Do Art History Majors Really Face the Worst Job Prospects of Any Profession?
Art History majors face the worst employment prospects of any profession after graduating from college, a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has found. The data, released by the Fed in February, became a talking point online this week, just as students close out the academic year and many start the job […]
Is ‘Moby Dick’ America’s Most Illustrated Novel? A New Exhibition Makes the Case
Today, Moby Dick’s place in the literary canon is as weighty as its titular antagonist, but upon its release in 1851, the book barely made a ripple. “This is an odd book, professing to be a novel, wantonly eccentric and outrageously bombastic,” wrote the London Literary Gazette, before declaring it so torturous that readers might […]
Cuban Artist Julio Larraz’s 80-Year ‘Artistic Odyssey’ Is Highlighted in Traveling Exhibition
Born in Havana in 1944, Cuban artist Julio Larraz began his career as a political caricaturist and cartoonist, signing his work by his first and middle name: Julio Fernandez. In Cuba, his family were owners of the newspaper La Discusión, which undoubtedly had an influence on his early practice. They relocated to the United States […]
Art Bites: Barbie’s Art History Era
Buried in the mix of the blockbuster Barbie movie’s mishmash of entry-level feminism and peppy capitalism was a stray reference to “Proust Barbie.” It was an oddly high-brow joke in a film of weird decisions and director Greta Gerwig threaded it in because kids aren’t exactly known for their love of Proust, and it reflected […]
Art We Love: Bruce Nauman’s Living and Breathing Sculpture
Legendary REM frontman Michael Stipe maintains a visual art practice that mines instinctual feeling from the conceptual. His multivalent works, spanning sculptures, ceramics, and photography, were most recently on view at his solo exhibition at ICA Milano. Accompanying the show was Even the birds give pause, his fourth photographic book encompassing his portraiture and other […]