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Ben Tilghman

Post-Mortem on an Undead Exhibition: “Art That Kills”

November 1, 2013 By Ben Tilghman 21 Comments

Once, while we were both in college, I went to visit my best friend from high school at Princeton University. As we were looking at a Calder, Scott told me he had heard that two workers had died during the installation of the sculpture.

Marking Time

April 2, 2013 By Ben Tilghman 24 Comments

My grandfather collected miniature books. Unfortunately, due to a stroke that robbed him of most of his speech before I was born and family tensions with his second wife, I never got to talk to him about his collection.

The Eyes of a Scholar, the Eyes of a Believer

October 15, 2012 By Ben Tilghman 20 Comments

Scholars feel like they need distance from a topic in order to work on it. But is it possible to be too far removed?

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