It’s Brave to Quit the Museum Field: Part One
The museum is highly problematic, but we normalize it. But we shouldn’t.
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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 ›
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 ›
Why We Love Hamilton, A Musical About Men
Alexander Hamilton’s life story, for all its drama, was always an unlikely source for a smash hit on Broadway. Hamilton favored rule by the elite in an already elitist society. He was adulterous, impulsive and privileged. But Lin-Manuel Miranda, like many musical theatre composers before him, saw in this unlikely source the chance to reform […]Read Post ›
Minds at Work: The Secret Lives of the Schuyler Sisters
Lin-Manuel Miranda was first introduced to the Schuyler sisters while on vacation.
Helpless: Why Aren’t We Talking about Gender in Hamilton?
“We are living in the age of Hamilton,” admitted Annette Gordon-Reed at a recent book talk. Reed’s comment is surprising: she’s a leading scholar on Thomas Jefferson, Hamilton’s rival. But her praise is not; nowadays, everyone loves Hamilton.
“It’s Kind of a Joke, but It’s Also Real.”: Why Broad City had to Change to Stay the Same
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 ›
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 ›
Lady Louisa Greville: One of the Many Unknown Artists
(This was originally written as a justification of a purchase for an object collected by the Davis Museum. The full text may be found by viewing the object file. This is part of a Monthly Series of focusing on Female Artists by Claire Milldrum.) In the 18th century, women faced particularly difficult challenges to build […]Read Post ›
Little Wendy in the Big City
Although I have always considered myself a Bostonian, I have never lived in the city proper-until now.
