May 2013
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“The exhibition is not a simple exploration of life and health; it also means to...”
– Edward Rothstein, “Comfortable Out of Their Own Skin: Exhibition Review of ‘Body Worlds: Pulse’ at Discovery Times Square, The New York Times, May 9, 2013.
To read more about the spectacle and morbidity of this anatomy exhibition, click here.
For my HIST 469 peers: you might be...
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Student Docents Guide Community Through Allen...
Written by Elizabeth Kuhr (OC ‘14)
In the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s (AMAM) Ellen Johnson contemporary gallery, student docent Julia Melfi gathers the Eastwood Elementary School’s first graders into a circle.
“Let’s give the art personal space, please don’t touch,” says Melfi, a sophomore art history and theater double major. The elementary schoolers immediately silence, and turn...
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April 2013
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30 Most Beautiful College Art Galleries →
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Docents at the Allen Memorial Art Museum
When giving a VTS* museum tour to 1st graders (who are probably drooling and licking the natural salt off their hands), I’m all…
*Visual Thinking Strategies
Courtesy of amamblog via whatshouldwecallarthistory
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OBERLIN DRAG BALL: SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a Taxi, 1991. Photograph by Nan Goldin.
I need a Drag Ball ticket ~ I’ve never been able to go, and I’m graduating in May, so it’s my last chance!
I got a voucher (so you know I’m serious) but tickets sold out before I could grab one! Will pay $$$ - If you have one to sell or know someone who has an extra ticket, please let me know:...
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The Weight of a Nightmare: Latin American History,...
To HIST 469:
One of my closest friends and housemates, Sofia LeBlanc (‘13), will be participating in this year’s Senior Symposium. She will be on a panel moderated by Prof. O’Connor (Hispanic Studies dept.), entitled “The Weight of a Nightmare: Making Sense of History in Guatemala, Chile, and Argentina,” along with Maggie Paulin and Alexis Burdick-Will. Her talk, a...
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Little Boxes: Architecture & Filmic Space in...
Pausing at this iconic image of a modern corporate interior, I couldn’t help but think of “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds, a song about the cheap generic architecture (and corresponding culture) of American suburbia in the 1960s. Of course, the song critiques the cookie-cutter housing complexes “on the hillside,” whereas the office vignette in Playtime focuses on...
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Oberlin College Commencement Speaker 2013: Tracy...
The speaker for my college graduation is Tracy Chevalier (OC ‘84), author of the bestselling book on Johannes Vermeer’s iconic work from 1665, Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999). In 2003, the book was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson.
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Bill Hood (who taught Renaissance Art History at... →
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr, I wanted to share this wonderful NYTimes article by an Oberlin Art History professor emeritus. Entitled “My Dinner With Dr. King,” the article poignantly relays an anecdote about MLK and his genuine humility. Please read & share.
Photo credit: Time Magazine
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Thomas Demand and Collective / Institutional...
To Prof. Volk and my peers in HIST 469,
The above photograph, taken by Thomas Demand (German, b. 1964) in 1995, is entitled Archive and serves as a reconstructed visual memory of an actual historical archive - that of Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003). As a prominent propagandist artist in Nazi Germany, Riefenstahl created films that glorified the Third Reich, placing the regime within a...
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March 2013
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NO FLUFF IN THEIR STUFF: MUSEUM GUARDS REVIEW ART... →
Written by Xavier Aaronson during the 2012 Whitney Biennial, this article allows readers to see what museum guards actually think of the works they’re protecting. I thought this might be an interesting way to discuss accessibility in the museum space, particularly with Aaronson’s run-in with the Whitney’s PR policies.
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Discussion of Diversity in Art History
A Message from Bonnie Cheng, Art History Dept. Chair & Prof. of East Asian Studies:
Dear Art History Majors (and fans),
The Art History faculty would like to invite you to a pizza lunch this Thursday 3/14 around noon in the seminar room (172). The reason for the meeting is twofold. First, we would like to discuss with you the question of diversity in art history and how we as a department...
