Art Rant - Kirsten Hammerstrom

Pilgrimage

Posted on February 13, 2019 by kittycalash

Note: This was written some weeks before the Kim Sajet’s piece in The Atlantic appeared. Upon reading that, I decided to publish this essay. Kehinde Wiley...

Art Rant/Collecting/personal

The Stuff of Life

Posted on November 7, 2017 by kittycalash

We all love things, don’t we? Things in the literal, corporeal, piled-in-a-heap sense: plates, shoes, books, chairs, necklaces, models. But what makes us love t...

Art Rant/Book Review/Clothing/History

A Vision in Vermillion

Posted on September 22, 2017 by kittycalash

Or scarlet, as the case may be. I’m reading Jane Kamensky’s “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley,” and just 56 pag...

Art Rant/Living History/Museums

Everything Old is New Again

Posted on July 19, 2017 by kittycalash

I could be making bonnets. I could be applying for moar jobz. I could be finishing the soup that’s on the stove. But instead, I’m annoyed by a museu...