Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Intertwined a featured exhibition at the New Museum: Now on View
Back on view after a successful run at the Storm art King Center, Wangechi Mutu is on view in a new exhibition at the New Museum spanning 25 years of her career, drawing in crowds to SoHo and to another world entirely its own. @theurbnsloth | visited 03.02.2023 We call it world mapping, but there is a…
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What I’m Hoping Ceramics Can Teach Me This Year
It’s now 2023, and rather than resolutions, I’m picking up where I left off in 2022 in wanting to specialize in ceramics. But thinking through this specialization, I was thinking about what might translate well from art practice to theory and vice versa. Having an artist’s brain and a curatorial brain is mutually beneficial and…
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My New Approach to Getting Paid to Look at Art
So I’m sort of in a pickle between wanting a career and wanting to retire in my 20s. It would work out if I worked on Wall Street or the sciences because I can find funding as a Black woman in STEM but not so much in Humanities as a graduate student. I’m making it…
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Rituals of an Intentional Black Graduate
Dedicating time to these five areas will make you a well-rounded person while diversifying your interests. I hope this helps other Black girls trying to have it all, and rest should be a part of that refocus to protect peace in work and fun.
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Black Curators Matter: Who are they?
My first question was whether I should consider working as an independent curator at some point. But, what does this mean for my job prospects? But a dive into the working professionals today, changed my mind
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What is McNair?
In many ways, McNair is a crash course in all the mistakes you can make in academia, but with a soft landing for first-generation and low-income students. For those of us unsure about the future and wanting to elevate a career without having to work for years in grunt work you don’t care about, McNair…
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Why the Masters?
When I started telling people I would be a curator, let me first start by saying I had no idea what I was getting into. I knew that if I stuck with it, I would figure it out, but no art field expert gave me advice as I applied to schools across the country for…
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Summer 2019: Whitney Biennial
In 2019, I visited the Whitney Museum to check out their permanent collection and their biennial show that addressed the racism and capitalist ties their board held with weaponry. I am of course referring to the protest of 8 artists that ended with them withdrawing their work from the show. I went for the sake…
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A Documentary: Black Art in the Absence of Light
It’s been few weeks since I streamed the documentary, naming the artist’s race in the title of their profession and seeing it as problematic has been rolling around in my head for years. How do you talk about, receive, and understand art coming from black artists that want to steer the conversation to the work…
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Accessibility: How Museums Can Truly be for All
You know me as the gallery attendant turned art handler, turned museum fellow. So, as you can imagine, I have seen a ton of ways we can make the artwork more accessible to any age, education level, disability, or impairment.
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Female Art Handling
If you know me in the workplace or have taken a look at my CV, chances are you’re going to see me running around wearing multiple hats at any given time. One hat in particular I didn’t expect to love so much was art handling, or art installation crew member as my job description is…
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Why I’m Obsessed with LinkedIn: Start of the Week Reflection
Not even two weeks ago I was unsure of who I was as an art historian and who I will become in my career. The pandemic has left me unemployed but not without prospects, I just simply forgot one of my resources, LinkedIn.
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Benny Andrews and Why We Should Celebrate Him
Benny Andrews the painter and grassroots organizerView post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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The Difference it Makes When You’re Making It
Now, at the end of January and after some hard reflection, I somehow have to find a lucrative side-hustle to find my way into an unpaid internship life. Until I receive enough experience to make me a reputable hire, I compete with many people of my caliber. It’s not paying to be me with my…
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Am I Waiting Out Covid-19 or is it Waiting Out Me
And this isn’t to toot my own horn, I had 3 jobs, 23 units, and a research paper I was writing between classes and rugby practice. THIS-GIRL-CAN-GET-IT-DONE… you just have to let me in. I promise you you can’t regret the hiring the overachieving student that finds joy in completing projects and celebrating every win.…
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Summer at The Frick Madison
My summer was anything but what I had planned. It was better than some, but still a challenge for good reasons. As I announce my new ventures at the bottom of this article, I am still chasing side hustles to stay sharp and keep it moving through thesis research ahead of graduation.
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Hiring: Getting Seen, Heard, and Connected
A little over a year ago, I was sitting at my laptop typing what I will again- the job market is overly competitive, and wow, standing out can be hard when you know you can do the work. Currently: Looking for non-profit/ community engagment work in Manhattan to continue serving underserved communities through public programming…
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From Critic to Influencer: Death of Journalism
In reading the article Critical Condition, a perspective piece written by Mary Louise Schumacher in the Winter 2020 ArtNews magazine, I began thinking about what it means to be a storyteller in today’s age. Check out my latest Blog Post for more!
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Centralizing the Black Narrative
My bright-eyed perception of the world thought that academia had all the answers, and I am finding out more and more every day that that isn’t the case.
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The Job Is Just Sitting There: Should I Wait?
So I googled it, “can you work a full-time job while in a Master’s program?” And that opened up a whole series of questions that have put my understanding of the working/career world in perspective
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