ROBOCOP has just finished his degree in Art History.  What period?  The Renaissance, of course.
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/09/peter-weller-robocop-art-history-doctorate-ucla

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/09/peter-weller-robocop-art-history-doctorate-ucla

Art or Vandalism?  You decide!
The Russian Embassy is not amused, and has asked the Bulgarian Government to watch more closely over the 1954 Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia.
The inscription on the base, by the way, reads "In Step with the Times"--so the message could be as easily construed as anti-American as it can be as anti-Russian.
More recently, the monument was painted again--this time with the Ukranian national colors.
This is an excellent case of an artwork having a life of its own, well beyond the intentions of its creators.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/505354.html

The Atlantic nails it again, as they often do.  Here's their take on why people should want to go to college.  Though it's written about "poor kids" there are lessons here for all.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/the-danger-of-telling-poor-kids-that-college-is-the-key-to-social-mobility/283120/

PS: Extra points for selecting Swarthmore's Parrish Hall as the lead image!

The Wunderkammer is on the march!

In an arguably perverse retro move, museum curators are returning to the origins of museums with "Cabinet of Curiousity" installations.  Let the wonder begin:

Philip Hoare's January 13, 2014 article in The Guardian: Museum and gallery curators reopen the cabinet of curiosities concept Stuffed pelicans, bell-jarred oddities and unicorn horns: the wunderkammer – or 'cabinet of curiosities' – is a macabre, colonial throwback. So why is it back in vogue?