Category: Art

Pop Art – online course with the Centre Pompidou and FutureLearn

Josephine Corcoran6 Comments

Recently I've been dipping into FutureLearn, the online learning platform. I like the interface of FutureLearn, I find it easy to use. Most recently, a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) offered by the Centre Pompidou in Paris caught my eye, so I signed up. The MOOC is called Pop Art. It's not so much a… Continue reading Pop Art – online course with the Centre Pompidou and FutureLearn

Hating on Phone Culture

Josephine Corcoran8 Comments

If you want to see real anger, read some of the comments in response to Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett's Guardian piece Art, aura and the doomed search for the perfect selfie.  Although Cosslett writes that she has discovered that "even to suggest that to look at a painting through a phone is a lesser form of… Continue reading Hating on Phone Culture