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  1. The bigger Canadian schools are really good options for terminal MAs. McGill has Amelia Jones, for example, and the University of British Columbia has Serge Guilbaut, John O'Brian and Jaleh Mansoor. Toronto also has a pretty cool department—Mark Cheetham, Elizabeth Legge and Alison Syme are all doing really interesting work. All three schools have placed students at top programs recently—I know there are a couple McGill grads at Harvard, for example, and UBC grads at both Yale and Harvard. I would be wary of focusing particularly on "major names" though, especially when it comes to doctoral programs. If you want to work on Brazilian art Bryan-Wilson and Foster are good bets, but Nemerov and McCauley don't particularly fit...
  2. ^ The Posting of Modern Life
  3. First of all, don't give up until you know you have been rejected from all of the schools you applied to. It. is. not. over. Second of all, if you're talking about Princeton, with Irene Small as the POI, potentially you were edged out in favour of applications favoured by more senior faculty members. I assume we're talking about the 20th century, so it's possible that Doherty/Foster wanted specific candidates. The same goes for Berkeley, assuming we're discussing Julia Bryan-Wilson. As far as I know, at least three students interested in working with her were accepted last year, so it is very possible that the committee chose to accept candidates from other areas this year. A lot of this process is tied in with department politics and balance. I wouldn't worry too much about your application needing improvement at this point, especially if a POI at one of the two aforementioned departments complimented your SOP. It may just not be your year in regards to certain departments. It's ok! You aren't out of the game yet!
  4. The joke is on him imo. Baselitz has always been a really mediocre painter.
  5. To add on to what lefilsdhomme said about Berkeley, I believe that Julia Bryan-Wilson has done work on Brazilian art. In addition, all doctoral students in the department at Berkeley are required to have a committee member outside of Art History, so you would be able to work with someone like Natalia Brizuela. Keep in mind that Irene Small completed her doctorate under David Joselit, who is definitely not a Brazilianist, so if you're working on the 20th century you don't necessarily need to limit yourself solely to Brazilianists. I would also check out Fabiola López-Durán at Rice.
  6. I am incredibly impressed by your two MEds. Also: Julie Mehretu is a corporate hack.
  7. If you're coming equipped with references from Armstrong/Joselit/Wood/etc & a senior paper/Yale graduate seminar paper as a writing sample you should be more than fine. GPA is fairly negligible portion of the application, so I wouldn't worry. In addition, it's not so much the brand name of the school as it is the professors within that school's department. As you've more or less insinuated, the field is fairly small, especially, for example, if you're looking at Modern/Contemporary. The reality is that the vast majority of scholars at top schools are going from have some sort of link to either the October crowd or T.J. Clark/Anne Wagner (throw in W.J.T. Mitchell, Crow, Nochlin, etc as you wish). I'm not as familiar with Early Modern/Medieval/Classical/Asian scholarship, but I'd imagine that the same applies to some degree. Yes, it seems somewhat incestuous, but since you've presumably worked with professors from those circles you have a head start.
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