Welcome

Hello, and welcome, to Another Museum Without Walls. This is a blog based loosely around art. I love art- I love looking at it, talking about it, reading about it, writing about it, and so on and so forth. I've been trying to find good art history blogs out there, but so many of them are so stuffy or so focused, or don't talk enough about things I'm interested in, so I decided to join the blogosphere and start my own. Be forewarned: I hold no real credentials. Yes, I went to college where I studied art history; yes, I read a lot about it; yes, I go to museums a lot; yes, I work in an art gallery, but none of this means that everything I post here will be factually correct. Of course I won't give incorrect information on purpose, but shit happens and I might get some things wrong. This is also not going to be professional. I will swear, I will not always type in capital letters and use the right punctuation, and I might share some colorful opinions that I wouldn't necessarily include in a scholarly paper. I think that this will make this blog more fun to write, and perhaps more fun to read. Also- if I do somehow amass some readers out there, let me know you're out there! Leave comments! If I know that people are out there reading, I'm more likely to post frequently.

Basically, what this will consist of is little bite-sized tidbits of art. I'll post about whatever strikes me as funny or cool on that particular day. Most people who know me know that I like my art historical fun facts, and that's pretty much what this will be made up of.

A bit about me: I grew up in suburban Chicago, attending Catholic schools the whole way though (expect to see a good deal of religious art here). I went to Kenyon College, majored in Spanish, and minored in Art History. I moved to Cincinnati, OH in September of 2008 to be with my boyfriend who is here working on his PhD. I'm not particularly in love with Cincinnati, but I am trying to figure it out- it's not an easy nut to crack. Hopefully I'll be off to grad school in the Fall, where I'll get my masters in Art History. My life will definitely affect what I write about here. There will be a good deal of religious art, stuff in Chicago, and artsy things I learn about in Cincinnati.

The name "Museum Without Walls" isn't mine, but I'm building on the concept started in the 1930s by French novelist Andre Malraux who called the idea of taking pictures of art and putting the photos together in a book "a museum without walls." So, just as art became more available through reproduction in art books, I will make it more available by snatching images off the internet, posting them here, and then rambling about them for a bit. This is not a terribly original concept by the way. But hopefully my approach will be. Think of this blog as a cross between a museum without walls and a freak show without a tent.