{"id":43293,"date":"2017-07-07T08:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=43293"},"modified":"2017-07-07T08:25:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T14:25:07","slug":"future-mormon-art-scholars-artists-gather-new-york-explore-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/07\/future-mormon-art-scholars-artists-gather-new-york-explore-possibilities.html","title":{"rendered":"“The future of Mormon art? Scholars and artists gather in New York to explore the possibilities”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Manhattan New York Temple (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I\u2019ve always resisted the widespread notion that art isn\u2019t really Art, that theater isn\u2019t Theatre, unless it\u2019s been Recognized in New York, and that we must genuflect to\u00a0Manhattan as our cultural\u00a0capital.<\/p>\n

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I savor and, to the limited extent that I can, try to support regional literature, regional art, regional publishers, regional drama, and regional cuisine.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve always gotten a kick out of the response to overweening New York pride from Larry McMurtry, whose writing has won the Pulitzer Prize, the Golden Globe, the Emmy, and the Oscar but who lives and works in Texas. \u00a0McMurtry was once spotted wearing a tee-shirt bearing this description of him by some New York publication or other: \u201cImportant regional novelist.\u201d<\/p>\n

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My question is, Why is Texas a \u201cregion\u201d but New York City isn\u2019t?<\/p>\n

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Was Flannery O\u2019Connor a merely \u201cregional\u201d writer?<\/p>\n

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Was William Faulkner merely a \u201cregional novelist\u201d? \u00a0He won a Nobel Prize, of course, but can that possibly outweigh the fact that he lived most of his life and set most of his fiction in Mississippi. \u00a0How about John Steinbeck, who lived in and wrote about areas in and around Monterey and Salinas, California? \u00a0Was he no more than a \u201cregional novelist\u201d?<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, neither Shakespeare (or, if you\u2019re so inclined, the Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford) nor Milton nor Goethe nor Dante nor Virgil nor Sophocles nor Homer enjoyed the privilege of owning a flat\u00a0in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

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Still, although I feel that I had to mention such arrogance-on-the-Hudson, I\u2019m happy to see this development:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865684235\/The-future-of-Mormon-art-Scholars-and-artists-gather-in-New-York-to-explore-the-possibilities.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Salt Lake City certainly isn\u2019t a world cultural center in many eyes or in most regards, and this museum should give Mormonism<\/a> and Mormon art and artists greater visibility not only in New York but on the east coast generally and beyond.<\/p>\n

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