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(Issue Story)Questioning the Canon
Beneath the Surface
This summer, in an attempt to encourage reading something other than Calvin and Hobbes comics (which, don’t get us wrong, we love and which are great for vocabulary), we decided to create a summer reading challenge. The idea was pretty straightforward. Each kid got a list of 25 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Mixed Markets
Beneath the Surface
The last 15 months (it was just months, right?) have wrought many changes, and a fascinating aspect of living in a historical moment is seeing how many of them become permanent. Maybe we have discovered that working from home does work for a number of people, that present ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Word of Advice
Beneath the Surface
Andrew and Hollie are taking the month off, but they decided that after last month’s column, even more advice might be appreciated, so enjoy these letters to Aunty Eek instead.
Dear Aunty Eek,
I recently received some terrible news and don’t know what to do. I love my local auction ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Graduation Day: “The Young Collector” Becomes “Beneath the Surface”
Graduation season is upon us once again, and for the next few weeks the news will be filled with the various founts of knowledge and advice that will pour forth. We have knowledge and advice too, some of it questionable, and since we’re not likely to be asked to give ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)New Tech for Old Stuff
The Young Collector
Much of the news of late in the art world has been about the sale of NFTs—or non-fungible tokens. If you are like us, you may have been struggling to understand this. (Or trying to ignore it entirely. We have gone back and forth on this a lot.) ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Control Issues
The Young Collector
Pandemic lifestyle grates on a person. Of course, at this point in winter, everything grates on a person, and as the anniversary of a year in shutdown rolls around for many of us, it grates all the more.
Many aspects of this are, as the kids would often say ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Spinning a Nostalgic Yarn
The Young Collector
We are doing it again—we’re guest co-curating an exhibition. What had started out as a small show about one Ohio folk artist has blossomed into a major loan exhibition scheduled for early in 2022 at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio in Lancaster, Ohio. The folk artist in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)To Price or Not to Price
The Young Collector
Even as you read this, doctors and nurses are administering vaccines. We can finally begin to believe that there is a life out there beyond the toilet-paper-hoarding fugue state that we have all been brumating in for nearly a year now. That life had stopped seeming like a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)All We Have
The Young Collector
In trying times, we find joy in small or unexpected places. One of our unexpected joys in the past seven months (which have felt like three and a half decades) is a weekly video chat that our younger child has with his cousin by cell phone. She is ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Waiting for the Light
The Young Collector
Usually about this time of year, we would turn in a travelogue of sorts. Light, we imagine, entertaining, we hope, the kind of thing you want to read about someone else doing because you would have more sense than to do it yourself. One of these crisp, bright ... (Read More)
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