Yearly Archives: 2015

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The Guston Effect

I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry…

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Open Engagement: A report from Pittsburgh

Open Engagement is an annual conference on socially engaged art, focused this year on the topic of Place and Revolution. It was an incredibly dense three days of concurrent ninety-minute sessions, shorter fifteen-minute talks, opening and closing keynotes, and events…

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Elements of Inclusions

In Boston, as well as in the UK, religion has been declining. That is, the idea of “The Church” as an organized body or religious power has been challenged, particularly within younger generations. In 2012 Boston was ranked in the…

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Inventing a Pond

Thoreau heard trains in Walden. There is the recorded sound of one in the exhibition Walden, revisited, on view through April 26 at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, but there is nothing to suggest that it is anything other…