Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, was the third stop on my US travels of Summer 2013 The polar opposite of the first stop on my US travels, Los Angeles, Boston is small, quiet, and pretty. Perhaps due to its colonial past or proximity...
After considering art’s relationship with religion versus secularism (and with Christmas fast approaching) I decided to take a closer look at Christian art in my surroundings. Perhaps my location was too biased for an average survey – in Cambridge, where 31 colleges each have their...
Last week, the day before Thanksgiving, I visited the “Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE” exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Thousands of tourists had descended on the city for the holiday, their photos showing off the usual sites—the Empire...
That Nelson Mandela’s influence is so pervasive is evident not just in the way he changed South Africa. Beyond that isolated period of history, it spreads from Hollywood, through galleries and music, to the streets of Johannesburg. From Clint Eastwood’s soaring film ‘Invictus’ to...
Being very much the Englishman, I’ve never known an awful lot about Thanksgiving, with my knowledge being limited to that episode of Friends where Monica puts a turkey on her head. However considering that I’m supposed to be AHA’s dedicated student foodie, I thought...
