What is the value in abstract art?
This week I took my 7th and 8th grade art students to visit the Modern art museum in Fort Worth. There were a lot of comments such as:...
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Lara Neri
- Aug 10, 2019
- 2 min
3 reasons to visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Despite many trips to Washington DC, I had never been to the Smithsonian American Art Museum until this summer. It is not one of the...
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Lara Neri
- Jun 13, 2019
- 5 min
My favorite Russian Murderer
My husband and I have just finished a refreshing three-day class at the Dallas Institute discussing Gogol’s Dead Souls, Melville’s...
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Lara Neri
- Apr 11, 2019
- 5 min
Flowery Sunday in Constantinople
Flowery (Palm) Sunday began to be celebrated in Constantinople by the fifth century - a couple centuries after it began in Jerusalem and...
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Lara Neri
- Feb 28, 2019
- 3 min
Will "Beauty save the world"?
I have often heard or seen Dostoevsky quoted, “Beauty will save the world.” It is attributed to him as if it were his personal...
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Lara Neri
- Jan 17, 2018
- 2 min
tea & tiny emperors
This past summer I was very blessed to be able to participate not only in another iconography class with the Byzantine School of...
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Lara Neri
- Jul 26, 2016
- 2 min
art camps: pursuing Beauty together
Two intensive weeks of art camps have come to an end, and I am thankful for the experience. I kept enrollment to four students per camp...
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Lara Neri
- Jul 5, 2016
- 2 min
iconography: window to the Divine
I have just returned from a beautiful, powerful, intense experience where art and prayer were indistinguishable. I have come away with a...
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Lara Neri
- Jul 5, 2016
- 1 min
love despite ugliness
Today at our last elementary art camp we read Beauty and the Beast – the classic fairytale that speaks of the great sacrifice required by...
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Lara Neri
- Jun 21, 2016
- 1 min
rebirth & regeneration: the image of the snake
Today in our third Tuesday of elementary art camp, we read Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, an African fairytale about a prince who...
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Lara Neri
- Jun 15, 2016
- 2 min
the iconography of faerytales
With the collapse of Imperial Russia and the rise of the Bolsheviks in 1917, the art & prayer of icon painting was suppressed....
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Lara Neri
- Jun 8, 2016
- 1 min
beauty & simplicity
The Japanese have a gift for the pursuit of Beauty. It is apparent in their art, their fashion, their gardening, their tea ceremony. The...
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Lara Neri
- Jun 3, 2016
- 1 min
enjoy an art museum today
Now that school is out, many parents are looking for interesting, fun alternatives to sitting around at home watching their children...
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Lara Neri
- Feb 11, 2016
- 2 min
Why come to an Akathist Art Girls' Night Out workshop?
In these times, in our country, many women live isolated lives. Mothers feel societal pressure to do everything themselves - the cooking,...
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