<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/magazine/17art.t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/magazine/17art.t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin</a></p>
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<p>This is from Sunday’s New York Times. Sounds a lot like your daughter’s career path. Fascinating stuff.</p>
<p>Momrath, thank you so much, I appreciate your thoughfulness. Yesterday morning someone sent to me a PM with the link, and I called my daughter immediately. She is in NYC at the moment with her best friend who is completing undergrad at Rutgers - (they are visiting every museum in NYC this week it seems) and so she can just grab the paper. </p>
<p>It reads exactly what she is looking for. She has been experiencing enormous frustration searching grad school program websites and reading all of the detail of and looking for exactly this, and not finding it. It has caused some stress for her I think as she is in the middle of writing her application essays and statements of purpose for programs that are “close enough” but not quite what she really wants. The program as described in the article is exactly what she wants. </p>
<p>That’s what’s so terrific about CC - I do not read NY Times consistently and so would have missed this completely. I can get the Sunday edition in Miami for $5.00, so, anyway I typically read excerpts of papers that are sent to me via newsclipping services, and this wouldn’t make the clippings. </p>
<p>Don’t have direct response from D yet - she is having too much fun and there is no internet access in best friend’s on campus apartment at Rutgers, so, I am relegated to exchanges of voicemail messages at the moment. LOL. </p>
<p>So very, very happy to have this, and for CC. Cannot say thank you enough.</p>
<p>Just as an FYI, you can get a free on-line subscription to the Times that gives you the vast majority of the articles, so at least you won’t have to pay the $5 for the paper!</p>
<p>How could they have invented it - it’s what one of the lead characters in “The Da Vinci Code” did for a living. :)</p>
<p>Funny, that’s usually what people say when they ask her career plans, she goes into this long explanation, and they say “oh, sort of like the Da Vinci Code”, and then she says “yes, sort of” and other word salad follows. </p>
<p>She called this afternoon, cell reception was poor but I heard “article.awesome…in line at museum…NYC fantastic…pizza…Canal Street…World Trade Center…awesome food…real NY cheesecake” so I guess that means she connected with the article, likes it, and is having a blast in NYC, isn’t hungry, and, if she’s in a museum I will not hear from her again for days. </p>
<p>I took her to the museums in D.C. a couple of years ago. She can literally spend hours in one small room with maybe six displays in it. She’ll stare at a piece of sculpture or a painting for hours and hours, from every angle, and totally lose track of time, of her surroundings, and even not notice or remember the people she’s with. Hour or so later move on to the next piece of work. Me? I’m done in five minutes, and ready to go. I don’t get the obsession with art, but, I’m happy she has something that is so consuming.</p>
<p>LTS:</p>
<p>I hope your D applies to NYU. It has a great museum studies program.</p>
<p>LTS, You’re welcome. We art history moms have to share information. </p>
<p>We’re museum fanatics ourselves (the whole family) so I definitely know what your daughter is experiencing. Even though I’ve been to the NY museums hundreds of times I still get a thrill when I stand in front of my favorite paintings.</p>
<p>Is your daughter thinking of doing graduate work in art history? Masters or PhD? It’s a tough field as there are so few jobs that are well paid, but intellectually very rewarding. Remuneration for the soul?</p>
<p>Momrath, she LOVES art and art history, and wants to be a sort of an international cop. She does not want to work in museums…and she is applying to grad programs that appear to be dual - anthro and art history. It’s really, really hard for me to explain because I just do not understand it, but, bottom line, she wants to investigate art crimes as a career, but thinks it is highly unlikely that any of the three-letter agencies will hire her to do art crime and nothing else - she will have to be an investigator across many different areas of crime. She also does not believe that an advanced degree in only art history will take her far enough - she is convinced that she needs anthro to go with it, and/or maybe even instead of it. </p>
<p>While she applies to grad school she is also completing application to one federal agency (and that application appears to be as complicated as grad school). So I don’t know how this is going to end up…she has completed a minor in forensics as part of undergrad…</p>
<p>Marite, I think that she is sort of mad at NYU. She applied to them for undergrad, and they accepted her, but with ZERO money. Later, the college counselor at her high school told her that the prior two years, NYU accepted at least 15 students from the school, all with very generous financial aid packages, but not a single student matriculated. So we half way think NYU gave up on the school? In any case I have suggested she look at them again, but she just doesn’t seem interested in even looking at what they offer.</p>