Category: Art
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“Writing Fiction in Turbulent Times”
This is the full content of my presentation from the evening of January 15 at the Fayetteville Public…
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Good, gooder, goodest.
Way back in 1770 the French philosopher, historian, and poet Voltaire wrote that “Perfect is the Enemy of…
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Prisoners in the museum
The classical Greek conception of the afterlife was not a particularly attractive one. In Homer’s universe, the vast…
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In the Mood
In a twenty-two-year-old farm boy from rural Alabama, barriers to comprehension were high. It didn’t take me long…
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A Likely Story
We all have our own sacred cows, ideas that are so deeply embedded in our psyches that we…
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Elaine, let’s get the hell out of here.
Elaine de Kooning once recalled a party where she and another painter, Joan Mitchell, were asked, “What do…
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Bonfire of the Vanities
The market value of the works that Richter is known to have obliterated is estimated at somewhere around…
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Seeing it all in black and white.
In black and white, structure becomes clearer; light and shadow take on more meaning. Detail can become clinical,…
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The Barbarians at the Gates
Last Tuesday, in a California courtroom, a judge sentenced 23-year-old Casey Nocket to two years’ probation and 200…
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Courage
Frustrated ISIS militants holding the city of Palmyra yesterday beheaded 82-year-old archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad. When Islamic State fighters…
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