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On Going to the Museum with My Goddaughter
Last week, I took my nine-year-old goddaughter to the de Young museum to see the museum’s current headliner: glass artist Dale Chihuly. For weeks, visitors have been lining up to see the candy-colored creations: giant balls in a boat; long thin tapers of lavender glass; dribbly chandeliers; fantastic disks resembling umbrellas or the undersides of jellyfish. Since opening in mid-June, the show is a hit.
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Did Marla Really Paint That? Does It Matter?
Do you buy modern art? No, I’m not asking if you purchase contemporary artwork. I’m asking: Do you buy modernism as a legitimate form of artistic expression? Or do you think....
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The Maine Thing
I bought four cords of oak this year. Clifford, my wood guy, showed it to me. Some of it looked charred. “That’s iron,” he said, which made me think of the iron in the ground around here. I also thought of essences, how hard it is to find the essence of people and of places. Summer is the time when the idea of Maine is in full flower....
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Other Dreams
I remember Adam’s dream as if it had been my own dream, and I recall the spring in which he dreamed it as if I lived that time in his body: fearing the flat horizons that hemmed in Kansas City’s bleak skyline, but fearing the empty city, too....
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Imagining Christ at The Getty Center
Oh how much I’d been looking forward to this, after five weeks in Los Angeles with nary a chance to make it to my favorite place in town. You can have the Arclight, Gladstone’s, Venice Beach, and the Promenade; go ahead, take LACMA and Griffith Observatory while you’re at it....
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Issue 72
Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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