The Hero's Journey

A New Ruins Podcast with Dr. Bob Severino

Some light housekeeping before we get to the party. I won’t ask you to do the windows.

Only three days left to take advantage of The May Muse Discount. Becoming a paid subscriber is kind of like being your own version of the big corporations who set up arts endowments. Except, in your case, you know exactly where your investment ends up, straight into my veins and out through my fingers onto the keyboard.

Many of you expressed emotional responses to last week’s piece, Build Your Own Museum.

As a follow-up, I am sharing this fascinating link, Mosaic…is it art? a research paper by the Irish artist, Annaliese Brown, that looks closely at the why behind the lack of mosaic on museum walls. You can read her paper, or just peruse her shocking graph below.

Where are the mosaics, we ask?!