Roger KimballYale announced last week that it will stop teaching its famous survey course, “Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the Present.” Taught for decades by Vincent Scully, one of Yale’s most celebrated professors, the course was a riveting introduction to pulse of humanism.
It is being cashiered for all the usual reasons. Its focus is too white, too European, too male, too “problematic,” as Tim Barringer, chairman of the art history department, puts it. Mr. Barringer will substitute a course that challenges such Eurocentrism...
opinion rogerkimball Good article.
opinion rogerkimball Another nail in the coffin of what used to actually be higher education. Now it more akin to a reeducation camp, or cultural revolution minus actually moving the faculty & students out into the fields to harvest crops.
opinion rogerkimball It's a Communist/Soviet Russian propaganda issue. A socialist issue that infects the arts, literature and the people should this issue isn't stopped. The liars/losers at Yale University are responsible for this. ♀️
opinion rogerkimball What is it with you people that you throw a hissy fit anytime someone suggests there’s more to art and history than the works of white Europeans
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opinion rogerkimball Nothing like racism...to punish those who are successful and ancestors were accomplished. Imagine that.... another stunning and brave Maoist move by another university.
opinion rogerkimball This is just another red-meat opinion column from the WSJ because few things give a certain segment of their readership that dopamine hit like bashing 'ivory tower' elitist types. It's like going to the Daily Beast to read corporation bashing.
opinion rogerkimball Actually yes, Yale needs to come to grips on its pro-Slavery past, and demonstrate that it is in conversation with global research trends. Students should come away realizing some reformers were antisemites, inventors were at times slave owners, and leaders were often violent.
opinion rogerkimball How ridiculous the Political Correctness is!
opinion rogerkimball I love straight white art that is worth millions so just forward to me asap
opinion rogerkimball El arte europeo es demasiado Europeo...en fin...Yale es 1 locutorio
opinion rogerkimball Post modern art and architectural Brutalism is soul sucking and down right criminal. Yale has a large 'L' on its forehead for this.
opinion rogerkimball Why get rid of the class? Just don’t take it.
opinion rogerkimball the ivy league is finished. out goes truth beauty and goodness. in comes post modern defecation.
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opinion rogerkimball I had to stop reading... too depressing
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