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Belfast 1984

2024-03-13T11:38:18-04:00April 14th, 2023|Phil Cantor|

  President Biden was in Belfast, Northern Ireland on April 12, 2023 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Accords that put an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Troubles were decades old, a civil war between Catholics and Protestants. The fact that a type of peace was possible in 1998 gives me a little hope that there could be a similar peace someday between Israelis and Palestinians. In 1984, I [...]

Unauthorized use: flattered or annoyed?

2024-03-13T11:40:43-04:00March 29th, 2023|creative, travel|

I got an unusual email the other day from an author who, while researching the 20th Century sculptor Alberto Giacometti, discovered that my 2019 blog post about a trip I took to the Vancouver (Canada) Art Museum where I photographed myself next to a Giacometti sculpture called "The Walking Man"  had been stolen by a Chinese company for their website (see screenshot above) to sell their knock-off copies of famous sculptures.  Do the famous artists [...]

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