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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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    Death & Decapitation
    Lara Neri
    • Aug 29, 2019
    • 3 min

    Death & Decapitation

    I really don’t like thinking about death, but I think about it a lot. It is brought to the forefront of my thoughts by tragic events...
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    my top three favorite museums in London
    Lara Neri
    • Jul 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    my top three favorite museums in London

    The British Museum - full of brilliant historical art and artifacts - like the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles, and the colossal...
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    Whilst Residing at the Palace Court Hotel
    Lara Neri
    • Jul 19, 2019
    • 6 min

    Whilst Residing at the Palace Court Hotel

    or "Part Two of My First European Adventure" In the summer of 1995, I made my first trek across Europe. I began by touring England and...
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    My First European Adventure: Part One
    Lara Neri
    • Jul 11, 2019
    • 5 min

    My First European Adventure: Part One

    This month twenty four years ago, in the summer of 1995, I made my first trek across Europe. I began by touring England and Scotland...
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    Not Arrested in Italy
    Lara Neri
    • Jun 27, 2019
    • 6 min

    Not Arrested in Italy

    In the fall of 1995, I traveled to Italy to study for the semester at the University of Dallas Rome campus, located just outside of Rome...
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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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    Grandmother
    Lara Neri
    • Jun 6, 2019
    • 4 min

    Grandmother

    Growing up my I thought of my grandmother as grouchy and unpleasant. I never looked forward to visiting her and she, in turn, seemed...
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    Ascending Hero Mountain
    Lara Neri
    • May 30, 2019
    • 3 min

    Ascending Hero Mountain

    When I taught English in China, we were in a filthy, rat-infested village, crawling with giant cockroaches and shrouded in a pervasive...
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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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    Superheroes & the Triumph of Orthodoxy
    Lara Neri
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 3 min

    Superheroes & the Triumph of Orthodoxy

    The first time I remember seeing an icon was in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. I was taking a class in Israel my sophomore year...
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    Suffering & Softening
    Lara Neri
    • Feb 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    Suffering & Softening

    The feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple (2 February) is one of the Twelve Major Feast Days in the Eastern Church, also...
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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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    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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    the transformative power of story
    Lara Neri
    • May 9, 2016
    • 1 min

    the transformative power of story

    Various influences were dropped into my path that lead me into the Catholic Church, one of the most prominent being the work of Fyodor...
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    the feast of St. George
    Lara Neri
    • May 5, 2016
    • 1 min

    the feast of St. George

    St. George is a popular saint, renowned for slaying a dragon and saving a princess. He is venerated as a vanquisher of evil and knight of...
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    doing shots for the saints
    Lara Neri
    • May 2, 2016
    • 3 min

    doing shots for the saints

    The first time I met Babushka, my friend Ira’s 76 year old grandmother, she appeared as a tiny speck in a row boat across the water. As...
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    creating a sacred space in the home
    Lara Neri
    • Apr 26, 2016
    • 2 min

    creating a sacred space in the home

    When I was living in St. Petersburg, I rented a small, airy room in a sunny, high-ceilinged apartment on the corner of Dostoevsky Street...
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    Lara Neri

    Akathist Art

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