Days of Art 2017-20: Actresses, Photographesses, & Paintresses

This week Emma Watson became the first actor to win a major gender-neutral acting award when she won MTV’s first award of the night at their 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards (see story at MTV.com). Watson claimed the trophy for “Best Actor in a Movie,” a peculiarly gender-neutral award that failed to recognize the…

Days of Art 2017-16: The Story of Women and Art 3

Here’s part 3 of BBC Two’s The Story of Women and Art, a 3-part series detailing the history of women and art in the western world, starring Professor Amanda Vickery.

Days of Art 2017-15: The Story of Women and Art 2

Here is part two of BBC Two’s The Story of Women and Art, a 3-part series detailing the history of women and art in the western world. It stars Prof. Amanda Vickery, historian, writer, radio and TV presenter, as well as professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London. Part 1 can…

Days of Art 2017-14: The Story of Women and Art

BBC Two’s The Story of Women and Art, is a 3-part series detailing the history of women and art in the western world and male society’s attempt to eradicate them from history. Hopefully, this has been posted with permission and will persist, but there’s no way of knowing, and so it could disappear, as will…

On the Abutment Against Artificial, Time-Delimited Technological Barriers and the Engagement of Future Technologies in the Mind of the Modern Fan (An Ode to Abraham, from a Flight from Iceland) or Why New Tech Still Sucks

Once upon a time, on a WOW Air flight from Reykjavik, Iceland to Baltimore, USA, a twenty-something man named Abraham turned to the totally doesn’t look forty-something woman in the next seat and said, “I wish I could go back to the eighties [or before] and experience what it was like to see the Star…