It’s Brave to Quit the Museum Field: Part One
The museum is highly problematic, but we normalize it. But we shouldn’t.
Reflections
Profiles in Art: Rebecca Bedell
Rebecca Bedell is an Associate Professor of the Art of the United States, Art Department, Wellesley College. Professor Bedell is author of The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875 and the soon to be published Moved to Tears: Rethinking the Art of the Sentimental in the United States. She is also much beloved […]Read Post ›
Profiles in Art: The Female Gaze Team
Maybe you’ve seen our series “Profiles in Art” , which follows female professionals in the visual arts. But were you ever curious about the writers here at the Female Gaze? Wonder no more because this week we’re sitting down and answering the questions we’ve sent out to our interviewees. We are feminist scholars that all came […]Read Post ›
Profiles in Art: Colleen Hill
Colleen Hill is a fashion historian, author, and Curator of Costume and Accessories at The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). She is currently based in New York City. Q: What is your story? How did you fall in love with your current field of work/study? I’ve loved fashion since childhood, and my earliest […]Read Post ›
Daniela Rivera’s “The Andes Inverted” and Installing at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
At the beginning of March, I had the incredible opportunity to help with the installation of Daniela Rivera’s show, The Andes Inverted, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Andes Inverted is a response to Chile’s copper mine, Chuquicamata. The mine has been worked since before Columbus arrived in the Americas, and is now […]Read Post ›
Profiles in Art: Dahlia Al-Habieli
Dahlia Al-Habieli is a scenic designer, visual designer and instructor currently based in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Born and raised in Abu-Dhabi, Dahlia has credited the city for fostering her love of storytelling and focused her work on building connections between languages, cultures and genders. She has won numerous awards for her work including the Independent […]Read Post ›
10 Things I Learned Working in an Art Gallery
The Met in Transition
What does it mean, when the Met is in trouble?
From the Writers: Reflections on 2016
As 2016 draws to a close, we find ourselves looking not only towards a brighter 2017 but also upon that progress that we have made this year as writers, as a team and as human beings. Below are our reflections. Claire: Dealing with the classism that I used to perpetuate while also barely making rent. […]Read Post ›
Recommitting to our Mission: The 2016 Election
We, like many people who pull to the left, are stunned by the election. We are stunned by the systems that have created a path for a man who does not respect anyone but himself. We are scared for the sector we love, the arts. We are scared to be young and female bodied with […]Read Post ›
