Out of the Classroom, Into the Museum
Yesterday I went to a museum all by myself. Like most Americans, I used to go to museums mostly for class field trips. This type of museum-going tends to be more a social experience in which the group tries to see the greatest number of pieces, limited only by time and physical exhaustion. By contrast, yesterday was about the art-about seeing it and looking at it, and learning to receive it. Ugolino and His SonsS...
More than just pretty faces
From More Intelligent Life: A review of the "Model as Muse" exhibit at the Met. As the curatorial notes put it, models are those "whose elegant poses and gestures" evoke the attitudes of the day. The show makes clear that this is partly something a model can control and partly something she is simply, ineffably, born with. In a sense, all top models are naturals....
