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Entreaty of the Enfilade-
An Essay on Interior Perceptions- by Brian Keeler “The Doors of Perception” the title of Aldous Huxley’s 1954 controversial book about...
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Apr 18, 20217 min read
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De-Pontificating Bridges-
An essay on the visual expressions of bridges and boats- Brian Keeler As the idea for a new exhibit coalesced around the alliterative...
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Apr 8, 20217 min read
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Maximizing the Minimalism or vice versa-
Musing on architecture and art (or the lack thereof)- an essay by Brian Keeler From Bellini to Brutalism and from Raphael to...
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Mar 4, 202110 min read
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Eurythmic Light- The Sound of Color
An essay on the sonorities of painting by Brian Keeler The term “eurythmic” embodies a fascinating concept that alludes to the underlying...
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Feb 23, 20218 min read
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Nascent Nocturnes and Lucent Lunar Liaisons
An essay on the mystery of night scenes by Brian Keeler The soft edges and the inchoate possibilities hidden in the shadows are part of...
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Feb 17, 20216 min read
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Temporality- Barns, River Eels and other women etc.
Contemplating the impermanence of so many things- an essay by Brian Keeler As I was immersed in painting my most recent landscape, a...
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Jan 29, 20215 min read
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A Stairway with a View-
Appreciating Angles and Atmospheres at the Baldwin Stairway in Ithaca- An essay on art and historical elements by Brian Keeler It is...
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Jan 16, 20216 min read
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The Denoument- Finally, Some Fresh Air- (maybe?)
An essay by Brian Keeler, on the end of a scoundrel-ship - "The Denoument," is appropriate here but somehow too charitable as well, for...
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Jan 7, 20217 min read
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Reflections on The Continuum of The Classics
From the Campagna to Cole’s Catskills - Art in Italy and America Book Review of “America’s Rome” By William L. Vance An Essay by Brian...
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Dec 29, 202010 min read
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Drawn to Drawings-
The Manner of Mannerism- An Homage to the Drawings of Andrea Del Sarto - an essay by Brian Keeler Andrea Del Sarto, I have often said,...
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Dec 17, 20208 min read
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The Last Judgement- Pearls "over" Swine
An Essay on a clash of cultures- Spiritual and artisitic with the crass, profligate and materialistic- By Brian Keeler This essay was...
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Dec 11, 20205 min read
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An Autumnal Light on Painting-
A Solar Meditation- Still Life Arranged for Autumnal Light- an essay by Brian Keeler The definition of wisdom according to Dante...
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Nov 26, 20209 min read
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Pursuing the Soul in Renaissance Florence
Essential Ideas of the Renaissance- An essay on the timeless Philosophy of Marsillio Ficino by Brian Keeler This reflection on...
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Nov 13, 20206 min read
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Figurative Facts and Flesh-
Figurative Facts and Flesh- French Connections- An essay on the human form in impressionist art- by Brian Keeler The inspiration for...
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Nov 1, 20207 min read
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The Art of Hell & Horizons of Hope -an essay on inversions of normality
An essay reflecting on politics, poetry and painting- by Brian Keeler The art of hell is, well, a vision of a place one would not one to...
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Oct 22, 20208 min read
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Myth Meridians- An essay on allegory and antiquities aligning in art- by Brian Keeler
The myths we live by and the narratives that inform our experience and entire culture have long interested me. The way they align on...
Brian Keeler
Oct 5, 20207 min read
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Unsafe at Any Speed- LNG on roads and rails
Unsafe at Any Speed- LNG Transport- A Tale of Two Towns in PA - By Brian Keeler “Unsafe at Any Speed” is of course the title of the 1965...
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Sep 4, 20205 min read
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Iconoclasm; Yours or Mine? An Essay on Imagery and attachment by Brian Keeler
Who are you calling an Iconoclast anyway! Well, now that I’ve been reading about iconoclasts or image smashers, it seems that the term...
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Jul 30, 202012 min read
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Art Toppled- Controversy of Context
On a Plinth or in a Gilded Frame- Public Art in the limelight- An essay by Brian Keeler We’ve been through some tumultuous times in...
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Jun 22, 20208 min read
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On Machiavelli, transforming into a verb or an adjective- An essay and book review by Brian Keeler
Niccolo Machiavelli is probably on the extreme periphery of most people’s awareness today (if at all) but somehow after more than five...
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May 16, 20208 min read
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