June 11, 2024
Cecelia Eure, WPAMC '24
While I unfortunately had to miss the WPAMC Southern trip this June, I had the pleasure of attending the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) Summer Institute in Winston Salem, NC. This year, the institute was focused on the Lowcountry, and our trip took our cohort of eight (along with our mentors from MESDA and beyond) to Charleston, Savannah, the Georgia Sea Islands, and all the way down to Kingsley Plantation ...
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December 04, 2023
Dorian Cole, WPAMC '24
A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory…Specifically, at the present time, the right to use physical force is ascribed to other institutions or to individuals only to the extent to which the state permits it. The state is considered the sole source of the ‘right’ to use violence.Max Weber, “Politics as a ...
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November 27, 2023
Kelly Pedigo, WPAMC '24
Situated among hundreds of objects in Winterthur’s Shop Lane, surrounded by things for which I had no name until a curator introduced them to me (porringers and posset pots spring to mind), sits a perfect little English country church. This object has secrets too; with gentle coaxing its roof hinges open and it squeakily reveals itself to be an inkstand. But why is its form so legible and evocative that I can name it in a ...
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November 20, 2023
Taylor Rossini, WPAMC '24
An entire classical city resides inside London’s John Soane Museum. One of the final additions to Soane’s collection, the breathtaking Model Room contains a display of architectural facsimiles depicting some of the most famous monuments of the ancient world alongside some of Soane’s own designs. Most impressive of all is a sprawling topographical model of the Roman city of Pompeii, only recently rediscovered in 1748 and ...
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