February 17, 2016

Occupy

Who owns the income disparity issue? Joseph Stiglitz? Occupy Wall Street? Bernie Sanders?

Clearly, income disparity is a central plank in Bernie’s campaign. He rants about the “Billionaire class” and excoriates Hillary for being “a tool of Wall Street” in accepting their tainted money. He will have none of it. His campaign is totally financed by individual contributions. Is this political chicanery in an attempt to gain attention or …

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Place Valois development

PLACE MAKING: on the poetics of the street (3)

Street, Square, Housing and Walkway: the poetics of an “urban set piece” In Montreal East End, diagonally across half a dozen blocs of an old industrial and residential neighborhood, an abandoned railroad right of way has been transformed into a pedestrian walkway, flanked by new residential development and anchored by a new square, at a …

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The American Family Dissected in Buried Child and The Humans

The American family comes in for a drubbing in two productions—The New Group’s revival of Sam Shepard’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner Buried Child and the Broadway transfer of Stephen Karam’s The Humans, which could well win the same award for 2016. Both plays tear apart the idealized view of the nuclear clan exposing the disillusionment and …

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$704 Billion. That's what the arts contribute to our economy

On February 16, 2016, the National Endowment for the Arts released its new report on the arts and economic growth. No surprise: They are intrinsically linked.  Following is the NEA’s press release along with their findings in infographic form. Today’s creative economy gets a big boost from the arts, according to new data from the …

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