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Pyrrhic Politics- Faustian Follies
An essay on corollaries of ancient and contemporary events- Brian Keeler Above - A 1634 painting by the French artist Nocholas Poussin...
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Nov 197 min read
Evocations into the Sublime - On Collecting 19th Century Paintings
An impression of the current show of Hudson River School paintings at the University of Scranton's Hope Horn Gallery.- - Brian Keeler...
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Oct 287 min read
Flickering and Fugitive Light on Timeless Crags
An essay on painting the oppositions within coastal motifs- Brian Keeler In the course of painting Maine and Massachusetts coastlines...
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Oct 1710 min read
Get Real or Get Ideal! The Gist and Purpose of Art- ?
An essay on the functions of art- in our homes, museums, towns and media- Brian Keeler Above- "July Light on Urban Chess" is a large oil...
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Sep 229 min read
What would Mussolini think?
An overview of the political landscape - an essay- Brian Keeler Indeed, what would the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)...
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Aug 276 min read
Prequel/Sequel: To Rivers in Time
Thoughts on Thomas Cole and Frederic Church - Rivers and the ancient antecedents- an essay- Brian Keeler The Hudson River School...
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Aug 246 min read
Academic Rigor, Revolution and Resolve- The Clark Art Museum's Show of Guillame Lethiere-
An essay- Brian Keeler The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA has long been a favorite as a destination for...
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Jul 247 min read
Veering toward a Vision, Via Virtue
Plumbing Renaissance visionaries for Wisdom- Brian Keeler For all those movers and shakers over the decades and centuries who have...
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Jun 308 min read
If Stone Could Speak-
Reflections on "Pasquinades, Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue" A review of the book by Anthony Di Renzo -Brian Keeler If you've...
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Jun 275 min read
Commons Concerns-
An essay on the Ithaca Commons- Brian Keeler This Commentary published in The Ithaca Times- July 17, 2024 As I've been on the Commons in...
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Jun 247 min read
Solstice Sun Salutations
Reflections on the Third Annual Susquehanna Summer Solstice Fest- Brian Keeler We are doing some good things at the Susquehanna Summer...
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May 317 min read
On Obsonia- Or Quoting the Quotidian
A reflection on genre painting from antiquity to today- Brian Keeler Who would think that the art of the humble, commonplace or everyday...
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May 128 min read
The William Benson Retrospective- A Career of Expressing Beauty
Impressions of the exhibit at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts-May 4- 25, 2024- Brian Keeler Note- This review was...
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Apr 178 min read
Drawing Inspiration- The sculpted forms of Carpeaux and others
Availing ourselves of the beauty in museums- exploring "corporeal topography." Brian Keeler We have at our beck and call an unbelievably...
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Mar 216 min read
Oh, Orwellian Omnipresence-
Travails in surveillance and legalese- Brian Keeler As the saying goes, "We'd all be rich if it weren't for insurance and taxes." I...
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Mar 37 min read
Its in the Cards-
Reflections on the Tarot- and the expressions of card playing in art - Brian Keeler Above- a painting by the author of card players-...
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Feb 237 min read
Crackered out and Fracked up- A Tale of Two States
An essay on environmental collapse - Fracking, war zones and other fraught issues- Brian Keeler Liquified Natural Gas, (LNG) and Fracking...
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Feb 167 min read
Food for Thought- Cuisine as Art
Impressions of dining and the new movie "The Taste of Things" - Brian Keeler Above- Vermeer's painting, "The Milkmaid" of 1660 is...
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Jan 288 min read
Art as an Antidote-
Contemplating the fate of art education today -and considering art as a benefic process for a troubled world- Brian Keeler To assuage the...
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Dec 29, 20238 min read
Godly Land or The Landed Godly
Reflections on two paintings of the Renaissance- Bellini and Bruegel- Brian Keeler I had an epiphany, of sorts when considering two...
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