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Motion by Marla Prather
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"I think the mobiles help to slow us down."
June 19, 2013
Detail from Sanford Robinson Gifford's "A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove), a vast landscape in mostly gold hues.
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“The artist daringly creates an enormous void, and what he does so brilliantly is to fill the void with this extraordinary light.”
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
June 14, 2013
Detail of a pen and brown ink self portrait by Albrecht Dürer
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"All kinds of aesthetic decisions are taken that make the jump from an observation to a work of art."
Stijn Alsteens
June 12, 2013
Sea Change by Barbara Weinberg
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“The sea is a universal realm, and it's a place that we don't really understand.”
H. Barbara Weinberg
June 5, 2013
Startled by John Carpenter
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"Your perception of reality, your normal expectations of how you view things, is completely confounded."
John T. Carpenter
May 29, 2013
Family by Perrin Stein
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"I think David got at some essential aspect of being a parent."
Perrin Stein
May 29, 2013
Divinity by Denise Leidy
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"It looks like someone you might know, someone you might talk to."
Denise Patry Leidy
May 22, 2013
Morning Catch by Jeff Munger
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"It’s so exaggerated by current standards of taste that I think it’s very hard for us to appreciate it today."
May 22, 2013
Cinematic by Helen Evans
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"One doesn’t tend to think of silver plates as being quite as emotionally involving."
Helen C. Evans
May 15, 2013
Sustenance by Catharine Roehrig
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"They’ve captured her in a moment in time."
Catharine H. Roehrig
May 15, 2013