Each of the writers here, on The Female Gaze, are people that are just starting or about to start their careers. Most of us want to find our homes in the arts, so we have become deeply acquainted with the consequences of long standing traditions. One is the tendency of museums, archives and galleries to […]Read Post ›
Today, the Ancient Near East is in vogue. Da’esh has popularized concern about Antiquities by publishing propagandist videos about their destruction of monuments and artifacts in both Iraq and Syria. Many who keep up with the art market are also familiar with the influx of artifacts from that region finding their way into galleries and […]Read Post ›
I’ve just moved to Ann Arbor, about 40 minutes from the Motor City. I had hoped for Detroit, but it would have been too much. The fear of being mugged, or having my apartment broken into was overwhelming. And there lies the problem I face today, as a college educated white woman from the suburbs […]Read Post ›
Author’s note: This article is excerpted from my independent study project that I undertook for my art history major in my senior year at Wellesley College. My project involved researching nineteenth-century sculptor Anne Whitney, who had close connections with Wellesley, and I produced catalog entries for seven of her sculptures that the College is home […]Read Post ›
It’s not a secret that Hollywood creates very few movies with female protagonists outside of the romance genre. This is based off of the archaic yet pervasive idea that self-reliant woman leads do not sell tickets. Reese Witherspoon and her business partner Bruna Papandrea aim to disrupt this widespread sexist notion through the creation of […]Read Post ›
I first saw the film Kiki’s Delivery Service as a four-year-old at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The 1989 animated film by the Japanese company Studio Ghibli had won many accolades domestically, been dubbed into English by Disney and launched onto the international film scene. Kiki’s Delivery Service tells the story of a […]Read Post ›
I recently returned from a visit to London for a family vacation, and naturally several of the great London museums were on our itinerary. As someone who has interned with various museums in the US, and visited others as an art history student, I was interested in London’s art scene.
in·ter·sec·tion·al·i·ty The study of intersections between forms of systems of oppression, domination and discrimination. This may seem like an elitist academic term that is thrown around for the sake of it, but it actually describes a concept that is quite simple. First coined by lawyer and scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, Intersectionality asks us to consider […]Read Post ›
Our culture has this Romantic idea of the artist as a solitary creative genius. As someone who is suddenly struck with an idea, disappears into her studio, and then miraculously emerges days later with a masterpiece. As the writer on staff with the most experience in creating art, I thought it appropriate to use my […]Read Post ›
In our culture there has been this constant interest in the lives of film actresses. We dig into their relationships, their friendships, and their beauty routines, but what a lot of people overlook is the good work that they do for society. This is especially apparent with classic actresses that we have put on pedestals […]Read Post ›
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