

My parents were beginning to negotiate a tumultuous divorce that actually wouldn’t happen for another few years. I had recently learned, along with the rest of my family, that my father was having an affair-something that seemed extremely obvious in retrospect, but shocking at the time. I first saw René Magritte’s painting Pandora’s Box (1951) during a difficult time in my life. Out today on Elephant is Phillipa Snow on Richard Prince’s Spiritual America. Together, our publications want to celebrate the personal and transformative power of art. A new piece will be published every two weeks on both Elephant and Artsy.


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