By now, I have tried out approximately one gazillion concepts, arguments and images intended to convey my passion for art’s public purpose. Some have great persuasive power and some, despite my deep conviction of their merit, don’t quite get over.
Sometimes, these are like beloved children who learn to walk or talk behind schedule: you just [...]
When Worlds Converge
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The Disappointment System
My friends tend to a few views of President Obama and the Democrats at the end of Year One. They seem different, but actually, all are part of the Disappointment System, my new name for the combination plate of hurt and response which has become our national dish. As is so often the case, what [...]
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Embracing The Outsider
My ancestors were nomads and refugees, and I have carried on that tradition. Sometimes I think I was born packed and ready to go. I no longer speak the language of infants, so I can’t quote my exact thoughts, but I have the distinct impression that the synapses that fired when I first opened my [...]
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Necessary Beauty
In ordinary conversation, beauty can be an answer: what nourishes the spirit, kindles desire, soothes the heart? But in the more self-referential realms of the art world, it is a question. Critics and curators ask if “mere beauty” is a mask for deeper truth. Does it snag the eye, diverting attention from the true essence [...]
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Art and Public Purpose
The Cause: You’re Beautiful site is one expression of a movement I care deeply about, which includes countless artists in every nation who place their gifts at the service of the causes they cherish. Some of them do it by making art about issues; and some by collaborating with non-artists to create work that expresses [...]
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The Antidote
The antidote to the objectification that allows human beings to treat each other as things is to see each others’ faces as I did in my painting studio — as I did through God’s eyes — as the container for a spirit that is whole and holy and beautiful beyond belief, regardless of the scars life has left on the body encasing it.
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