When I lived in Minneapolis, I had easy access to several great museums. I lived within walking distance of both the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (which is free!). One of my favorite things to do in the snowy season was trek over to one of these museums, which would transport … Continue reading The Best Museum You’ve Never Heard Of
Okay. I wasn’t going to step into this “Renoir Sucks at Painting” debate, but it doesn’t seem to be going away as quickly as I thought it would, and I’ve got some opinions on the matter. In case you haven’t been following the story, a guy named Max Geller has started a movement decrying the … Continue reading In (Moderate) Defense of Renoir
(Note that some of the images and links below are slightly NSFW, insofar as watercolor images of breasts are NSFW.) “Sexting:” Defined by Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary as: “The sending of sexually explicit messages or images by cell phone.” It’s such a distinctly early twenty-first century phenomenon. After all, it’s only within the last decade or … Continue reading Nineteenth-Century Sexting
Ellen A. Hurst 