tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181251538881295139.post7197260957741958948..comments2024-02-17T06:32:38.467-06:00Comments on Slowly Percolating Forms: Visual Art and the Sacred: On The Importance Of MuseumsDavid O'Harahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12262049304946368085noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181251538881295139.post-78464022751033361572013-08-14T14:23:13.082-05:002013-08-14T14:23:13.082-05:00Thanks, Byron. Your brief description of your expe...Thanks, Byron. Your brief description of your experience is moving, and it makes me feel like we've got something important in common. <br /><br />The longer I teach the less confident I am in the "factoids" and the more confident I am that there are sublime experiences waiting around corners, and that my job is one in which I have the privilege of urging students to continue to David O'Harahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12262049304946368085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181251538881295139.post-36464901419642787462013-08-14T14:09:04.955-05:002013-08-14T14:09:04.955-05:00I just read your "Picasso/Guernica" piec...I just read your "Picasso/Guernica" piece in _The Chronicle Review_ (August 16, 2013). Well said. Truly.<br /><br />I had a similar experience with Michaelangelo's "Freed Slave" and "Dying Slave" one day at the Louvre in 1976, where those masterworks were on loan. I had studied them in college, but thought they weren't much. I was 21, and so wrong. I downed Byron G. Curtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358205818264389649noreply@blogger.com