1) What is the surrounding context for this essay? Where and when was it first published? Who wrote the essay, and what do you notice about the author’s bio? The essay was first published in the online news site, World-Post. The site is a combination of a liberal(Huffington Post) and a nonpartisan (Berggruen Institute on … [Read more…]
Original: Kaphar has finally acknowledged what the original artist of the painting had wanted the world not to see. The original artist wanted to show the elegance and class portrayed by the white family, not the story of the enslaved child. The artist helped the audience overlook the boy like Kaphar’s professor had overlooked the “14-page … [Read more…]
Rewrite: The world is a beautiful yet terrible place, filled with countless problems that no one seems to be able to find the solutions for. Although we all want to make the world a better place, many find the definition of a better place to be ever changing. What needed to be changed in the … [Read more…]
I really related to Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts.” My first draft took me ages to write. I hated every sentence I wrote, hated the theme I picked, and could not think of a way to close the whole paper. I was overwhelmed, frustrated, and pretty done with the whole writing process. Lamott described not … [Read more…]
One thing I learned during my first stage of peer review was that your essay needs to connect back to the thesis or it will leave your audience confused. The order of how you overview things should match the order you present them in your essay to make it flow nicely.
So for my brainstorming session I went through my annotations and previous blog posts to find the most important ideas from both “Is it OK to Make Art? by Rhys Southan and “Can Art Amend History?” by Titus Kaphar. While I was doing this, I noticed some areas that overlapped and some that contradicted each … [Read more…]
I chose to listen to Titus Kaphar’s “How We Can Address Centuries of Racism in Art?” as my first source for the paper that we will be writing in conversation with Rhys Southan’s “Is Art a Waste of Time?” Kaphar’s TED talk starts with the scene of him and his sons at the Natural History … [Read more…]
I was pleasantly surprised by how much my experience had changed since I did my first reading. I had a more “vocal” conversation with the text. While I was reading the beginning of the article for the second time, I would remember something that I had read further on during the first reading. This allowed … [Read more…]
The article “Is it OK to make art?” was a very challenging and dreary piece of literature to read. In a sense, I do understand where the Effective Altruism is coming from. However, their rigid rules and disapproving opinions may turn away those who could have helped the world in someway, somehow. The world is … [Read more…]
