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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 27
- 6 min
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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bkeeler
- Aug 24
- 6 min
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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bkeeler
- Jul 24
- 7 min
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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bkeeler
- Jun 30
- 8 min
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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bkeeler
- Jun 27
- 5 min
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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bkeeler
- Jun 24
- 7 min
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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bkeeler
- May 31
- 6 min
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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bkeeler
- May 12
- 8 min
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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bkeeler
- Apr 17
- 8 min
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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bkeeler
- Mar 21
- 6 min
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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bkeeler
- Mar 3
- 7 min
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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bkeeler
- Feb 23
- 7 min
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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bkeeler
- Feb 16
- 7 min
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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bkeeler
- Jan 28
- 8 min
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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bkeeler
- Dec 29, 2023
- 8 min
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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bkeeler
- Dec 19, 2023
- 6 min
The Topography of Light-
Contemplating the play of sun across the land- Brian Keeler We painters love the way light describes our world. In fact, the description...
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bkeeler
- Dec 8, 2023
- 8 min
On Guitar- Yoga for the Fingers- Inspiration for the Soul
A journey toward hoizons of growth with the guitar- Brian Keeler I have a terrific guitar teacher, well two actually, as there is a...
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bkeeler
- Nov 26, 2023
- 6 min
Drawing on Tradition-
An essay on sketching from masterworks in museums- Brian Keeler Tradition sustains us- allowing for innovation which invigorates us. The...
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bkeeler
- Nov 19, 2023
- 7 min
Correlations- Steinbeck to Caravaggio
An essay on the relations of iconic imagery- From Ancient Rome to the America of the 1930's- Brian Keeler Sacrifices in life that...
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