Samara Nelson

is this thing on? | Wellesley alum | Art History | she/her

[Samara Nelson @samaranelson_]

@silvie_andgold This made my day thank you

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Tom Wambsgans rising, Shiv Roy sun, Cousin Greg moon

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about to text my boyfriend that my stomach feels weird. if i don’t who will

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@livdenk The nostalgia 🤧

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When compared to some of the ways in which Eurocentric art institutions display, explain, and critique art outside the Western canon, Fred Wilson’s installations start to look less and less absurd. #ARTH316

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A quote that stood out to me: “These phrases — white fragility, white defensiveness, white appropriation — have a habit of standing in for the complicated mess of a true conversation.” #ARTH316

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Claudia Rankine's feature in the NY Times, "I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked." explores examples from her own experiences with how difficult it is for White people to have productive conversations surrounding race. #ARTH316

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In his essay “No Safety Net: Lorraine O’Grady and Performing in Public without Sanction” Sirmans raises a key point: if “Mlle Bourgeoise Noire” was yet too bold for a space like the New Museum, is there room for radical performance art in traditional art spaces at all? #ARTH316

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A compelling point in Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen’s essay “The Modern Woman” is her argument that we must distinguish between the definition of modeling in Picasso’s use of the Gabon mask and Manet’s relationship with the model Laure. #ARTH316

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In Posing Modernity: the Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, she easily disproves the argument that Laure is a minor character in the scene-- donning an intricately decorated dress and holding an eye-catching bouquet, Manet intended to draw the viewer's eye toward her.

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While many art historians have focused their analysis of Manet’s Olympia solely on the courtesan, Denise Murrell explains why the maid Laure’s presence in the scene is integral to our understanding of Manet’s work as an early Modern painter. #ARTH316

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Wanted to send a huge thank you to @steve_locke for sharing his work in our #ARTH316 class today. I learned more in the past hour about public art, emotion, and perspective than I've learned about anything else in a long time.

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As a single monument, this piece represents one in a sea of changes that Boston must undertake as a city to reconcile its racist past and present. https://t.co/EJL987YLQO #ARTH316

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In Jeneé Osterheldt’s report of the 2018 project "Auction Block", she defends Steve Locke’s work against its opposition by the Boston NAACP by outlining the context for its conception. #ARTH316

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Self-care has been co-opted by marketing teams around the world to push their products so that, especially for the wealthy and those of the American individualist mindset, the word “care” is twisted in a way that upholds the capitalist status quo. #ARTH316

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Can you even call it selfcare if your #spon post thinly veils itself as the individualist act of self-betterment? The short answer is no. The New Yorker article “The Politics of Conspicuous Consumption” sheds light on the cavernous gulf between differing meanings of care #ARTH316

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Ow bro.... STOP

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@livdenk are you good