Happy 250th Birthday to Beethoven
“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.” —Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Baptized […]
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9/11 Inspired Art
“At first, it was hard to work. Everything seemed pretty trivial compared to it. Everybody said, ‘Do something that will take people’s minds off it.’ If you couldn’t figure out […]
Library Way: Walking with Literature
“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me […]
Subway Art: “The Greenwich Village Murals”
“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air […]
It’s About Time
“For what is time? Who can readily and briefly explain this? Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it?” —St. Augustine (AD 354–AD […]
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