Category Archives: Methodology
Sauerländer on art history today
The Brooklyn Rail a while back posted a lengthy interview with Willibald Sauerländer (with his afterthoughts) that is a must-read for anyone interested at all in art history or criticism. After walking us through his really quite fascinating (to me, … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Art History, Methodology
Preschoolers v. Clement Greenberg
Daniel Siedell writes another post of note, reflecting on the well-established (to my eyes, at least, being an art historical child of the double-aughts) rift between formalism and, for lack of a more specific generalization, contextualism. For the non-jargon inclined, formalism is … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Methodology, musems, Politics
“I’m so sick of hearing about Viagra”
Hey look, it turns out that academic peer review might be just as illogical as the regular business world. (The Art History Newsletter)
Filed under Methodology, Politics, Research
The Art Ghetto
A snappy post by Daniel Siedell of University of Nebraska-Omaha (tip from AHN) considers “The Curse of the ‘Special Arts Issue’”, and how misguided editors (and complicit writers) doom their work to thematic ghettoes: These editors actually believe they are are doing … Continue reading
Neither pitchers nor tots
My work week was oddly disrupted by a trip down to New York for the Foundation, but seeing the other scholars made up for it. The lunch and dinner weren’t too shabby, either. It is plain to me now why … Continue reading
Filed under Food, History, Internships, Methodology, Research
I never hesitate
My days have been quite consumed by work on a design for a Williams College mosque/Islamic center, but I think the results are rather compelling.
Filed under angst, Architecture, Art History, Food, Friends, History, Methodology
Kara Thrace And Her Special Destiny
So I don’t know if you could exactly class what I saw this afternoon as a “bad cover band,” but today outside of Tunnel City I saw a group of three older-high-school types doing a full-blown air-guitar metal act on … Continue reading
Filed under Hair, Methodology, Music, TV, Tyra Banks, Williams
Pre-decorated cupcakes
Attn: Williams Dining Services – It’s not Decorate-Your-Own-Cupcake night if you’re just serving a larger-than-usual variety of cupcakes for dessert. Not that I’m complaining, really. News on a buncha buncha burnin’ fronts: GQ has new frosh! Rob, Rob, Ryann, and … Continue reading
Filed under A Cappella, Art, Art History, Classes, Food, Italy, Methodology, Williams
