We talked to them about their paths into fashion academia, how the art world should change, and how we can get there.

Profiles in Art: Jean Wang of Extra Petite

Jean Wang is the founder of Extrapetite.com, a blog that started as a resource for a consumer base  typically outside the focus of the fashion houses and designers. Based in Boston, Jean has been writing about fashion, lifestyle and travel for over seven years. She sat down with us to talk about her transition from […]Read Post ›

Aesthetics of Excess: Rococo Revisited

In the current sociopolitical climate, I’ve been engaging with art that explicitly  functions as psychological release or as a social or political agent. Art can take a stand, art can unite and art can heal.  But is there still room to think about art that is simply for looking at?  Can art be cosmetic instead […]Read Post ›

Makeup, Social Expectations, and the Construction of Identity

  I have a love-hate relationship with makeup.  I think most women who wear makeup have similar feelings as mine.  Like most, I have long felt the expectation that women are supposed to be “presentable,” if not as beautiful as possible, when out in public.  This means having flawless skin at a minimum.  Many of […]Read Post ›

Art as an Unfinished Series: My Visit to “Visiting Masterpieces: Pairing Picasso”

Last weekend, I viewed the “Visiting Masterpieces: Pairing Picasso” exhibit, which is available until June 26, 2016, in the Lee Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. The exhibit features five paired works that artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) created at the height of his career between the 1900s and the 1960s. Upon […]Read Post ›

My Frenemy: Nydia

In all my travels, I’ve seen her at least three times.Each time, we end up being in an odd spot where I feel bad for her, but also impressed by her beauty. I stare at her face, the smooth marble finished so perfectly and her expression so intense. I could spend few true minutes uninterrupted […]Read Post ›

Lady Louisa Greville: One of the Many Unknown Artists

(This was originally written as a justification of a purchase for an object collected by the Davis Museum. The full text may be found by viewing the object file. This is part of a Monthly Series of focusing on Female Artists by Claire Milldrum.) In the 18th century, women faced particularly difficult challenges to build […]Read Post ›

More than ‘Just’ Lipstick: Why Contemporary Make-up and Fashion deserve Your Academic Attention

Lights, runways, glamour-these are the words that typically come to mind when one thinks about ‘Fashion Week’. But what about appropriation, racism and privilege? Because those are just as prevalent but much less talked about.

The Green Lady at the Davis Museum

A Joshua Reynolds painting at the Davis Museum recently had a symposium on its research. Here’s a bit of back story of the preliminary research.

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