Alex's Art Blog Apparently

          Internships are a form of education where students or others work with someone who has experience in their desired field. Internships are meant to be educational and ensure that the intern leaves with new skills that will be valuable for them as they attempt to find a career. The educational aspect of internships also means that it must be for a limited time. Many interns are unpaid as some believe the interns educational benefit justifies their unpaid labor, but internships often require a more significant time commitment than a regular class and incur more travel costs that are on the student. Internships also benefit the employer too. Employers are able to receive labor for no compensation, and the employers time commitment lessens as the intern becomes more experienced. Unpaid internships are often inaccessible to those who are more economically challenged and cannot afford to work for free. Unpaid internships established by colleges are more ...

     In recent years, different artists have had their worked questioned due to their behavior in their personal lives. Unfortunately, some of them were quite awful, and the choice to not enjoy their art is an easy one. Others, it can be a difficult question whether or not they break the moral threshold of bad person. Still, their poor deeds and behaviors might weigh a toll on the mind of the average viewer. Some large names in art have been the focus of these debates like Edgar Degas, who has recently had his integrity come into question. But, should his art be disregarded as a whole due to his unfortunate beliefs in the 1800's? Should we just disregard problematic works? Or should we ignore it all together? These questions are difficult ones, but this article will attempt to weigh the merits of each.       We ought to begin with what makes Degas controversial in the first place. First are the allegations of antisemitism, which are more factual than a...

    Representation of Native American tribes in museums is dominated by the culture of oppression and colonization that now wishes to use the artifacts of the people it destroyed to drive patronage at their museums. The representation of native culture has been done by museums that use artifacts that were often acquired through grave robbing and theft as well as artifacts that were acquired well before American society was a space that was welcoming to debate regarding native artifacts.      One of the first steps in the right direction was the creation of the National Museum of the American Indian in 1989. It features a striking design that was created by Native American architects and is part of the Smithsonian museum group. It features a few different exhibits that are rotated after a period. The museum's current exhibits are  Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of the Chesapeake  and  The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire....

 Hello, My name is Alex. My relationship with museums is likely pretty normal. The first trip I can really remember was to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to see the Body World exhibit. Considering how young I was it amazes me how much I remember from that trip. I think learning about how those traveling exhibits work and how curators set those up would be interesting from this class. My awareness regarding debates surrounding museums is cursory at best. I know of the debate regarding whether or not a dead person can consent to being studied and even displayed as examples of mummification as well as some issues regarding consent from descendant cultures to display artifacts of importance to them. I think that museums should be there to address the injustice that was done to all minority cultures in the US as well as the native populations. Museum's shouldn't be neutral (not that they really are as mentioned in the article). They have an opportunity to be bastions of cha...

      The Nok and Djenne people are both indigenous to what is now modern-day Nigeria. Despite their closeness, the two cultures developed distinct art styles. The Nok took a more realistic approach with their artwork, with most recovered sculptures being human heads in a similar size and shape to a real human head. The Djenne's artwork often takes a more abstract approach, with long tubular limbs on their sculptures.                                                             The Nok culture creates most of their sculptures out of terracotta, which is similar to many other African cultures, including the Djenne. Unlike Djenne sculptures, they use a style called coiling which left the interior of the head hollow. The Nok style can be identified by both the eyes and hair. In most Nok sculptures they use a triangular shap...

      The Nok were a sub-Saharan culture located in the northern reaches of modern-day Nigeria. Most artworks recovered from their culture are fired clay or terracotta and were made with a variety of different uses in mind. Some sculptures were smaller and meant to be worn as pendants, while others were life-size sculptures of human heads. Archeologists have dated Nok sculptures between 900-300 B.C.E. but their culture is thought to extend until 200 C.E... Archeologists have also discovered that the Nok farmed crops with iron tools, which have survived to modern-day as one of the only other indicators of their culture. The Nok leave behind no bronze or copper tools, meaning they were one of the few cultures that transitioned from stone tools straight to iron (Atwood). These discoveries indicated an advanced society, with uniform religious worship, metal smelting, and a significant population to support these trends. Its unclear why their...