Introduction

Fred Tomaselli and Jonathan Orozco at the Joslyn Art Museum

My name is Jonathan Orozco and I am an art history student at the University of Nebraska Omaha. I’m interested in art, design, and fashion.

I started this blog because I want to cover the artists and figures I think are important without restrictions. Popular art media focuses too much on the same subjects, like the cycle of auctions and the most expensive artworks. Then there is the issue of the constant revisiting of major artists, like Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso. It’s not that I dislike their work, it’s that there’s a nonstop conversation about it. I want to cover artists that are practically ignored but are just as deserving of recognition.

The content on this blog will range from conversation transcripts, critical views on artworks, reviews of shows, and so on. Oral history and analysis of material culture will be the basis of the posts.

I come at this as a novice. Aside from academic papers and a few conference presentations, I only have one article published. NAD NOW, the journal of The National Academy of Design, published my review of a recent show Fred Tomaselli had at the Joslyn Art Museum. I appreciate the opportunity since I had an excuse to interview and meet Tomaselli. After the review went live, Tomaselli and I had an exchange about my writing, something I found very rewarding.

I want to continue writing articles like I did for NAD NOW since I find the researching, interviewing, and writing process very fulfilling.

Ideally, I will publish a post every week, but this may be difficult to follow through on being a full-time student. But I’ll try.

I’ll leave it at that.

FYI:

I have a fashion microblog on Instagram: @histoffashion.

The handle to my personal Instagram account is @museum_highlights.

The anthology Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser serves as inspiration for the name of this blog.