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A Pile Up
Back from an unannounced (and unforeseen) hiatus in blogging, I have so many ideas accumulated that I don’t know which to focus on. So here are brief mentions of various articles that have piled up over the last few weeks, all of which deal with artists who have worked within the “pile up” as Annie Dillard understood it—i.e., the place....
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Visibly Dead
As I write this, Easter week has come and gone in the Western Church and the Orthodox celebrate Bright Monday, the day after Pascha. My thoughts, though, linger on Holy Saturday, the neglected Jewish Sabbath separating Good Friday and the....
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Exodus 2048
The year is 2048 and the nation of Israel has all but collapsed in an overnight power vacuum brought about by the double-headed disaster that coincides with its centennial: a downward spiral in foreign aid from a much weakened America, combined with the demographic liability of an exploding....
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Michelangelo and Me
Comments on my February post about a secular appreciation of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia books weighed in passionately on the question of whether one has to accept the religious beliefs of an artist in order to find meaning in the art work. Image’s upcoming Florence Seminar on “The Christian Humanism of Michelangelo”....
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Rouault’s Mystic Masque
Usually when my husband and I make our monthly 400-mile trip to play with our granddaughters, we just hang out at their home. But on the last trip, we went a day early so we could visit the special exhibit of Georges Rouault’s paintings at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art (ending on December 7)....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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