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Some notes on Dieter Roth for a Walker Art Center tour. Roth was born in Hannover, Germany in 1930 and he died in 1998 in Basel, …
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We tackled the topic of American cultural literacy last night at Socrate’s Cafe and, as always, the topic immediately turned to …
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A question that’s been kicking around my head for the past few days. This is just the start of a rough outline. Determining what …
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Barnett Newman was born in 1905 and died in 1970. When he was 40, at the end of World War 2, he destroyed all of his earlier artwork …
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Steven Pearlstein, business columnist for the Washington Post, wrote a column on the lack of leadership that led to the current …
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On or off. True or false. One or zero. This is how life feels right now, as another year ticks off on my personal odometer. The …
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What if social networking and media apps such as Twitter improve our collective sense of empathy? When I joined Twitter I followed two …
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Time for another mashup of ideas. I recently read about the September project, a group of good-hearted librarians who have been hosting …
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I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a classic literature reading group to meet somewhere out here in the Western burbs of …
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There are two extreme answers to the question of what we are responsible for? The maximalist position is that we are responsible for …
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