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More art, less blather. More culture, deeper community. Cogitations from Charleston-based arts critic Maura Hogan via reviews, profiles, musings and analysis on the nexus of arts and community in the American Southeast.
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Review: The Halsey’s elegant, evocative exhibition mines Southern memory (opens the original)
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Almost any Southerner can tell you that there’s not a plot of dirt or stretch of water in these parts that doesn’t carry with it a layered past. Every tossed off oyster shell or scattered blade of sweetgrass is a conduit to memories well before we landed here.<source type="image/w
High-profile events converge on American political views (opens the original)
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Whatever the ideology that Charlestonians champion, there is one observation on which most would agree: The nation’s current political division is all but unbridgeable.If only we could wrench ourselves from laptop echo chambers to gather in the same room and hash it out, fact by fact and face to face, then things might change.Thanks for reading Culture South! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="em
Review: Pure’s world premiere throws cookbook at false piety (opens the original)
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