Art

“Emily in Paris” is an American comedy-drama (dramedy?!) on Netflix about a twenty-something workaholic named Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) who is suddenly uprooted from her life in Chicago and sent off to...

This semester has, more likely than not, been exceptionally challenging for many students. First-year students who would normally be relishing in their first taste of freedom away from home now find themselves...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is as American of an institution as the White House, the Senate or Faneuil Hall. This year is a special one in particular for the Met, as 150 years ago today they opened their...

The Hagia Sophia, or “Holy Wisdom,” in Istanbul, Turkey was, for centuries, at the heart of the Christian Byzantine Empire. Then it was also the heart of the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Today it remains the...

When I was little I considered myself to be a celebrated female artist. Drawings of small, misshapen horses with suns in the corner were often hung on the side of the refrigerator, borderline pressed against...

Cubist Portrait based on Picasso’s “Head of a Woman”, made using photographs of Luka’s face and photos of clothing found online, with added color and brush strokes Frames of an animation of...

I fully understand that a decent amount of art is hard to understand. It’s difficult to grasp why the all-black Marc Rothko paintings sell for tens of millions of dollars, or how an artist can become famous...

There’s this feeling when sitting in a theatre with a performance just about to begin. The lights dim, the loud chattering lessens until all that’s left is that slight hum of silence as it bounces across...

Sometimes art truly tells a story. You stand in one of those big, white galleries, in front of a piece you don’t fully understand, and feel as if it’s speaking directly to you. Like that scene in “Ferris...

As a growing artist, the experience of creating works of art through my own conceptual interpretations has been an eye-opening one. In using books as a medium to construct and reconstruct both the physical and...