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Kim Beil

Kim Beil
Kim Beil teaches art history at Stanford University, where she is the Associate Director of ITALIC, an interdisciplinary arts program for first-year students. Her writing on modern and contemporary art has appeared in Art in America, Photograph, and Sculpture magazines and her book, Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography, is available from Stanford University Press. She thinks of Instagram as research; you can find her @Kim.Beil, and @kalophile on Twitter.


Talking to Myself: How Dictation Software Helped Me Navigate Pandemic Pain

From Leonardo da Vinci to Zadie Smith, Kim Beil on the Many Ways to Get Words on the Page
April 20, 2022  By Kim Beil
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What I Learned While Cataloguing an Entire Library of 19th-Century Schoolbooks

Kim Beil on Building a Habit of Curiosity
November 4, 2021  By Kim Beil
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No Longer Trending: On How We Name Photographic Fads

From the Rembrandt Effect to #sourdough
June 23, 2020  By Kim Beil
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