Month: May 2020

Whether you have the summer off or are busy with school or a job, chances are you still have a bit more time than usual on your hands due to the COVID-19 stay-at-home order. No matter what your plans are, summer comes with lazy afternoons in the sun, perfect for curling up with a good…… Read more »

I took a browse through “From Daumier to Toulouse-Lautrec: Icons of French Nineteenth-Century Lithography in the Collection of the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art” and was pleasantly surprised by the array of artwork that the Eskenazi presented for online viewing.  I learned that this method of creating visual art flourished in nineteenth century France…… Read more »

Walk into your local Art Museum and look for a Stuart Davis piece or, in relevant times, just look it up online! With more than 45,000 works of art at the Sidney Lois Eskenazi Museum, I was impressed by the vast collection the online catalog consists of. One of my favorite art movements in the…… Read more »

If a piece of art is deemed worthy of being preserved in a museum, we might be led to think it’s always been widely appreciated. This isn’t necessarily the case, though—something highlighted by Dr. Galina Olmsted in her guide to “Impressionism at the Eskenazi Museum of Art.” I completed a French minor at IU, so…… Read more »

With the chain of recent pandemic events disrupting public life and everything transitioning to the digital platform, several museums are still allowing people to experience the iconic content embedded within the museums, no matter where you are located and what the current circumstances entail. Similar to how other businesses are transitioning digitally, online arts programming…… Read more »

It’s well acknowledged that we live in the age of hyper-connectivity, one in which our digital technology has in many ways rendered geographic distance obsolete. But COVID-19 has revealed another facet of our interconnectedness: how we’re tied to the rest of our communities on a molecular, bodily level. Our bodies are porous, open to those…… Read more »

I have been thinking a lot about language. The words we hear and use everyday impact the way we think and influence the actions we take. The constant transformation of language is both a reflection of the environment and a catalyst for change. That change can be imperceptible and slow-moving or a temporary innovation that…… Read more »

This will probably disappoint many musically literate readers, but prior to 2020, I had never heard of Fiona Apple. All of a sudden, at the beginning of April, the internet was abuzz with her name; at a friend’s behest, I listened to her new album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, when it was released on April…… Read more »

Earlier this year, my good friend recommended a podcast on Spotify: Song Exploder. Each episode invites a new artist to reflect on the process of creating one of their songs. For some, they dive into a deep explanation of how each instrument was added, how each sound was layered, how the final product came to…… Read more »

Missing museums? Me too! During this time, I’ve been browsing Google Arts & Culture’s virtual museum tours. While scrolling, I found a game highlighted on their homepage that intrigued me. The game is called Spot the Swan at the Rijksmuseum, and the description reads, “Become an art-detective and scour the halls of Amsterdam’s famous museum…… Read more »