Blog – John Zic

Posted on June 28, 2017

Dorothy Parker on Aspiring Writers

Posted on June 26, 2017

Author Julia Fierro Discusses Point of View

Posted on July 18, 2016

Lauren Alwan’s “The Foreign Cinema”

Posted on January 30, 2016

A Cycle of Eternal Return

Posted on November 19, 2015

Why There Are Words Reading

Posted on July 16, 2015

Eugene O’Neill

Posted on July 6, 2015

A Quick Note on Getting Better at Difficult Things

Posted on June 15, 2015

Achingly Beautiful

Posted on June 14, 2015

It’s Alive!

Posted on December 16, 2014

Stephen Hawking

Posted on December 16, 2014

Henry David Thoreau

John Z
@dorzix

@marcorubio You keep quoting from the same novel and are not impressing anyone.
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@RandPaul @RepAdamSchiff I didn't know you sucked whistles. Do that often?
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Publius
@ThePubliusUSA

Devin Nunes should resign. He defrauded the American people, failing to disclose a titanic conflict of interest, namely his involvement in the underlying fact pattern. John Z Retweeted
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Tochinoshin Chi (aka Rich)
@Dr_Tochinoshin

You’re not hearing much from @Jim_Jordan because ever since I got Rolling Stone magazine to write the piece about Gym allowing these young men to be raped and sexually assaulted, he’s staring down the barrel of about 35 civil law... John Z Retweeted
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Tiffany Cross
@TiffanyDCross

A Black woman is delivering the articles of impeachment. For the white supremacist president. That’s all. John Z Retweeted
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Kamala Harris
@SenKamalaHarris

The Senate should not advance any judicial nominees while the person who nominates them is on trial. Period. https://t.co/LYwE3hQawD John Z Retweeted
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Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈
@Amy_Siskind

Wow, Lev Parnas has openly implicated VP Pence and AG Barr for being in on it - and Bolton for knowing everything.
Sounds like we need witnesses, including all three of them. John Z Retweeted
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Manu Raju
@mkraju

Sen. Martha McSally, a Republican facing a difficult election race, lashed out when I asked if she would consider new evidence as part of the Senate trial. “You’re a liberal hack - I’m not talking to you. You’re a liberal... John Z Retweeted
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Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈
@Amy_Siskind

Thinking at this moment how Robert Mueller failed the American people. As bad as the Ukraine scandal is, the stuff in his report was far worse and dangerous to our elections and democracy. He had a moment after Barr's lies... John Z Retweeted
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Kamala Harris
@SenKamalaHarris

The Senate is receiving the articles of impeachment against President Trump today. We should not advance any more judicial nominees while we take on this solemn responsibility of the president’s trial for high crimes and misdemeanors. John Z Retweeted
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Posted: 5 days ago
Jon Cooper 🇺🇸
@joncoopertweets

I can’t believe I’m writing this, but it increasingly looks like associates of Donald Trump were planning a mob hit to murder an American ambassador. John Z Retweeted
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Nancy Pelosi
@SpeakerPelosi

This is why President Trump was impeached for obstruction of Congress, and why a Senate trial with no witnesses or documents is a cover-up. #EndTheCoverUp #DefendOurDemocracy https://t.co/w9Gl5VmjBu John Z Retweeted
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Posted: 6 days ago
National Gallery of Art

Verrocchio’s Medici Tombs: New Observations and Technical Analysis Dylan T. Smith, Robert H. Smith Research Conservator, department of object conservation, National Gallery of Art
Between 1464 and 1473, Andrea del Verrocchio created two funerary monuments for the Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence: the tomb ... 0 1820 0 35 mins 0

Posted: 6 days ago
National Gallery of Art

The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art: Andrea Mantegna’s Stones, Caves, and Clouds Gabriele Finaldi, director, National Gallery, London
In his lecture, presented on December 8, 2019, Gabriele Finaldi of the National Gallery, London, discusses Mantegna's particular universe as constructed in stone: carved, cut, polished, and sometimes invented. In his compelling imaginarium, the ... 5 2568 0 55 mins 1

Posted: Last week
National Gallery of Art

Tapestry Program: Lessons of Darkness
This program, featuring music by Ravel, Satie, Lili Boulanger, James Reese Europe, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, commemorated the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day and presented works of composers affected by the war. This concert was held ... 2 643 0 41 mins 0

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National Gallery of Art

Instructional Videos: Didactic Documentary for the Postmodern Era Zach Feldman, contractor, department of film programs, National Gallery of Art
The notion of didactic art has been both lauded by the ancient Greeks as a powerful educational technique and dismissed by 19th-century Romantics as overburdened with facticity and morality. ... 3 912 0 24 mins 0

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National Gallery of Art

Collaborations and Investigations in Sound: Alex Braden and Emily Francisco in Conversation Alex Braden, artist, and Emily Francisco, artist, and gallery support specialist, department of media production, National Gallery of Art
In this conversation held on November 4, 2019, as part of the Works in Progress series, artists Alex Braden and Emily ... 2 2935 0 42 mins 0

