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Human, Soul and Machine: The Coming Singularity
Heady stuff at the American Visionary Art Museum
Are we the masters of our technology, or is technology dwarfing our humanity? I hope this exhibit will help me answer, or at least give me insight into, this question.
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An art-lover's road trip from Colorado to Indiana
Nature and the art of nature
A trip home from a meditation retreat offers a variety of perspectives on nature, art, and spirituality.
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The Met II in World War II
Philly secretly comes to the rescue
For two years during World War II, from 1942 to 1944, the Metropolitan Museum of Art went to war — in Philadelphia.
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A James Garfield themed road trip
Monuments and landscapes
Cleveland was the main stop — but not the only stop — on this art-lover's road trip.
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The future of museums
The future under glass
Museums run on objects, and even now, everyday life is becoming more ephemeral. Will people accustomed to accessing the world in their palms want to walk historic streets, sit in concert halls, or visit art?
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Philadelphia's Jeffersonian summer
The man behind the Declaration of Independence
Together, Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello and Jefferson, Philadelphia, and the Founding of a Nation offer a comprehensive view of one man’s intellect, privilege, ambition, accomplishment, and limitations. Despite his failings, it is impossible not to admire what Jefferson did. Given his many gifts, it is also impossible not to wish he had done more.
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Wheeling to Columbus to Cincinnati
Road trip to art
Venture beyond the Boston-to-D.C. axis for your next art-lovers' road trip.
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The gift shop at the 9/11 Museum
It has been said that America is exceptional. It is: It's exceptionally disrespectful. The 9/11 Memorial Museum, including its store, should never have been built.
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Musée de l'Orangerie and the Barnes Foundation
A tale of two museums
There are a variety of similarities, and differences, between Paul Guillaume and Albert Barnes, and between the museums housing their respective collections.
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A solo visit to Florence
Sorrows of a Florentine traveler
Nestled in the cradle of the Tuscan hills, this city of light, good food, and tiny medieval streets has a history as extraordinary as its beauty. Florence is the birthplace of the Renaissance, secularism, liberalism, rationalism, and the pagan world.
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