{"id":6006,"date":"2010-04-14T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T21:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2016-05-03T15:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:45:37","slug":"art-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=6006","title":{"rendered":"Art.  Right Now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New (Flower) Moon<\/p>\n<p>More rain.\u00a0 Not much, but some, enough to keep the ground moist.\u00a0 The greenness factor has sky-rocketed in the last 24 hours.\u00a0 Grass.\u00a0 Shrubs.\u00a0 Trees. They join the early perennials in optical song.\u00a0 A joy and a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>Walk through today&#8211;not tomorrow as I thought&#8211;of Until Now, the new contemporary art show at the MIA.\u00a0 Whoa.\u00a0 This is a good show.\u00a0 In 8 galleries it gives an overview of major contemporary art movements like pop art, identity art, art triggered by globalization, art created with media including digital projection as well as two amazing video works.\u00a0 I want to review this exhibition as soon as I complete my research.\u00a0 We&#8217;re lucky to have Liz Armstrong.\u00a0 (photo by Robert Polidori is in the show.)<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming.\u00a0 A piece on why the decline in teaching positions and majors in the humanities may not be a bad thing.\u00a0\u00a0 It may force those of us outside the academy to remind ourselves of historical models like the Chinese literati and the Renaissance humanists, amateurs who nonetheless kept the literary and artistic culture through individual efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New (Flower) Moon More rain.\u00a0 Not much, but some, enough to keep the ground moist.\u00a0 The greenness factor has sky-rocketed in the last 24 hours.\u00a0 Grass.\u00a0 Shrubs.\u00a0 Trees. They join the early perennials in optical song.\u00a0 A joy and a miracle. Walk through today&#8211;not tomorrow as I thought&#8211;of Until Now, the new contemporary art &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=6006\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Art.  Right Now.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,87,566],"tags":[2355,145,2354],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-garden","category-humanities","tag-humanists","tag-literati","tag-until-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36995,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions\/36995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}