Day: April 7, 2010

Mourners revealed in stone

By the time we encounter most older art on display in a museum it’s been set up in a context that radically manipulates the ways in which we read it. This is especially true in the case of ecclesiastical art. It’s illuminating to contemplate why this doesn’t happen in the display of “The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures From the Court of Burgundy” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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The teacher’s way of wisdom and innovation

A culture of experts and novices or professionals and amateurs encourages neither tradition nor innovation. In vibrant communities of practice, tradition, or the transmission of knowledge, is a creative act. Consider what the word ‘lay’ or ‘laity’ means outside church talk – “Amateur, inept, or inexpert, not professional.”

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