September 06, 2025
By Naomi Subotnick, '22
Twelve vignettes crowd this sheet of thin, aging tissue. Inside each circular world, a different animal prowls through a foliage-bordered composition. Although these creatures are quick with life, the paper they inhabit is creased and fading, tearing away at the edges. What is this unusual object, and what can we learn from it?
[caption id="attachment_5042" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] William Gallimore. Transfer print. ...
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September 06, 2025
By Laura Ochoa Rincon, '22
Throughout history, people have looked at children, and their upbringings, in radically different ways. Prior to the mid-seventeenth century it was widely believed in both England and America that children were innately born with sin and ought to have been treated as small adults rather than children. It wasn’t until John Locke introduced the concept of tabula rasa, or a “blank slate” that premonitions about childhood ...
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September 06, 2025
By Kelly Fu, '22
Who hasn’t heard the Wellerman shanty by this point? And who hasn’t, after that initial encounter, looped the song a dozen times more? Sea shanties, especially in the form of Nathan Evans’ viral rendition of "Wellerman" on TikTok, are taking the internet by storm. The prediction has dropped that sea shanties will be the defining musical genre of 2021. While I, being a long-time lover and performer of folk music, am elated that ...
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September 06, 2025
By Kelly Fu, '22
There are many objects in the Winterthur collection that stop you in your tracks, some for their beauty, and some for their....interesting looks. It is almost impossible to see this pair of Staffordshire tortoiseshell-ware figures and not wonder why they look the way they do. While it may be tempting to dismiss this pair of objects as a case of poor craftsmanship or transcultural aesthetic communication gone awry, these bizarre visual ...
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