<p>There are many field where I would favor Wellesley, but Art History seems to me to be a no brainer for Barnard. The Met is one of the three top leading art museums in the world. It has just about 3 million holdings. Admission is free for the entire Columbia community. I was just there on Friday being “taught” but my son who is a grad student in Art History. He was viewing Turner’s “The Whale Ship” and writing about it.</p>
<p>My D is not particularly interested in Art History, but she went to the Met almost once a week. It was her Friday walk through the Park.</p>
<p>Reproductions can not hope to capture the original works. Yes, from Wellesley you can go into Boston, but the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is not an institution of that scale.</p>
<p>And then past the Met you have MOMA, The Frick, The Whitney and The Guggenheim, and others.</p>
<p>And the downtown galleries.</p>
<p>Manhattan has been the center of the art world after Paris when Abstract Expressionism was all the rage. I don’t know whether it still is, but it certainly is still important.</p>
<p>Oh, and there is Sotheby’s and Christie’s too.</p>
<p>If you have a gut pull toward Wellesley, I would never discourage you. I am sure you can progress in Art History from Wellesley, too. But I think researching outcomes may be over thinking the process. You need only one outcome: yours!!!</p>