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    Over and Out: Learning to Appreciate Art, Old and New

    How a passage from "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix" frames how we look at art today
    by Ta-Nehisi Coates Jan 07, 2011 2 minutes

    Before this week, it had been a while (maybe two years) since I had been forced to organize my thoughts and actually talk about art in a casual but remotely intelligent way. One of the things I did to try and prepare was flip through and reread passages from at random. For a lot of the people I know, it's sort of a required text. I picked it up again last night and found the 28 July 1854:

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