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...failed," she writes, "to do what millions of Australians do every day." She begins her book with a dig at high-profile media colleagues who are, she says, too often more preoccupied with being players in events than with faithfully describing them. "I'm more intent on vivifying the flash of color and the blur of movement down below," she writes. There should be more...
...canvases like his Crucifixion of St. Andrew. The saint is shown at the moment of his miraculous death, when soldiers attempting to take him down from the cross alive (which would deny him the martyr's death he prayed for) were thwarted when God froze them in a blinding flash of light. Here Caravaggio's sharp illumination is not just a pictorial device; it's God's own light, thrown onto the scene. The mocking figure at lower right is the Roman proconsul who ordered the crucifixion, dressed in the armor of Caravaggio's day. At left is a peasant...
LEARNING TO FLASH...
...there is one thing that Benefield wishes to communicate to students, it is to “learn how to flash the ID.” Those little cards, Benefield says, provide “access to this enormous resource which is here for them.” It’s one of the ways that the museums are more accessible to students than many of Boston’s other galleries...
...define our identities. You don?t just happen to like chocolate, horses, long walks on the beach and cuddling, and hate rude men. At some age you chose to like Led Zeppelin because it helped you fit with the group you wanted to be in, or Grand Master Flash because it made you seem quirky. And in 1980, at 9 years old, after the U.S. defeated the Soviet Union, I chose hockey. Not so much to be patriotic but because I saw it as a personality opportunity. One that would pay richer dividends than my poorly thought-out gambit...