Why is Photography so inconsistently researched?
Photography doesn’t have a happy home like paintings and letters do in the research world. Let’s talk about why.
museums
The Art of Contemplation: The Cloisters
Machismo and Marchas: Gendered Art and Politics in Chile
As I rode the Santiago metro to the National Museum of Fine Arts, more than a couple men bumped into me. No matter how much it irritates me, it is something I’ve grown used to from living in cities. Though people talk about Latin American machismo, I haven’t noticed much of a difference in […]Read Post ›
People-Watching in Museums: On Portraits and Identity
Specters in Residence: Gardner & Guggenheim
Ghosts are not the stuff of fairytales. Vibrant personalities leave their impressions on the places they inhabit. Many of these spaces suffer destruction, alteration, redecoration—look at any number of “home museums” and you’ll find period furniture, recreating the ambiance of a place and time. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum looks a bit like a haunted […]Read Post ›
Can we just pay the interns?
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 ›
Cheers from London: Brief Reflections on London Museums and the 19th Century
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.
