The Smile at the Heart of Things: Essays and Life Stories - Tapa dura

Brian H. Peterson wrestles with these questions and offers some answers in THE SMILE AT THE HEART OF THINGS, a wide-ranging and deeply satisfying collection of personal essays, journal entries, and reflections on art, artists, and art museums. Drawing on his experiences as a musician, visual artist, scholar, and museum curator, Peterson connects his own search for growth and meaning with larger issues of creativity and the human spirit, often by simply telling stories about his own life and the lives of artists, friends, and family members.For those of us who strive to juggle our career and family, our jobs and our true passions, THE SMILE AT THE HEART OF THINGS offers insight into the ways people balance their world and contemplates how religion, family, loss, love, and even personal struggles inform our lives and make them richer.

BRIAN H. PETERSON, Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum, has more than 30 years’ experience as a curator, critic, artist, and arts administrator in the Philadelphia area.