12/20/15 review of MSU CVA exhibit Under the Guillotine

(Image source: https://msudenver.edu/cva/exhibitions/under-the-guillotine/)

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Metropolitan State University Center for Visual Arts exhibit Under the Guillotine: James Gillray and Contemporary Counterparts.

My thread gives a little context for the show, including the collector who owned many of the works displayed, Arthur Gilbert. The thread discusses how Gillray illustrated the history and scandals of his time. It also discusses how Gillray's nationalistic paranoia is much like the paranoia we are dealing with today. The thread discusses some of my favorite pieces.

The thread also spends quite a bit of time on the works of Molly Crabapple, which were on display in the exhibition as an example of Gillray's contemporary counterparts.

Here is the link to the MSU CVA web page for the Under the Guillotine exhibit.

10/26/14 review of book Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the book Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality, by David Boies and Theodore B. Olson.

My thread gives a quick summary of the story. I then discuss the arguments I liked from the book for marriage equality as a constitutional right. I discuss what I learned about legal processes from the book. I also discuss what the book taught me about court cases as a public conversation. I also discussed why I liked the first part of the book more than the second, though I appreciated the whole book.

Here is the link to the Penguin Random House edition of Redeeming the Dream.

I bought this book from the Tattered Cover Book Store in Colorado.