Afterimage, Pool Shift, Rosha Yaghmai, 2023, acrylic paint and ink on organza and cotton At the end of the school year, I visited the SFMOMA, where I saw Rosha Yaghmai’s Afterimage, Pool Shift. Afterimage, Pool Shift is part of the “Afterimages” series, in which Yaghmai explores the feeling of intense color through the use of translucent layers of material. By creating a hazy and distorted image, Yaghmai creates an obscure landscape. When I first saw this work, I actually walked past it,...

Reliquary of Sainte-Foy, 9th century with later additions, gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood, Romanesque France Shiva as Lord of Dance (nataraja), Hindu, India (Tamil Nadu), Chola Dynasty, 11th century, cast bronze Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja) is a bronze sculpture from the Chola Dynasty in India. It is a Hindu sculpture from the 9th-13th century. The Reliquary of Sainte-Foy depicts a young girl who was martyred because she was killed when she was fighting for Christianity....

The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz, 1907, photogravure, photography Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an American photographer who was determined to show that photography was an art medium. In the beginning, Stieglitz was the editor of Camera Notes, a journal of the Camera Club of New York. However, when the club started to become more restrictive, he and some others decided to leave and form the Photo-Succession, which aimed to place photography in the fine arts category, in 1902. Possibly...