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Art Saved My Life
Russell Dawson on art as a path to an authentic life.
May 10
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April 2023
Open Canon: Mary MacLane
by E.R. Zarevich. The Canadian-American writer was a prodigious memoirist, and self-promoter.
Apr 19
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American Graffiti
Mason K Brown on the colors of the moving American landscape.
Apr 5
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February 2023
Open Canon: Jane Roberts, or "Seth"
by E.R. Zarevich. Writer Jane Roberts claimed to have accessed the Other Side, but was her supernatural alter ego merely a gimmick to supplement a…
Feb 15
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January 2023
If We Build It, Will You Come?
It's harder than ever to make it as a creative. Here's an idea that might help.
Jan 24
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Natalie Axton
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December 2022
Beyond the Peak
Joe Koch on late style and staying present with impermanence.
Dec 14, 2022
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November 2022
Open Canon: Amy Lowell
E.R. Zarevich. Posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926, Amy Lowell was a self-educated poet who favored Imagism and rejected "safe…
Nov 2, 2022
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October 2022
Small Acts; Huge Consequences
Dian Parker on the timelessness of Jean Giono. "Sharing these fraught times with Jean Giono’s wisdom and genius buoys me."
Oct 26, 2022
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Homer at the Met
John McMahon on the power of Winslow Homer's work. "It’s as if Homer, a big mustachioed man, whipped these canvases up in a frenzy of paint to match the…
Oct 12, 2022
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September 2022
Open Canon: Charles Burchfield
by John McMahon. The Romantic Realist, little remembered today, had a unique approach to watercolor landscape painting.
Sep 21, 2022
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Dinner With Andy Warhol
Sherry Shahan on Chelsea Girls. "An artist is somebody that produces things people don’t need to have." - Andy Warhol
Sep 14, 2022
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August 2022
Open Canon: Djuna Barnes
by E.R. Zarevich. Best known for her novel 'Nightwood,' Djuna Barnes is regarded by the LGBTQ community as a writer who dared.
Aug 10, 2022
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