Donald M. Reynolds is an art historian, lecturer, and consultant. He also serves as an adjunct professor of art history at Columbia University and Fairfield University, a member of the editorial board of American Arts Quarterly, and director of The Monuments Conservancy, which he founded in 1992. His previous experience includes stints as an advertising executive, a curator of parks for New York City, and director of public education for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of numerous articles and books on American sculpture and architecture, including Monuments and Masterpieces, The Architecture of New York City, Manhattan Architecture, Nineteenth-Century Art, and, most recently, Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition from the American Renaissance to the Millennium (1993), which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the National Sculpture Society.
Interview with Jerry Leeman: Today we bring you a story about a handful of fishermen rallying against a billion-dollar green industrial project, shady foreign corporations, and our own federal and state government. All are conspiring to generate a cash cow for...
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Anthropologists teach us that notions of the sacred are inherent in human nature. In other words, as human beings we have a natural propensity to consecrate, to sanctify, to make holy. The word “sacred” refers to that which is set apart as holy or which is dedicated to some exalted purpose. We secure sacred things against defamation or violation. Sacred things, then, we say are inviolate. Human life, for example, is inviolate. It is one of the things we hold most sacred. We have strict laws to protect it. Some cultures hold that all life is sacred. There is a