I’ve always found conservation fascinating— it’s not a field I plan to go into, nor is it one for which I have a particularly apt skill set. But given that my majors span history, naturalRead More
I had no way of knowing this before “attending” Victoria Szabo’s Zoom talk earlier this week, but it turns out she’s pretty much who I want to be when I grow up. She’s way
Honestly, I wanted to start this post off with any number of kitchen-related puns. Something about ideas marinating, or how the conversation lit a fire under my butt (motivationally speaking), or how I have ideasRead More
My main takeaway from listening to Claudia Bitran talk for an hour was mostly that as eclectic as someone’s career might be, you never really know how much planning, detail, and forethought is simmering underRead More
“All art asks you to notice something, to pay attention.” She said it fairly early on in our virtual studio visit, but those words seem pretty integral to understanding Jessica Stockholder’s perspective on art. HerRead More
The first moment of a group Zoom call with Keith Allyn Spencer was slightly jarring—both in its strangeness and in its familiarity. He spoke with us from his studio-office on the campus where heRead More
Looking at Sarah Crowner’s work for the first time, even through a computer screen, my first thought was, “oh, my goodness, it’s alive.” I wasn’t even entirely sure where that thought came from. At firstRead More
Amna Asghar is, in many ways, exactly what you’d expect after looking at and reading about her work. She’s funny, focused, and engaged. She occupies both a very academic space—the product of a graduate degreeRead More
As a fairly regular gallery visitor (and former gallery worker), I’m the first to confess that I don’t usually think about gallery spaces as ones designated for business. I think of them as a placeRead More
When you consider that Eleanor Heartney has had incredible success framing the world– the art world, specifically– in terms of the end of days, it’s remarkable how cheerful and optimistic she is. She acknowledges thisRead More