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The malignant, lingering spectre of Puritanism stalks the land today, rattling its chains everywhere from the Senate floor to our exhibition spaces for contemporary art. Contemplating this revenant has reminded me of my own encounter with it here on Staten Island, back in the fall of 1980. The Island’s indefatigable champion of the arts, Dan […] “Joan,” I asked my friend as we walked the streets of Madrid on an early evening in late winter, “why does it say ‘ONCE’ on all the kiosks here?” Joan stopped to look at me. “‘Once’? It says ‘Once’ on a kiosk?” “Not just one kiosk, Joan,” I told him. It says ‘ONCE’ on every […] |