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Arthur Bruso’s art practice includes photography, drawing, collage, Cornell-like box constructions, as well as curation
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Arthur Bruso
- Oct 2
- 10 min
Loss and Disorder
Nearly her entire life, Virginia Woolf kept a record of her days in the form of diaries or journals.
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Arthur Bruso
- Aug 16
- 3 min
Science, Myth, Life, and Love
The libretto of Once She Dries tells the story of a coral reef in peril, in desperate need of shade and cooling.
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Arthur Bruso
- Jul 27
- 12 min
Please Do (Not) Touch
While viewing the Museum of Modern Art’s photography exhibition, An Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, fellow artist Raymond E. Mingst
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Arthur Bruso
- Jul 24
- 1 min
Penitent - Tim Hawkinson
Tim Hawkinson generally succeeds with his work. “Penitent,” is one such work that uses tongue-in-cheek humor while also giving the viewer so
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Arthur Bruso
- Jul 24
- 2 min
Hocus Pocus
AMONG THE THEORIES to the origin of the rhyme Hocus Pocus, it is either a true incantation in ancient ritual magic, or a pseudo-Latin phrase
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Arthur Bruso
- Jul 2
- 7 min
A Near Failure of Eternity
Like all Egyptian rulers, Seankhare Mentuhotep III was extremely concerned with his name and the accomplishments of his reign outlasting
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Arthur Bruso
- May 30
- 7 min
A Special Place in the Air
Climbing to the fourth floor of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and commanding the entrance to the Hall of Dinosaurs
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Arthur Bruso
- Feb 7
- 9 min
Into The Black Pot
Review of Buried Secrets by Edward Humes As many religions attest, there are two paths of life to take in the world: the narrow, straight...
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Arthur Bruso
- Nov 10, 2022
- 4 min
Training the Eyes to Train the Hand
Sketchbook Drawings Despite being a photorealist artist when I began my career, I could not draw. I realized this in figure drawing...
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Arthur Bruso
- Oct 28, 2022
- 12 min
Little Cubes
In the spring of 1914, Picasso was still deep in exploring cubism and its possibilities as sculpture.
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Arthur Bruso
- Sep 20, 2022
- 8 min
Playing God
The first recorded Mesoamerican people, the Olmec (c. 1,600 – 400 BC) conceived of a god that controlled the life-giving rains.
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Arthur Bruso
- Sep 20, 2022
- 2 min
Work of the Penitent
THERE HAVE BEEN PRISONS ever since there have been civilizations with laws that could be violated, but the idea of reforming
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Arthur Bruso
- Sep 19, 2022
- 1 min
Mark Dion: An Archaeology of Disorder
An Archeology of Disorder was conceived by Mark Dion while artist in residence at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
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Arthur Bruso
- Jun 24, 2022
- 2 min
Re Emergence
New Jersey is home to a diverse and robust artistic community; the New Jersey Arts Annual exhibition highlights the work of visual artists a
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Arthur Bruso
- May 27, 2022
- 6 min
Stories For a Stormy Night
The title of this book, Passing Strange, denotes an exemplary of strangeness. It alludes to the notion that the story or events related are
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Arthur Bruso
- Apr 4, 2022
- 13 min
Flash in the Pan
At 25 years old, young Jakob Bohme, had a spiritual vision that would change his life.
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Arthur Bruso
- Feb 21, 2022
- 12 min
Unnatural Order
A female figure of the Cihuateteo type, depicts a woman who died during childbirth. The closed eyes and open mouth illustrate the trope of t
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Arthur Bruso
- Feb 13, 2022
- 1 min
Mark Dion’s The Phantom Museum
The cabinet of curiosities emerged during the 16th century. While some still exist today, the majority of them are no longer extant, but...
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Arthur Bruso
- Feb 11, 2022
- 1 min
PennDesign* Alumni Exhibition
I participated in the group exhibition of PennDesign Alumni, SoHo Show-Off which was up from January 16 - 29, 2008 at the Louis K. Meisel...
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