art history - Kirsten Hammerstrom

‘Visual Arts Crush’

Posted on August 21, 2013 by kittycalash

I’ve been following the Times’ “Arts Crush” series, and one of the best, and best-written, in the series has been Holland Cotter’s...

Living History

Faces from History

Posted on June 13, 2013 by kittycalash

Meet Admiral Peter Rainier, painted sometime between 1778 and 1787. The curious thing about Admiral Rainier is that I know someone who looks uncannily like his ...

History/Museums

D-Day: Robert Capa

Posted on June 6, 2013 by kittycalash

Once upon a time in the Midwest, I worked in a Department of Photographs and Prints. (That’s where I met Mr S, when he was hired as the first museum Photo...

Art Rant/Clothing/Museums

Punk is Dead and Buried at the Met

Posted on May 18, 2013 by kittycalash

So, I went to New York yesterday and spent the day at the Met. It was a good, if epically long, trip. I saw everything my feet could bear. One show I even went ...