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21 Jan 2019 Decorative Arts / Porcelain

When Thousands of Hands Held a Secret for a Thousand Years – Porcelain, Part 1

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science, said

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13 Nov 2018 Sculpture

Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* (Part Two)

In 1879, Auguste Rodin entered a competition to design a war memorial honoring the Parisians who defended the city while it

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25 Oct 2018 Sculpture

Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* (Part One)

(Above: Rue de Rivoli, Paris; 1871) What makes a war memorial appropriate or inappropriate? Whom or what should be remembered?

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27 Sep 2018 Paintings

The Inevitably Acquiescent Volcano

Vulcan thought his ex-wife was out of the picture. Then one day while he was at work, she suddenly appeared

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8 Sep 2018 Sculpture

A Perfect Indian is He*

In 563 BCE, in foothills of the Himalayas, a holy man prophesied that the king’s newborn son, Prince Siddhartha Gautama,

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21 Aug 2018 Sculpture

Send lawyers, guns and money*

There’s something special about marble. Ever since the invention of metal tools during the Bronze Age, marble has been carved by

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1 Aug 2018 Paintings

Of and Off The Grid

In 1957, forty-five-year-old artist Agnes Martin rented a studio in Coenties Slip among the abandoned buildings along the dilapidated waterfront

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Meighan Maley is a Guide at The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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