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National Gallery of Art

Cima da Conegliano and Venetian Landscape Painting Sarah Hyde, development officer for planned giving, National Gallery of Art
Cima da Conegliano was a prolific painter in the Venetian Renaissance known for his bright colors and spatial harmony in his landscapes. While Cima is often compared to his ... 0 3506 0 22 mins 0

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National Gallery of Art

Executed En Masse: Early Modern Portrait Prints at the National Gallery of Art Lara Langer, 2019 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow
In 1943 Lessing J. Rosenwald gifted roughly 6,000 works on paper to the nascent National Gallery of Art. By the time of his death in 1979, his collection had grown to over 28,000, including ... 0 2102 0 24 mins 1

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National Gallery of Art

The Living Legacy National Speaking Tour: David C. Driskell and Curlee R. Holton in Conversation David C. Driskell, artist, curator, and Distinguished University Professor of Art, Emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park; and Curlee R. Holton, artist and director, David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans ... 0 2729 0 75 mins 0

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National Gallery of Art

Introduction to the Exhibition—The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art Kimberly Schenck, head of paper conservation, National Gallery of Art, and Stacey Sell, associate curator of old master drawings, National Gallery of Art
Through the centuries, artists have adopted a variety of approaches to pastel, experimenting with it to achieve ... 2 2367 0 40 mins 0

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National Gallery of Art

Photography and Nation Building in the Nineteenth Century Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums
On the 180th anniversary of photography’s introduction to the world in 1839, The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art offers an in-depth look ... 1 2394 1 45 mins 0

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National Gallery of Art

The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professors at the National Gallery of Art: Antoinette Le Normand-Romain Antoinette Le Normand-Romain (former director of the Institut national d’histoire de l’art and former Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art) discusses Auguste Rodin’s sculpture The Walking Man (1903). Le Normand-Romain describes a history of The ... 1 2941 1 11 mins 0

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National Gallery of Art

Fifteenth-Century Florentine and Tuscan Sculpture in the National Gallery of Art David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art
Italian sculpture of the 15th century in Florence and Tuscany, departed from the elegant, decorative style of the earlier Gothic period to reflect a greater admiration for, and understanding of, the strength ... 0 4161 0 130 mins 0

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National Gallery of Art

Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Dutch Art of the... Eric Denker, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art
The 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series, Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art, takes a closer look at the many treasures housed in the Gallery’s permanent collection. Works ... 2 2995 0 75 mins 1

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National Gallery of Art

The Role of Libraries in our Cultural Landscape Daniel Boomhower, director of the research library, Dumbarton Oaks; Sir Peter Crane, president, Oak Spring Garden Foundation; Nancy E. Gwinn, director, Smithsonian Libraries; Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress; Roger Lawson, executive librarian, National Gallery of Art; David Leonard, president, Boston ... 2 3727 0 70 mins 0

Posted: 2 months ago
National Gallery of Art

Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the NGA: Masterpieces of American Furniture Dianne Stephens, senior educator, National Gallery of Art
The 2019 Summer Sunday Lecture Series, Celebrating the Old Master Collections of the National Gallery of Art, takes a closer look at the many treasures housed in the Gallery’s permanent collection. On ... 1 2026 0 61 mins 0

Posted: 2 months ago
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Da kids relaxing on a Sunday afternoon. 10 Likes

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Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower. Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower. 0 Repin Likes

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An abandoned highway in the Rocky mountains of Canada An abandoned highway in the Rocky mountains of Canada 3 Repin Likes

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Super cell in Nebraska Super cell in Nebraska 0 Repin Likes

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Hello from Carly 11 Likes

Posted: 9 months ago
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Ahhh warm sun on her back! 3 Comments
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Posted: About a year ago
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Carly's eyes will melt your heart. 2 Comments
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It's True ❤️ It's True ❤️ 0 Repin Likes

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WSWorldBookClub

Jonathan Franzen - Freedom US literary superstar Jonathan Franzen talks about his hugely acclaimed novel Freedom. An epic of contemporary love and marriage, Freedom charts the exploits of the Berglund family, capturing the temptations and burdens of liberty, the thrills of teenage lust, the ... 63 2665 3 50 mins 0

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WSWorldBookClub

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday World Book Club talks life, sex, drugs, if not rock ‘n’ roll to chart-topping Irish writer Marian Keyes about her best-selling novel Rachel’s Holiday. She answers BBC listeners' questions from around the world, and also reads several passages from her ... 15 706 0 49 mins 0

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WSWorldBookClub

JD Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye Harriet Gilbert discusses JD Salinger's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye with a studio audience, including questions from BBC World Service listeners as far afield as Nepal and the Czech Republic. She's in New York's Algonquin Hotel, long-time hangout ... 85 2922 0 50 mins 0

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Ray Chen Violin

Ray Chen & Luca D'Alberto "Bach-Teaser" TEASER track.
More to come if we see some love. 6853 377355 133 3 mins 0

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Ray Chen Violin

LIVE IN SWEDEN: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 1st Movement extract Performed live on February 28th, 2015 with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Kent Nagano 7704 445014 101 3 mins 0

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