Art, healing, community and love. This week's read-worthy links.
ARTINFO: After Fukushima: How Art Can Again Help Japan Find Its Way - "The most important role of the artist in society is not about building infrastructure, but about promoting ideals that open up new perspectives." Japanese Curator Shinya Watanabe writes about art's healing potential in Japan.
LA Times: Arts Bloom Anew in Leimert Park - Art walk reviving this historical enclave of black culture and arts.
NY Times: Eccentricity Gives Way to Uniformity in Museums - Are museums losing their personalities in the process of modernization?
Art Daily: Last John Keats Love Letter in Private Hands for Sale - The last of John Keats' love letters to Fanny in private hands up for sale. Love lives on in memory and auctions.
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