Zoë Lance.

  • Link Party: 10/29-11/20

    There hasn’t been much Link Partying around here lately. I need to fix that, and I promise to be more consistent in the last few weeks of 2016 and into 2017. Here’s a party to last you all week. Take your pick: 1. An interview with Frank Ocean. 2. Zadie Smith on the dancers that inspire…

  • Think Tank: About Last Week

    You know, there’s only one real way I’ll ever really be able to describe last week, Nov. 7-11, 2016. That week was a total dumpster fire, so vast in its width and depth that we can still see the orange glow of flames deep below the bags of trash on the surface. It’s like we…

  • Gold Star for the Internet: Google Art Project

    Except for bits and pieces of information in high school and one class in college, the breadth of my art history knowledge has been self-taught. I love reading about art history, and if you started reading this blog way back when, you know I love visiting museums. I’m over the moon when I find online…

  • Culture Connoisseur: The Broad Museum

    Way back in December, I reserved two tickets to the newly-opened Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles. At the time, the earliest tickets I could get were for a mid-morning Sunday in March. The Broad opened to much fanfare. I knew how hard it was to get the timed tickets the museum preferred its visitors to…

  • Undergrad Adventures: European Romanesque through Baroque Art

    I needed some extra units this quarter, so I decided to pick up an art history class. I definitely count art and art history as hobbies: I love going to museums, reading books about art and incorporating art into my daily life. This particular class covers Western art history from the European romanesque (early medieval)…

  • Link Party: 5/11-5/15

    A few exciting things happened this week, which I’m really excited to tell you all about soon. In the meantime, here’s what I read this week: 1. Alex Herns gets a lot of emails that aren’t meant for him. 2. Will art save the future generations from radioactive waste?  3. This writer took her mom…

  • Culture Connoisseur: Dick Blick Art Materials

    I’ve recently discovered the most magical place on Earth, and it’s not Disneyland. It’s called Dick Blick Art Materials. Dick Blick is a group of art stores that stocks supplies at discounted prices. It has a much better selection than Michaels, and is not pretentious in the slightest — I am not an artist, but the staff makes me…

  • Link Party: 11/17-11/21

    A little later than usual today, but here’s what I read this week: 1. The history of the Styles section of the New York Times was fascinating. 2. How we look when we look at a painting. 3. The tiniest copyright violations ever made. 4. The causes of the rise in dystopian films. And 5. a…

  • Gold Star for the Internet: Fly Art

    Every once in awhile, someone on the Internet gets a really genius idea and deserves a giant gold star. Today, I’m giving it to Fly Art. There are a couple of similar projects, but the jist is that the people behind Fly Art take rap lyrics and layer them over pieces of classical art. It started off…

  • Culture Connoisseur: LACMA

    In case you don’t follow me on Twitter, you should know that I am in the midst of a very passionate love affair. With the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. @zoellance Hope you don't mind, but we loved this question so much that we're having every participating curator answer it. 🙂 — LACMA (@LACMA)…