Broad City, a Comedy Central critical darling, took a deeply serious turn from its usual witty surrealism in the recent season three episode “Burning Bridges.” Best friends Abbi and Ilana have spent the series navigating their twenties in New York and getting into increasingly silly and consequence-free hijinks, but season three has been a slow […]Read Post ›
Photography, for many reasons, has always been ever so slightly more available to women. It was such a new medium, without the systems of training being set up for centuries like they were in painting or sculpture. While it meant that photography had to fight for its place in the art world, it also meant […]Read Post ›
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 ›
Pretty Little Liars debuted in 2010 as a teenage murder mystery soap, loosely based on Sara Shepard’s book series of the same name. After the mysterious disappearance of their friend Alison, four estranged friends reunite when they receive threatening texts from “A,” who seems to be posing as the missing Alison. After five and a […]Read Post ›
(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 ›
A little while ago some of the other writers and I had a conversation about the validity of art as a serious discipline when one of our writers encountered someone who completely dismissed the idea that science and art could both be asking the same questions. The other writers and I agreed that science and […]Read Post ›
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 ›
I love finding the dead. Not in a way that will start the apocalypse or American Horror Story. Instead, it’s historical research. I’m finding people who had loose ends, who left a story behind tied to some event or object in a museum to have a deeper understanding. It’s about resolving the past […]Read Post ›
Before I opened this article, I was skeptical because the Artnet News Facebook page described it as “Your favorite Klimt paintings, transformed into high-end fashion photography.” High-end fashion photography tends to either be trendy and chic or ridiculous and overdone. However, upon opening the link and seeing Inge Prader’s photographs in comparison with the paintings, I […]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 ›
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