A&H@Home: Spring ’20

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 »

Dear IU: I have watched cycles of red and white tulips bloom and disappear. I have watched how, everywhere, the branches of the trees in Autumn become gilded in metals—golds and bronzes. When the wind blows, they are set on fire and bend brilliantly.  Traversing the stars with my tired, 2:00 AM eyes, I’ve laid…… Read more »

For the last of our series, we want to leave everyone on a hopeful note that things will get better. Through these playlists, we have reminisced about the good times we’ve had with our favorite people before the quarantine. With this final playlist, we want to know what song you can’t wait to hear when…… Read more »