Art Is Fear
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Philippa Hughes
Creating space for conversations to transform society. Exploring what it means to be American. Recovering lawyer, public speaker, art fanatic philippahughes.com
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Fight for beauty
This is how we resist — by creating beauty that connects us, by building spaces that bring us together, by tending to hope even in the…
Beauty is what we are fighting for
I gave a Lassie’s Toast for Burns day last weekend!
Postcard From Paris
My best recommendation for visiting Paris, though, is to pick one thing to do each day and flâneur in the general direction of that…
Conversations with Care and Delight
At the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, an exhibit on dialogue asks: “Can dialogue create change?”
Have you eaten?
To eat is to know Vietnam. To show love in Vietnam is to feed. To ask “Have you eaten?” is to say “I love you.” Sharing meals is not just…
Plastic Stools and Prada
The internet cafe where I used to check my email in Hanoi in 2003 is now a coffee shop beside a two-story Uniqlo overlooking Hoan Kiem…
Revenge Massage
The day after we arrived in the mountain town of Ba Vi, two practitioners of Eastern medicine from a nearby clinic came to our hotel room…
Stranded in Transit
I’m traveling with my mother to Vietnam. In the rush to board our flight, her wheelchair was mistakenly checked through to Hanoi instead of…
Flower Power
“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda
Hey, We Need To Talk!
PBS NewsHour featured an art installation I created called “Hey, We Need To Talk!” in a segment about museums as a place for civic…
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