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The Artist Project

Posted on June 8, 2015 by admin

a treasure… “Ever since it was founded in 1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been a place where artists come to gain inspiration from works of art from their own time and place, and also from across time and … Continue reading →

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Searching for Sugarman – directed by Malik Bendjelloul

Posted on April 6, 2015 by admin

Speaking of movies that are surprising, affirming, and a wonderful look into a creativity-motioned life, Searching for Sugarman, a documentary. Here’s the trailer…

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Waking Life, a film by Richard Linklater

Posted on April 6, 2015 by admin

This is a visual, auditory, philosophical and dreamer feast… the full movie plays here: Waking Life by tvxorissinora

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Hung Liu

Posted on March 29, 2015 by admin

I’ve been gone. Painter Hung Liu brings me back

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Guido Galletti’s Christ of the Abyss

Posted on December 19, 2013 by admin

Do double click…and see the starfish.

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Mariza!

Posted on November 23, 2013 by admin

I’m so in love… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jApnqH-TWE and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jApnqH-TWE&list=AL94UKMTqg-9Bn-VIUN7PJrXEpY9LP6Ij8

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Brain Pickings

Posted on November 17, 2013 by admin

Have I told you about Brain Pickings? One of my weekly delights is getting the weekly email from Maria Papova’s Brain Pickings blog. Here’s a brief intro, from the TED blog. (This link also give yous M.Popova’s summer 2013 book … Continue reading →

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Seeing the Underside and Seeing God: Nadia Bolz-Weber with Krista Tippett at the Wild Goose Festival

Posted on October 26, 2013 by admin

This is good (moving, funny, enlightening) all the way to the end…and I suspect, beyond

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Art is … a holding and an investigation

Posted on October 6, 2013 by admin

I’ve been thinking about both these aspects of the making and receiving of art. Then I ran across this by Joyce Carol Oates in her preface to The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction, “All forms of art are … Continue reading →

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Louise Erdrich

Posted on October 4, 2013 by admin

makes me smile and smile as does this article by her, on language, life and writing http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/052200erdrich-writing.html

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