Recent Ideas

**Art History class focusing on comparing the use/impact of illegal substances (or at one time legal substances) on the imaginary/grotesque/demons in works of artistic merit** ---haha that sounds more like a broad ranging thesis idea no? Basic plan. Bosch and others, particularly early 19th c. artists partook of things like absinthe and opiates when they created their art. IS there any way to know for sure which works they created while "under the influence" and can we compare these to known works made while they weren't? I have no idea...but the thought came to mind while driving with Courtney to see the Clasical Mystery Tour on Saturday evening.

**While watching Classical Mystery Tour in C.R. Symphony Orchestra's theater. Has anyone ever done an architectural survey purely of theaters? Dating from the beginning of "stage" arts to the modern day black box spaces?? Mixing performance art that is "staged" in gallery spaces and travels, to blockbusters like Les Mis...different theaters reflect the time periods in which they were built, the architectural styles/theories that governed those times, and also had to be functional spaces much like other building types.**

**Ideas can't really by copyrighted on the internet can they? If so, I invoke the copyright laws as such - should either of these become fodder for my possible MA thesis in art history...