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Opinion | I Was in Love With a Tree That Swallowed the Sky

The cutting of a beloved tree felled my heart. Then a bird came.

After these days of rending, of loss, of violence, of grief, of convulsant change, may we find a beautiful, grateful reimagining. May we land as the blue bird does, resting and peaceful.  ~Laura Hillenbrand

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Russian Speakers Imitate Art In A Time Of Coronavirus Confinement On Facebook

An art project to shake the lockdown blues has become an online sensation as pent-up Russian speakers from across the globe reenact classic artwork to pass the time amid the pandemic.

It's hard to put a finger on it, but it's a certain Russian know-how — funny, ironic and depressing all at once.  ~Kira Yastrebova

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Three Poets on Marriage and Female Identity

A discussion of wives, husbands and the names we choose to go by.

When I’m out in the world as a writer I’m writing about the things that reflect my lived experience, which tell a fuller picture than just my name might tell you. So my name is both a reflection of what is visible and invisible.  ~Denice Frohman

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Opinion | Sonny Rollins: Art Never Dies

It outlives the contentious political veneer that we cast over everything.

When I go to the museum and I look at a piece of art, I’m transported. I don’t know how, or where, but I know that it’s not a part of the material world. It’s beyond modern culture’s political, technological soul. We’re not here to live forever. Humans and materialism die. But there’s no dying in art.  ~Sonny Rollins

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Play’s the thing

Creative ways of training staff

“A little bit of poetry and comedy goes a long way. One wouldn’t want an entire training day to consist of jokes or rhymes. But online or offline, these kinds of innovative techniques can enliven those endless seminars when the clock never seems to reach 5 PM.”

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Feel Like Screaming? Google Has a New Smartphone Filter That Turns You Into Munch's 'Scream' and Other Famous Artworks

Google Arts & Culture are working with the J. Paul Getty Trust for a new filter that recreates your surroundings as famous works of art.

Have you ever wondered what your breakfast would look like if it was painted by Caravaggio? Now, there’s an app for that.  ~Kate Brown

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A Poetic Journey Through Western China

For years, Silk Road travelers made the grueling trek past towering mountain ranges and ancient cities now lost to time. Centuries later, one writer attempts to retrace the journey.

“DO YOU BELIEVE the voices are real?”

“You mean the singing sands?” 

“Not the singing sands.  I mean voices. Like ghosts. Do people in the West think they exist?”

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An African Literary Festival for the Age of Coronavirus

Book events worldwide are on hold, but Afrolit Sans Frontieres uses social media to host frank discussions around writing, creativity, sex and violence.

The coronavirus has clearly opened up vistas of possibility and connection for writers.  Maaza Mengiste:  “I jumped at the chance [to curate a virtual literary festival, connecting African writers with readers the world over].  Doing this online breaks a lot of boundaries that felt insurmountable.”

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The Millennial Art Star Julie Curtiss's Paintings Now Sell for Half a Million Dollars. It's Kind of Freaking Her Out | artnet News

Prices for works by Julie Curtiss are up 10,000 percent in just two years. But some see a bubble that could burst.

All I see in terms of press is just about the auction prices, and it’s a little frustrating.  And all the articles are like, ‘Are you going to survive this?’ Talk about the art then, if you’re concerned about it.  ~Julie Curtiss

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Old Masters, Who Never Met, in Conversation

An exhibition at the Rijksmuseum brings together works by Rembrandt and Velázquez. They lived at the same time, but in different worlds.

The intention of both was always to go deeper into the psychology of their sitters. To be closer to reality, to be closer to religion, and to be closer, in general to the human condition.  ~Nina Siegal

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In Search of Hilma af Klint, Who Upended Art History, But Left Few Traces

In and around Stockholm, the secretive painter — whose bold abstract works predated Kandinsky’s — lived a life of spiritual yearning that shaped her artistic career.

The pictures were painted directly through me, without any preliminary drawings and with great force... I had no idea what the paintings were supposed to depict, nevertheless I worked swiftly and surely without changing a single brush stroke. ~Hilma af Klint

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8 by Ron Villejo, PhD Via Flickr: Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet. Romeo and Juliet (Act II, scene ii)

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7 by Ron Villejo, PhD Via Flickr: Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself. Romeo and Juliet (Act II, scene ii)

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6 by Ron Villejo, PhD Via Flickr: So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo and Juliet (Act II, scene ii)

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5 by Ron Villejo, PhD Via Flickr: Deny thy father and refuse thy name; ... O, be some other name! Romeo and Juliet (Act II, scene ii)

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4 by Ron Villejo, PhD Via Flickr: What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. Romeo and Juliet (Act II, scene ii)

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3 by Ron Villejo, PhD Via Flickr: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. Romeo and Juliet (Act II, scene ii)