Tag: Aesthetics

Van Gogh and Me

Last November my grandmother was visiting and wanted to do something fun. Instead of fun, my mother dragged us to the traveling “Beyond Van Gogh” exhibit that was…

An Afternoon at the MoMA

In the summer of 2009, in the final year of my undergraduate studies, I spent a month in New York with my sister. The MoMA was always going…

Have One on Joanna Newsom

As I considered a range of options for my Humanities Moment, I instinctively knew it would come down to music, which is the element that moves me most…

Chimborazo and the Sublime

There is a term in the humanities known as “the Sublime” (Rabb). The Sublime specifically refers to a concept in art established during the Romantic era when landscape…

Wabi-Sabi: The Perfectly Imperfect

As part of my undergraduate degree in Asian studies, I took a class on Haiku, a traditional form of Japanese poetry. At the time, I knew nothing about…