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 ›
Just recently Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting TV show was released on YouTube. I think it is safe to say that most everyone who knows of Bob Ross was excited to hear that news. I remember when I was a kid watching an episode of Bob Ross’ show for the first time. I was completely mesmerized. […]Read Post ›
Throughout my undergraduate career, I have had very few academic experiences that fundamentally changed the way that I saw the world and myself in it (I could probably count that number on one hand). However, one such event occurred last spring in my Disneyland seminar: when I was introduced to the philosophies of Modernism and Postmodernism. […]Read Post ›
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 ›
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 ›
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