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Repository 229: Imagination Breeds Empathy
Once upon a time in Maryland a young boy named Deamonte lived with his Mom and brother. When he was 12 he came down with a toothache. His Mom looked all around for a dentist to care for him, though no one would take Medicaid. Deamonte did not complain. At the same time in 2007, though up north in the borough of Queens New York, a woman took a cab to the old building of Ps1 which is now the…
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Repository 149: Art and Empathy | Artists Exploring the Horrific
Art deals with things forever incapable of definition and that belong to love, beauty, joy and worship. The shapes, power and glory of which are ever building and unbuilding and rebuilding in each man’s soul and in the soul of the whole world. – quote by Victor Hugo carved on the facade of the Nelson Atkins Museum erected in 1930 Does anyone ever wonder where to turn the art spigot when things happening in the world seem beyond comprehension, beyond…
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