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Audacious Ideas: Bringing Back Serialized Literature

Posted on April 19, 2012 by

Audacity defines the best and worst within us. It is boldness or daring, accompanied by confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought or other restrictions. It is also effrontery, insolence or shamelessness. The “Audacious Ideas” essay series celebrates … Continue reading →

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A Cool, Dark Make Believe World Under Our Grandmothers’ Tables

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

Under my great-grandma Coley’s ornate dining room table, I made the first make believe world that I can remember. The table’s four thick legs splayed out from a center pole and ended in wooden lions’ paws clutching wooden balls. Whenever … Continue reading →

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Art, Inside and Out

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

“How does a young painter today make peace with an art world in which photography and image-mediated reality reign supreme, an art world supposedly after the end of Modernism, in which self-reflexive art-historical irony is all the rage?” Michael Salcman, … Continue reading →

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