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• 2017 Index: The Twenty "Most Vibrant" Arts Communities In America

  27-04-2017 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The overall index is composed of three dimensions: supply, demand, and government support. Supply is assessed by the total number of arts providers in the community, including the number of arts and culture organizations and employees, independent artists, and entertainment firms. Demand is gauged by the total nonprofit arts dollars in the community, including program revenue, contributed revenue, total expenses, and total compensation. Lastly, the level of government support is based on state
  
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• Lindsay Pollock Steps Down As Editor Of "Art In America"

  27-04-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Under Pollock’s leadership, Art in America instituted regular features such as artist-designed covers and mini-profiles of up-and-coming artists. She also expanded the magazine’s international coverage, publishing regular reports from far-flung parts of the world in the “Atlas” column.
  
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• Viviane Sassen at Stevenson, Johannesburg

  27-04-2017 23:28 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Visual AIDS Names Esther McGowan Executive Director

  27-04-2017 23:03 via artnews.com
  Esther McGowan, the current associate director of Visual AIDS, will serve as the art nonprofit’s executive director beginning in July. McGowan joined the organization five years ago, under its current director, Nelson Santos, whose departure after 17 years was also announced today. … Read More
  
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• The Day They Dropped A Piano From The Sky (And Inspired Woodstock?)

  27-04-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whether Woodstock would have happened without Sky River is, of course, anybody’s guess, but Sky River absolutely would not have happened without an even less-heralded event called the Piano Drop, a one-day Dadaist spectacle held on April 28, 1968, in a tiny town (its population was just 455) northeast of Seattle called Duvall. As the name of the event suggests, the Piano Drop featured a dropped piano (which organizers hoped would land on a specially prepared wood pile with a resounding cra
  
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• Frieze reframed for the post-truth era

  27-04-2017 23:00
  
  Reflecting director Victoria Siddalls aim that Frieze, true to its editorial roots, should be a place where art is made, discussed and debated, there will be protest in the air when the fair unfurls its serpentine white tent for its sixth edition in New York.
  Some galleries are using Frieze as a platform to respond to current events. A multimedia presentation by Thomson & Craighead at the Carroll/Fletcher gallery includes an end times perfume, while gallery artists from Ghada Amer to Lynda
  
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• Frieze New York gets reframed for the post-truth era

  27-04-2017 23:00
  
  Reflecting director Victoria Siddalls aim that Frieze, true to its editorial roots, should be a place where art is made, discussed and debated, there will be protest in the air when the fair unfurls its serpentine white tent for its sixth edition in New York.
  Some galleries are using Frieze as a platform to respond to current events. A multimedia presentation by Thomson & Craighead at the Carroll/Fletcher gallery includes an end times perfume, while gallery artists from Ghada Amer to Lynda
  
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• Forced migration anchors a show in Italy

  27-04-2017 23:00
  Visitors to The Restless Earth, an exhibition organised by Massimiliano Gioni for the Fondazione Trussardi and Triennale Museum in Milan, enter the show beneath one of two lightbox signs: EU or Others. Created by the artist Sejla Kameric for the third Manifesta biennial in Ljubljana in 2000, they mimic the border control signage she encountered while travelling between Sloveniawhich had already started the process of joining the European Unionand her native Bosnia, which still remains outside t
  
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• Artists show their childhood work for a cause

  27-04-2017 23:00
  
  Ever wonder what your favourite artists made as kidsor if your child may be destined for success as an artist? Head to the exhibition My Kid Could Do that at Red Bull Arts New York tomorrow, 29 April, which features childhood works by artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Will Cotton, Cecily Brown and Rashaad Newsome. The event is put on by ProjectArt, a New York-based non-profit that runs free after-school arts programmes in public libraries in New York, Miami and Detroit. The artist Kiki Valdesrep
  
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• Gustavo Dudamel Makes Rare Statement On Venezuela And Gets Criticized From All Sides

  27-04-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Opponents of the Maduro regime, which is trying to starve the country into submission, have accused Dudamel of targeting the opposition by failing to name the government as the cause of present miseries. Supporters of the Government are calling him a turncoat. Debate is raging across social media."
  
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• How Wikipedia Found Its Way Toward A Definition Of Happiness: 6,000 Edits By 3,000 Users

  27-04-2017 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In this way, Wikipedia understands something that most philosophers after Socrates didn't - definitions are not static, and cannot be perfected and finalized. They must be constantly challenged, updated, reverted, and discussed. Wikipedia is like a Socratic dialogue on a massive scale." Nikhil Sonnad did a deep dive into the 14 years of edits (some of them pretty ugly) that led to the impressive entry the site has now.
  
