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		<title>Contemporary Art: How and Why</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Strykowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autumn promises to be an exciting time for New England’s contemporary art scene. The new Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art has just opened at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts while the renovated Rose Art Museum will celebrate its grand opening in Waltham, Mass., on October 27. Here’s some food for thought before you step [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abouttheartist.org&amp;blog=13309766&amp;post=1157&amp;subd=abouttheartist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anniversary Greetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Strykowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, Today marks one year since the public launch of About the Artist on September 1, 2010. Much has happened during the past twelve months. Articles and other pages on the website were together viewed more than 5,000 times. The Maverick and the Champion, my book about artistry and style in the world of music, hit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abouttheartist.org&amp;blog=13309766&amp;post=1136&amp;subd=abouttheartist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyd Alexander, Apprentice to Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Strykowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHEN I WAS A KID, my mother gave me a copy of The Drackenberg Adventure, starring one of Lloyd Alexander’s most memorable characters, an intrepid redhead named Vesper Holly. Last week, as I was sorting through my library in preparation for the move back to Waltham, I happened upon this book and decided to read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abouttheartist.org&amp;blog=13309766&amp;post=1094&amp;subd=abouttheartist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty and the Box Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Strykowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Digest reminds us that the opportunity to observe some fascinating examples of maximalism and classicism can be found right at your hometown movie theater. SUMMER IS THE SEASON for blockbuster sequels, and this year, the expected Part Twos and Part Threes are increasingly joined by Part Fours—as well as one noteworthy Part Seven-and-a-Half. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abouttheartist.org&amp;blog=13309766&amp;post=1065&amp;subd=abouttheartist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Face of a Buddha</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 16:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Strykowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TO SAY THAT the work of any artist falls along a spectrum of classicism and maximalism is one thing, but to grasp intuitively the artistry of someone who worked in an unimaginably distant time and place using our familiar knowledge of pressures and constraints is something else. This article examines two very different visual artists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abouttheartist.org&amp;blog=13309766&amp;post=1050&amp;subd=abouttheartist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One More Time: Constraint of Subject</title>
		<link>http://abouttheartist.org/2011/04/30/one-more-time-constraint-of-subject/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Strykowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TO SET THE STAGE for today’s article about the constraint of subject, we recently examined the process of poetic translation (“Three Poets, One Poem,” March 2011). From that article emerged a very difficult question: Is a poet being a poet when the verses she crafts in English derive from those which already exist in Spanish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abouttheartist.org&amp;blog=13309766&amp;post=1027&amp;subd=abouttheartist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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