Art

How We Use Categories to Understand Art

When I teach film theory, I divide the course into sections. One of them is called Categorizing Films. In it, we discuss some of the...

To Have and Have Not: On Renaissance Art and Byzantine Art in Italy

Italy is important for the western narrative of self, who western people are and where we came from. Narratives in textbooks that...

Materiality and Everyday Art

In the Columbus Circle subway station, the subway tiles that have always been there, chips and all, are now framed. This is new. They...

Jurakán: Hurricanes in Art and Culture

In an earlier post on this blog, I wrote that hurricanes have always been a fact of life in the Caribbean. They have existed since time...

Welcome to My Blog: Film, Art, Life, Fotofocus, Cincinnati

Hi everyone. So I made a webpage, finally, with a blog. Here I'll be posting what I am thinking about and what I am doing: these days:...