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Posted on 2022-05-022022-07-21 by David Hughes

The Mother and the Whore

Catalog Page of Alfredo Castañeda's Nuestros primeros padres

Last Thursday my wife Andrea Carney and I visited the Denver Art Museum to see the homegrown exhibition on the theme of La Malinche, nearly twenty years in the making.1 This was our first door-darkening since Covid-19 hit. During that time, and for three years before, the museum had undergone a major renovation. A little history…

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Posted on 2021-01-252022-09-08 by David Hughes

The Old Normal

Amazing Grace in Olney Hymns

I was annoyed Tuesday when the Biden-Harris tribute to the 400,000 fallen included that old, mm…, warhorse “Amazing Grace.” I muttered to my wife Andrea Carney, “Well, as long as they don’t trot out ‘Hallelujah’…,” which of course they did. “Amazing Grace” showed up time and again during the inaugural spectacle. Continue reading “The Old Normal”

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