I have received a lot of emails recently from high school students or new college students wondering how to approach the study of art history. This is a response I wrote to those who emailed me using Tumblr. My goal…
Some brief thoughts on Karl Briullov’s The Last Day of Pompeii (1830 – 1833).
Whether you are taking your first art history course or are an art history major, here are seven things you can do to help yourself succeed in, and get the most from, your art history classes. 1. Take lots of notes. Every professor formats…
A reader seeks advice as they struggle with their place as an art history major.
An art history major who feels behind in their classes asks how they can catch up to their peers.
A reader asks: how can they continue to study art history after learning about what terrible people some artists were?
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…
