(This is an edited version of a justification of an acquisition at the Davis Museum. The original can be found in the object file for 2014.127.1-.7. The works were on display at the Davis from Sept 16 to Dec 13 2015 and are part of a book edited by Dr. Claire Whitner.) Käthe Kollwitz (born 1867 in […]Read Post ›
If you had asked grade school Tiffany what her biggest pet peeve was, it would have been the inability to build more than two squares out from the walls on the Sims. But to be fair, the game developers were just using the rules of physics that builders had used for hundreds of years-until 20th […]Read Post ›
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.
As our readers, you all know it’s no secret how much we at The Female Gaze love the arts. It’s also no secret just how deeply entwined love and art are; love, lust, lovers, and love stories have been popular subjects for centuries in cultures around the world. Tender, poignant, tragic, sensual, and humorous representations […]Read Post ›
It’s that time of year again, when ‘Let It Go‘ blasts from every loudspeaker across every mall across America. But there’s more to Frozen, and its queen, than meets the eye.
During the holidays it is customary for us in the States to make our seasonal sojourns home, either to families and friends or simply to have a short respite from the work of our everyday lives. Considering the home is how I first fell in love with the study of architecture and I still find domestic architecture […]Read Post ›
This is the first installment of a series we are trying at the Female Gaze where we revisit the first essays related to Art History that we wrote. I originally came to Wellesley thinking I would be a Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies double major, but took Writing in Art History for my first-year […]Read Post ›
I freely admit that I am more than a little biased about Rome. Two years ago, I lived in the Eternal City for ten weeks and the experience left an incredible impression on me. One of the most striking features of the cityscape is the great visibility of its “layers” – as the capital of […]Read Post ›
From the 800s BCE through the 600s BCE, the ancient world experienced the rise of the Neo-Assyrian empire, which expanded from its centers at Nimrud and Nineveh (Iraq) along the Tigris and Euphrates west to the Syro-Phoenician coastline (modern day Lebanon and Syria) and east to modern-day Iran. As a military power house, the Assyrians […]Read Post ›
Trigger Warning: Mentions of SV When Bill Bryson found success with his writing in the late 90’s, there was a surge in the number of trail memoirs published. Then in 2012, when Cheryl Strayed released Wild, the doors opened for women in the genre. A few days ago I finished reading the memoir Girl In […]Read Post ›
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