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• Youth Shelter In Oregon In Oregon Refuses Donation By Portland Gay Men's Chorus

  27-04-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What's more shameful is that Hearts With A Mission is so fearful of being perceived as endorsing — what?" the Medford Mail Tribune wrote in an editorial. "The existence of gay men? The performance of choral music by gay men in a church sanctuary to benefit a charitable organization?"
  
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• Anger as Tate asks staff to contribute towards boat for Nicholas Serota

  27-04-2017 21:23
  
  Notices about ‘leaving gift’ appear in staff rooms amid disputes over low pay and outsourcing, and end of canteen discountTate has come under fire after it asked members of staff, many of whom are not paid the London living wage, to contribute towards a boat for departing director, Nicholas Serota, just one week after their canteen discount was taken away. A notice which went up in the staff rooms of both Tate Modern and Tate Britain on Wednesday asking employees – including se
  
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• The Human Brain Is A Sort Of Time Machine

  27-04-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano argues our brains are "constantly tracking the passage of time, whether it's circadian rhythms that tell us when to go to sleep, or microsecond calculations that allow us to the hear the difference between 'They gave her cat-food' and 'They gave her cat food.' In an interview with Science of Us, Buonomano spoke about planning for the future as a basic human activity, the limits of be-here-now mindfulness, and the inherent incompatibility between physicists' and neur
  
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• Coast to Coast: At LACMA, an Action-Packed Look at the Visionary Art Dealer Virginia Dwan

  27-04-2017 20:51 via artnews.com
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• Mana Contemporary Plans Protest Against Plan to Defund the NEA

  27-04-2017 20:45 via artnews.com
  Following news last month of a Trump administration proposal that would defund the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Mana Contemporary, the cultural center with spaces in Chicago and Jersey City, New Jersey, is planning … Read More
  
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• Eugene Symphony NAmes New Music Director (Here's Why That Might Interest You)

  27-04-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  National and even international attention has been focused on music director searches in Eugene lately because three of the last four people on the podium — Marin Alsop, Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Giancarlo Guerrero — have all gone on from their jobs here to national prominence.
  
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• Tiny geology centre vies with Tate Modern to be museum of the year

  27-04-2017 20:20
  
  Five-strong shortlist includes little-known Lapworth Museum in Birmingham, which houses over 250,000 geological specimens A tiny and for decades little-known museum of geology will be pitted against the mighty Tate Modern in the 2017 museum of the year award. The Art Fund announced a shortlist of five museums that will compete for the world’s largest prize for a museum, the winner of which will receives £100,000. For the first time this year, the runners-up will get £10,000.The
  
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• Wolfgang Tillmans Directed a Video for Electronic-Music Artist Powell

  27-04-2017 20:06 via artnews.com
  Fact Magazine reports today that the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has directed a video for the song “Freezer” by the British electronic-music maker Powell. The video is a collage of still and moving images set to Powell’s fractured, post-punk-influenced techno. … Read More
  
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• What It Was Like Being A Black, Left-Wing Pundit Facing Bill O'Reilly On Fox News

  27-04-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rich Benjamin: "Despite my disgust with the format and with Fox [News] in general, I felt that if I could get a sizable slice of O'Reilly's viewership to think fairly, for a few moments, about undocumented immigrants, corporate wage theft, or police brutality, my time would be well spent. ... I could gauge the quality of my performance on The O'Reilly Factor by the response from viewers. When I received no response, I knew my efforts had fallen flat. In other instances, just minutes after wrappi
  
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• Your Move: On the High Line, Darren Bader Will Supply the Chess Board, but People Will Serve as Pieces

  27-04-2017 19:58 via artnews.com
  It is not always clear that one is looking at a Darren Bader work. The venturesome New York–based artist has quietly, almost covertly, presented two burritos on a windowsill at MoMA PS1, his aunt’s SUV in a sculpture park during Miami … Read More
  
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• Galerie Perrotin Now Represents the Estate of Hans Hartung

  27-04-2017 19:37 via artnews.com
  Galerie Perrotin will now represent the estate of Hans Hartung, the French artist associated with the Art Informel and Tachisme movements. The gallery, which has spaces in Hong Kong, New York, Paris, Seoul, and Tokyo, will showcase the painter’s work … Read More
  
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• Once A Decade: Granta Picks The 21 Young American Writers To Watch

  27-04-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The literary magazine has a stellar track record picking writers. Rather than make a yearly list, Granta picks looks over the course of a decade to choose writers it thinks will make an impact.
  
