Kristen is a California native, New York transplant, working on her PhD in art history at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts. She writes for Untapped New York and edits the Contemporary Art Consortium.
In Celebration of Esoteric Spectacle: Operatic Observations
My wider life experiences—Bugs Bunny and History of Italian Opera and hating piano lessons and studying art history and and being ashamed of my elitism and being fiercely protective of the possibilities of art—don’t displace my experience of opera: they augment it.
Hugo's Hope: "Les Misérables" on Screen and Stage
The movie, and the musical, are emotionally manipulative and blatantly so. But so is Hugo’s original.
Stuff Christian College Kids Don’t Like
The possibility of “nostalgia” is a related desire, and a widespread one. Hence the pipe-smoking, Eliot-quoting, herb-growing, internet-disparaging 20-somethings that you and I both know. But I have to keep this nostalgia in quotation marks because it is false; it is longing for the idea of worlds that few of us have experienced: the fantastical realms, the sepia-tones of the Inklings’ England, the agrarian life.
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