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At four years old I saw my first ballet, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, and I immediately fell in love with dance. By age six I was taking my first…

Issue: Art for This Moment

How do you start writing a paper, an e-mail, or a letter? Often our first thoughts are not the final product we want other others to read. Instead we…

Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows

“We weep with the weeping, laugh with the laughing, and grieve with the grieving. These movements of the soul are made known by movements of the body…

Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows

Painted around 1609, Peter Paul Rubens’s portrait of Mulay Ahmad depicts an African man from the waist up, standing before a city and a massive…

Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows

“Since birth we get accustomed to seeing and thinking at the same time. But I think that if you can turn off the mind and look at things only with…

Last July my friend Griffin visited me in Boston. I couldn’t wait to update them on everything new and exciting in my life. First we visited the MFA…

Issue: Art for This Moment

Resilience often manifests in work by Indigenous North American artists, for example in its content or simply by increasing visibility to combat…

A photographer’s studio is a laboratory of creativity—a physical and psychological space for meditation, collaboration, and experimentation. “Creative…

In the years around 1900, before Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) created some of the most recognizable abstract canvases of the last century, he turned his…