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• ‘I Was Really a Nerd’: Lowery Stokes Sims on Her Life in Art at ArtTable’s 2017 Benefit

  27-04-2017 19:29 via artnews.com
  At its annual benefit luncheon and awards ceremony, ArtTable, the national organization devoted to professional women in the visual arts, honored Lowery Stokes Sims and Lauren Cornell. Sims received the 2017 award for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts, and … Read More
  
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• Mika Tajima and Patricia Treib Named Winners of 2017 New York Artadia Awards

  27-04-2017 19:13 via artnews.com
  Artadia named the winners of its 2017 New York Artadia Awards today: Mika Tajima and Patricia Treib. For the award, available to visual artists living in New York City for over two years, both artists will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds.Tajima … Read More
  
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• Ta-Nehisi Coates's 'Between The World And Me' To Be Made Into Theater Piece

  27-04-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Mr. Coates's fiery work - which made him the National Book Award winner and a Pulitzer Prize finalist [and, arguably, earned him a MacArthur 'genius award'] - will be adapted into a multimedia performance, with excerpted monologues, video projections, and a score by the jazz musician Jason Moran. Portions of Mr. Coates's letters to his son would be read aloud, while narratives of his experiences at Howard University and in New York City could be performed by actors."
  
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• New Museum Curator Lauren Cornell Named Chief Curator of Hessel Museum, Director of CCS Bard’s Graduate Program

  27-04-2017 18:49 via artnews.com
  Lauren Cornell, a longtime curatorial ambassador for the New Museum in New York in different roles spanning digital art and technology initiatives, has been named director of the graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and … Read More
  
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• Decoded: Ancient Carvings In Turkey Tell Of Comet That Devastated The Earth

  27-04-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Evidence from the carvings, made on a pillar known as the Vulture Stone, suggests that a swarm of comet fragments hit the Earth in around 11000 BC. One image of a headless man is thought to symbolise human disaster and extensive loss of life. The site is at Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey, which experts now believe may have been an ancient observatory."
  
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• Cornelia Parker review – a current affairs lesson devoid of empathy

  27-04-2017 18:15
  
  Frith Street Gallery, London
  The British conceptualist is clearly enraged by the chaos in the world today – but her new work can only muster sneering contemptHow can art adequately face up to an age in which Donald Trump is president of the United States, the civil war in Syria is more than six years old, and the far right threatens to become part of Europe’s political mainstream? It is tempting to conclude from Cornelia Parker’s inane attempt to engage with some of these reali
  
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• Ah, Where Are The Avant-Garde Art Movements Of Yesteryear? (A Trip Down Memory Lane)

  27-04-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With Jerry Saltz just having ruminated on "The Avant-Garde That Lost By Winning," what about the ones that simply lost? Alex Greenberger and Andrew Russeth offer "an unabashedly opinionated deep dive into the terms, artists, and movements that may once have seemed destined for the canon but that now chart as footnotes, as well as many that have returned to the forefront."
  
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• We Should Be Very Careful About What We Call "Art" (And Who We Call "Artists")

  27-04-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whereas "artists" originally were, by definition, people who create art, "art" is now defined as anything made by a purported artist. The "institutional theory" codifying that premise is fully operative in the global art establishment.
  
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• How Playwrights Have Been Putting A Spotlight On Gun Violence In America

  27-04-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Cite the numbers, and the problem instantly becomes too vast to grasp: More than 33,000 people killed and upward of 78,000 wounded by firearms each year in the United States ... This is where the stealthy power of theater has an advantage, at least theoretically. ... News reports arrive after the fact, but theater can meddle with time and dimension, showing us the before, the during, the yet to come." Laura Collins-Hughes surveys the plays that have been exploring the issue.
  
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• 'A Modestly Shattering Discovery' - Alex Ross On The Lost Stravinsky Score That Surfaced Last Year

  27-04-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Like thousands of other Stravinsky fans, I listened to a live stream of the première, my anticipation heightened by descriptions that the composer had supplied later in life. (He called it 'the best of my works before The Firebird, and the most advanced in chromatic harmony.') Like many others, I felt mild disappointment. Funeral Song contains no thrilling premonitions of the Stravinsky to come. ... Yet, after spending more time with the piece ... I felt a growing fascination. The music
  
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• What does Trump's plan to abolish estate tax mean for collectors?

  27-04-2017 16:34
  
  President Donald Trumps tax reform plan, revealed on Wednesday by the US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, includes the elimination of the estate tax, a move that would impact both wealthy collectors and cultural charities.
  Some form of inheritance tax, or as its opponents dramatically like to call it, the death tax, has existed in the US for most of its history. Currently, an estate has to be worth at least $5.49m before it starts b
  
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• An Open Letter To The Dancer Who Hates Herself

  27-04-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alessa Rogers of Atlanta Ballet: "I see you. I know who you are. If you think you are hiding your self-loathing, you are deceiving only yourself. It is time to stop. ... Don't be seduced by the feeling that berating yourself makes you a better artist. I know you are trying to protect yourself by saying self-judgmental things so that it won't sting if others do. But putting yourself down will not endear you to the people in the front of the studio."
  
