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Art Is Fear

Eclipse Chaser

For a brief moment, I considered canceling my trip to see the eclipse last week. We’d booked a flight to Texas almost a year ago because…

3 min readApr 15, 2024

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Eclipse Chaser

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Philippa Hughes
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Art Is Fear

Art is the central organizing force of my life

“Get the Picture” is a new book that’s being touted as a takedown of the Art World and sure there’s a little of that in this funny…

5 min readFeb 19, 2024

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Art is the central organizing force of my life

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Philippa Hughes
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Art Is Fear

Cultivating the aesthetic mindset

Research-based civic engagement plus good old common sense conversations

4 min readFeb 2, 2024

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Cultivating the aesthetic mindset

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Philippa Hughes
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Art Is Fear

Searching for the truth about yourself

I was sobbing by the end of “How to be a Korean Woman,” a play written and performed by Sun Mee Chomet about her search for and reunion…

2 min readJan 10, 2024

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Searching for the truth about yourself

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Philippa Hughes
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Art Is Fear

Happy New Year!

My friend Ken helped me write a mission statement and five guiding values over a decade ago that helped steer me away from directionless…

2 min readJan 2, 2024

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Happy New Year!

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Philippa Hughes
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Art Is Fear

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

1 min readDec 25, 2023

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Merry Christmas!

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Philippa Hughes
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Art Is Fear

Rainbows and Unicorns in Paris

Loving Paris is so unoriginal.

1 min readDec 8, 2023

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Rainbows and Unicorns in Paris

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Philippa Hughes
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Art Is Fear

Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite

Alarming reports of a bed bug infestation filled my social media feeds in the weeks before I flew to Paris for my birthday in mid-October…

3 min readNov 16, 2023

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Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite

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Philippa Hughes
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Art Is Fear

Watch the world go by

Parisians are known for café life, but that doesn’t mean they serve great coffee. Paris café coffee is often bland and does not originate…

4 min readNov 13, 2023

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Watch the world go by

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Philippa Hughes
in
Art Is Fear

Magical birthday encounter

When we walked up to the ticket desk at the Picasso Museum in Paris, the attendant warned us that there were no paintings by Picasso on…

2 min readOct 16, 2023

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Magical birthday encounter

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Philippa Hughes

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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