An Introduction

Hello everyone, all three or four of you, and to my (hopefully) future readers:

I decided to start this blog basically because I like reading about art as much as I like studying it, and there aren't a whole lot of arts blogs on the internet that run the gamut of art, from ancient to Renaissance, to modern, to contemporary. Living in New York provides me with endless opportunities to see and form opinions about everything from small gallery shows to huge blockbuster exhibitions at the Met, but no one to tell! Which is where the blog comes in.

I intend for this to be sort of an amalgamation of everything arts-related, which includes but is definitely not limited to: exhibition reviews, recent scholarship, discoveries, museum news, fashion and costume history, and maybe some interesting trivia. My concentration and first art-love in life is medieval, so I may be unfairly biased toward happenings in the medieval world. The only type of art you may find this blog lacking is recent artwork. I'm personally not such a huge fan, as most of you probably know, of contemporary art. In the interest of completeness and inclusiveness, if anything groundbreaking happens in the world of contemporary art, I'll certainly post it, but I thought I should be honest about my biases up front.

I'm currently in the midst of writing my master's thesis, and beginning to organize myself for applying to Ph.D programs, so some of the content here may also concern practical advice for the humanities graduate student, analysis of the fine art of personal statements and how much your math GRE scores really matter. That said, if you have any suggestions or comments on what you'd like to see here, feel free to e-mail me!