Mya Dosch

About Mya Dosch

Mya Dosch is a PhD candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her area of specialization is 20th-century art of Latin America, and her dissertation research focuses on artistic and architectural projects in Mexico City that memorialize the 1968 student movement and the massacre of student activists in Tlatelolco Square. Mya teaches at Brooklyn College and City College.

Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, 1969-74, cor-ten steel, aluminum, cast resin, polyurethane enamel, 740 × 760 × 330 cm, Yale University (photo: vige, CC: BY 2.0) — This sculpture, installed on the Yale campus during Vietnam War protests, was never meant to be permanent.

Protesting the Vietnam War, with lipstick

Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, Federal Plaza, New York, NY — Who should be the arbiter of taste—the person on the street, the artist, the courts?

The Culture Wars and Richard Serra’s Tilted ...

Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, Federal Plaza, New York, NY — Who should be the arbiter of taste—the person on the street, the artist, the courts?

Richard Serra, Tilted Arc

Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, 1969-74, detail — This sculpture, installed on the Yale campus during Vietnam War protests, was never meant to be permanent.

Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks

Cusco School Artist, Saint Joseph and the Christ Child — Joseph plays a bit part in earlier depictions but has an important supporting role in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Cusco School Artist, Saint Joseph and the ...