Mr. Imbelli and I boarded a US Air flight to Boston's Logan Airport early Wednesday morning to visit Alums at St. Mark's and Milton Academy. After the short, but snow delayed flight we sat with alums Jack '06, Harry '06, Jack '06, Pierre '07, and Peter '08 for a round table and lunch in the beautiful St. Mark's cafeteria. The boys were remarkably happy and comfortable. We then drove to Milton Academy to visit Curtis '08 before he left for a ski meet. We learned a lot from the boys about their successful transitions to high school, as well as suggestions for improvements at Saint David's. It was a productive and enjoyable visit. The boys are proud of their Alma Mater.
Yesterday evening, independent scholar and critic Michelle Marder Kamhi ( www.mmkamhi.com ), co-editor with husband Louis Torres of Aristos , an online review of arts; author of Who Says That's Art? A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts ; and grandmother of two Saint David's boys, gave a thought provoking talk on art for our grandparent community. An advocate of objective standards in arts scholarship and criticism, Ms. Kamhi focused her talk on the ways in which art critics such as Clement Greenberg promoted the shift from representational art to abstraction. Kamhi argues that the abstract and post-modern art prevalent today, which often requires explanation by docents in order to be understood, goes against art's purpose. Taking issue with Greenberg's contention that representation is an expendable convention of painting, she quoted the late art critic John Canaday: "Art is the tangible expression of the intangible values that men live by." ...
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