{"id":37,"date":"2015-02-21T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/?p=37"},"modified":"2020-04-19T01:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T01:07:47","slug":"a-little-bit-of-modern-art-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"A Little Bit of (Modern) Art History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update December 2015 &#8211; looks like the pictures on this post have messed up. Sorry \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>A Note of Caution: Given the content matter, use discretion when speaking about the contents of this post. There is a reason why the hovse blog is a password-protected site.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a compendium of modern tunnel art. It consists of murals and larger works of text that have been put up since the fall of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Why 2011? Well, first and foremost, because a definition of &#8220;modern&#8221; needs to start somewhere. And everything before the fall of 2011 is before my time, so therefore I am defining everything post that point to be modern.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Fall 2011 was notable because it was the start of Dean Kiewiet&#8217;s second reign.<\/p>\n<p>Between PNGs, new policies, and paranoia, there was not much trust between the students and the administration. Because of the uncertainty of what would happen if even a small mistake were to occur, the self-imposed policy of many in the hovse &#8212; including of that year&#8217;s Troll &#8212; was a ban.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite what pressures there may have been, life still moved on. There were still sets, people still gossiped and joked. And, even with our self-imposed ban, people still explored.<\/p>\n<p>Pieces are grouped by creator when known and by subject when not. The listing here is (to my knowledge) complete through May 2014 unless otherwise noted.<del><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n<p><strong>Known Missing &#8211; Art in the Shadowlands, The Periscope of the Fleming Cannon, piece by Tem Jackson near Baxter, piece by Grace near Braun, Kiwi-related graffiti in Geo tunnels, graffiti next to the tribute to love (by Robinson)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update December 2015 &#8211; looks like the pictures on this post have messed up. Sorry \ud83d\ude41 &nbsp; A Note of Caution: Given the content matter, use discretion when speaking about the contents of this post. There is a reason why the hovse blog is a password-protected site. This is a compendium of modern tunnel art. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}