Art and Apologetics “Self, 1991”, Marc Quinn at the Yale Center for British Arts, 2022 By Scarlett Clay British artist, Marc Quinn, began a series of self-portraits comprised of his blood in 1991, and creates a new blood-head every five years. He makes a mold of his head, fills it […]
Museum Visits
Kehinde Wiley’s “Judith and Holofernes” at the MFAH, 2023
Kehinde Wiley is a classically trained African American painter who attempts to remake the western canon of art. Since the history of European art predominantly features people with fair skin, Wiley attempts to rectify this perceived injustice by copying the Old Masters and replacing light-skinned people with dark-skinned people. In […]
Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin-Form Without Spirit
Walking toward the south end of campus, you’ll see a new building at the University of Texas. It’s a large bulbous looking structure near the Blanton Museum of Art, as you pass between the PCL building and Jester dorm. It looks like a giant igloo from the back–plain stone, bereft […]
Why Are Humans the Only Artists on Earth?
Wings of Many Colors
On my recent visit to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, I saw colorful wings! Many pieces of art in the medieval and Renaissance galleries feature angels with rainbow colored wings and feathers of many hues. I was immediately inspired by these gorgeous pieces. Here are some of the […]
Two Kinds of Museum Visitors
While working at an art museum, I have had the chance to observe thousands of people walk through the doors. During my brief foray into the museum studies program at Johns Hopkins, I took a course in Museum Education and read multiple studies in which social scientists tried to categorize […]
“Road Trippin'” at the Georgetown Art Center
I wasn’t allowed any captures of the newest exhibit at the Georgetown Art Center, but I’m going to tell you about it, anyway. The new exhibit is called “Road Trippin‘” and is enjoyable to view and family friendly. My young artists and I enjoyed all of the travel themed art, […]