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    What is the value in abstract art?
    Lara Neri
    • Sep 20, 2019
    • 3 min

    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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    3 reasons to visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum
    Lara Neri
    • Aug 11, 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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    My favorite Russian Murderer
    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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    Flowery Sunday in Constantinople
    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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    Will "Beauty save the world"?
    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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    tea & tiny emperors
    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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    art camps: pursuing Beauty together
    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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    iconography: window to the Divine
    Lara Neri
    • Jul 6, 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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    love despite ugliness
    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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    rebirth & regeneration: the image of the snake
    Lara Neri
    • Jun 22, 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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    the iconography of faerytales
    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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    beauty & simplicity
    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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    enjoy an art museum today
    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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    Why come to an Akathist Art Girls' Night Out workshop?
    Lara Neri
    • Feb 12, 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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    Lara Neri

    Akathist Art

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