Brief Thoughts on The Passion of Christ through Honthorst’s Eyes
Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”…
Q&A: How do I know if I will be a good curator?
A student writes in saying they feel like they will not be good at curating, and wonders how would they know.
Q&A: “I’ve started to feel as if I’m not made to be an art historian…. Any advice, please?”
A reader seeks advice as they struggle with their place as an art history major.
Q&A: I’m an art history major and I feel so behind! How can I catch up to my classmates?
An art history major who feels behind in their classes asks how they can catch up to their peers.
Q&A: How can I continue to study art history when some artists were such terrible people?
A reader asks: how can they continue to study art history after learning about what terrible people some artists were?
“Help! My parents don’t want me to major in art history.”
One of the most frequent emails I get from aspiring art history majors is something along the lines of, “I fell in love with art history and want to major in it, but my parents want me to pursue something…
#TBT: 10 Things I Learned as an Undergraduate
Today is Throwback Thursday, so I thought I would resurrect and update a Tumblr post I made a couple years ago that recently resurfaced in my mind. When I wrote this post, I was a year out of undergrad and the…
Q&A: I’m leaving nursing school to study art history and English. Is this a viable career option?
A reader asks for advice on leaving their nursing program to pursue a career in English and art history.
Q&A: Do you have any advice for writing a personal statement for university applications?
A reader asks for advice on how to write a personal statement for university admissions.
Q&A: How important is it to get an art history degree from a highly-ranked college?
A reader asks how important an art history degree from a highly-ranked university is to their career options, and wonders if a degree from an “average” university would suffice.
Post-Grad Life
Looking back on the past year, it’s not hard for me to realize why it’s taken so long for me to post on this site again. Time flew by as I worked on freelance writing, traveling abroad in Italy and…
Announcing ArtHistory.us
ArtHistory.us is a forthcoming open access art history journal that seeks to intersect the academic and public realm by providing a platform for the free interchange of ideas between people, regardless of where they are on their academic or professional…
