This past week has been filled with multiple visits and catch-ups with colleagues, friends, and students. Hearing of other people's accomplishments and sharing my own plans (and plotting some new ones) for the coming year has been incredibly inspiring and energizing. There are so many creative and and incredibly ambitious people in my circle-- I feel such gratitude! Those meetings, along with the attending the beginning of VIFF, have kept my schedule very very full. With one eye on my media feed this week, the news has reflected the chaotic response to all of the recent natural disasters in the US, Caribbean, and Mexico. Not surprisingly, the subject of artist protest, symbols of resistance, and the reevaluation of global response to political rhetoric have been highlighted. Enjoy my chosen links and take the time this week to meet with someone you haven't connected with in a while. You will most likely find yourself newly inspired!
- Protest Art, and Institutional Support of It, Is More Vital Than Ever
- Olivier Rousteing on the Importance of Breaking the Rules
- How Helen Frankenthaler Pioneered a New Form of Abstract Expressionism
- Museum image fees - a call to arms
- Academics’ top tips for publishing success
- Twitter users respond to 280-character limit – mostly in 140 characters
- Alper Dostal melts masterpieces to imagine art without air conditioning
- SMARTHISTORY: Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (VIDEO)
- A New European Narrative?
- The Kaepernick Protest Comes to SNL