I waited a quarter of a century. My love for the Dutch artist, Rembrandt, began in my early twenties, and ever since then, I had had my heart set on traveling to the Netherlands to see his famous painting The Night Watch. Six weeks ago, the day finally came. I walked […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]