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• The Star Ballerina Who's Making A Real Career As An Actress

  27-04-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Irina Dvorovenko retired from ABT in 2013, and since then she's had roles in two major dramatic television series. She tells Gia Kourlas how it happened.
  
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• What Other States Can Learn From Rhode Island's Arts Incentives

  27-04-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the country, [it] has become a powerhouse when it comes to attracting artists and art lovers to its shores. And the method by which state leaders have leveraged Rhode Island's tax code to benefit the creative community could serve as a model for other states looking to cultivate a stronger arts economy."
  
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• Agent Who Conned Friends Into Investing In Non-Existent Play Pleads Guilty To Larceny

  27-04-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Roland Cahill claimed to have purchased the rights to soprano Kathleen Battle's life story and that he was producing a one-woman show starring Lupita Nyong'o about Battle's firing from the Metropolitan Opera.
  
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• Morning Links: Ersatz ‘Étant Donnés’ Edition

  27-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• For First Time Ever, Met Museum Chooses Choreographer As Artist-In-Residence

  27-04-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been seriously getting into dance lately. But now it's taking its love affair one step further: Gallim Dance director/choreographer Andrea Miller was just named the museum's artist in residence for the 2017-18 season - the first dance artist ever chosen for that distinction! We caught up with Miller to find out exactly what this means."
  
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• What The Two French Presidential Candidates Propose For The Arts

  27-04-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Emmanuel] Macron ... has declared his intention to maintain the cultural budget in exchange for greater efficiency. He wants all schoolchildren to have access to cultural and artistic education, and has proposed a €500 annual 'culture pass' for young people. ... [Marine] Le Pen, meanwhile, ... has made no overall budget commitment. However, as part of her focus on French patrimony, she wants to increase funds for heritage and conservation by 25%. She also wants to stop the sale of nationa
  
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• Ban On Indian Movie For Being 'Lady-Oriented' Overturned

  27-04-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Lipstick Under My Burkha, a drama that explores the sexual awakenings and personal struggles of four small-town Indian women, was initially denied classification [by the Central Board of Film Certification] ... On Wednesday an appeals board overturned that decision, saying ... 'There cannot be any embargo on a film being women oriented or containing sexual fantasies and expression of the inner desires of women.'"
  
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• Brand-New Music Director Quits Oslo's Opera House Because He (And Everyone Else) Can't Get Along With Artistic Director

  27-04-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Karl-Heinz Steffens announced that he's already decided to leave his post next year. Steffens was popular and had been viewed as a unifying force in an organization riddled with conflict, but he claims he simply hasn't found a good tone with the Opera's incoming and embattled Artistic Director, Annilese Miskimmon."
  
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• Performing 'Hamlet' In A Sandstorm At A Syrian Refugee Camp

  27-04-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dominic Dromgoole, the former director of Shakespeare's Globe and godfather of the company's every-country-on-earth tour of Hamlet, writes about the tour's visit to Amman, Jordan, and to the Zaatari settlement for refugees near the Jordanian-Syrian border.
  
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• Novel About Medieval Sufi Mystic Wins International Prize For Arabic Fiction

  27-04-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mohammed Hasan Alwan's A Small Death retells the life of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240), considered by some the greatest of Sufis and by others (conservative Muslims) an apostate, and his journeys across the breadth of the Islamic world. The award includes $50,000 for the author and another $50,000 toward the costs of translation into English.
  
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• Maybe it's because I'm an EastEnder

  27-04-2017 12:46
  
  The British artist and author Edmund de Waal praises Royal Academy of Arts' chief executive Charles Saumarez Smiths new book on East London, which is out today (27 April). De Waal describes the RA boss, a resident of the East End since the 1980s, as being a very good companion on his flaneurial walks, amusing, erudite and engaged in his response to buildings, people and places. The insiders guide to exploring the East End, published by Thames & Hudson, features everything from Ani
  
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• Nitsch performance using slaughtered bull to go ahead in Tasmania

  27-04-2017 11:11
  
  A performance by the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, which will use the carcass of a slaughtered bull to stage a bloody, sacrificial ritual will take place, as planned, on 17 June in Tasmania.
   
  Animal rights campaigners had tried to block the work, the artists first in Australia. By this morning, 27 April, a petition set up on change.org by Animal Liberation Tasmania, which called on the City of Hobart to stop the Nitsch performance because it trivialises the slaughter of animals for huma
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.26.17

  27-04-2017 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A failure of SHIFT — there wasn’t much buzz
  Why I’m writing these posts about SHIFT, a festival featuring orchestras from around the U.S., coproduced in Washington by the Kennedy Center and Washington Performing Arts, with all tickets affordably priced at $25):  ... read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2017-04-26Out-of-Towner Downer: Metropolitan Museum Considers a Xenophobic Admission Policy
  Saul Steinberg‘s famous New Yorker cover portraying how Manhat
  
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