Ho ho ho!! We Three Queens arrive to you with our hearts full of cheer and our sleigh stocked with the greatest gift of all … knowledge!! In our very first Christmas special, we discuss the visual language of the holiday season, from the scourge of minimalist Christmas decor to the history of department store spectacles. Joined by ghosts of Christmas Past, including the original Coca-Cola-sanctioned Santa Claus, Thomas Kinkade, and Jack Skellington, we also make our predictions for theoretical Christmas aesthetics to come.

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Kim Kardashian’s Minimalist Christmas Decor

Minimalist Nativity Sets

Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Art

Joan Didion on Thomas Kinkade

A History of the Department Store – BBC

History of Christmas Catalogs

Santa’s New York Roots – NYPL

Christmas Drawings for the Human Race (1890) – Thomas Nast

Haddon Sundblom and the Coca-Cola Santas

Why Hollywood films, Christmas music and jazz are so intertwined – Jazz FM

Brenda Lee’s Comeback – New York Times

Vogue’s Christmas Archive

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