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    • • Life Gets Around: a discussion of the play Detective Story
    • • Is Kindness Possible in Sex? A Discussion of the play The Animal Kingdom
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    • • The Luminous and The Hidden: Opposites in Robert Hupka’s Photograph of Toscanini—and In Us
    • • Allan Michael - Photographer, Aesthetic Realism Associate
    • • Photography, Architecture, & Life
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CONEY ISLAND


A poem by Eli Siegel that I care for is, “This is Asked”:

What is art for? —
To like the world more,
To like ourselves more,
To like time more.

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