Tag: art history
Occidental’s presidential portraits chronicle an institution
Shortly after the 2007 opening of the Ahmanson Reading Room in the Mary Norton Clapp Library, the portraits of six former Occidental presidents have...
Faculty perspectives on return to campus and in-person instruction
President Harry J. Elam announced Jan. 6 that classes would take place remotely for the first week of the spring semester and the start...
Professor Frank’s last trip to Italy marks the end of an...
Students from professor Eric Frank’s art history class “Michelangelo: Art and Biography" (ARTH 373) finished their semester-long coursework with a trip to Italy, according...
Eric Frank finds the art in teaching and life
Professor Eric Frank’s office embodies his decades of teaching at Occidental College. Floor-to-ceiling bookcases line his walls, filled with the colorful bindings of art...
Coming and going: Occidental professors share their sabbatical stories
Now and then, a favorite professor will seemingly vanish for a semester (or two). Often unknown by students, the realization of disappearance will hit...
Stop burning money on Notre Dame Cathedral
The April 15 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris represents one of the greatest artistic and cultural losses of our time. The value...
Double the majors, double the benefits: the work is worth the...
According to a recent New York Times op-ed, you're wasting your time pursuing a double major. Author David Leonhardt argues that double majoring equates to...