Five New Artists You Need to be Following

If you are using Instagram correctly, then you’re discovering some great new artists (like I am!) The medium is perfect–small squares of colorful beauty with short captions (and of course, links to the artist’s website of work), all personally aggregated to your interest by IG’s powerful algorithm. It’s like a catalog of the world’s artContinue reading “Five New Artists You Need to be Following”

SHARED: Matthew L. Anderson on Carvaggio

Carvaggio, *The Calling of St. Matthew* “For perhaps obvious reasons, I love this painting by Carvaggio immensely–and spent a solid hour looking at it and the companion pieces when in Rome this past month. The standard interpretation is that Matthew is the bearded gentleman on the left, with the hand pointing at himself. But IContinue reading “SHARED: Matthew L. Anderson on Carvaggio”

Three Things: Instagram Likes (+ a bonus)

It’s Friday, and while I may be swamped in research papers and never-ending assignments, that doesn’t mean that I don’t want a 5 min scroll break while studying. Instagram is my favorite of the social apps because it fuses the best parts of entertainment media: beautiful images, interesting conversation, and easy-to-discover good content.