Back to School Icebreakers From Contemporary Art

By now most of the United States schools are back in session. As both new and familiar students and teachers … More

The Master’s Pupil: An Art-History Centered Game

I was an avid video game player throughout my adolescent years. In fact, if you asked my friends and family … More

Our DNA, the map of our genetic information (our growth, development, functioning and reproduction), is 99.9% the same for each … More

In 1944 an engineer named Harold Fisk was tasked with the challenge of illustrating the dense and esoteric report by … More

Like previous Pop Artists Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, Frank Buffalo Hyde utilizes images and objects from popular culture as … More

I recently wrote about artist Jane Housham who collects (mostly) ephemeral items associated with childhood and material culture and presents … More

Astronomy is the study of how the universe was formed, and the objects such as planets, galaxies and stars within … More

One of the drawbacks of compulsory education is its rigid structure. Our educational systems are generally too reliant on metrics … More

Jane Housham is drawn to the scale, colors, textures and all around forms of miniature toys, as well as other … More

French painter Jean Siméon Chardin devoted his entire career to documenting the quotidian, domestic and laborious nature of life in … More