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Beyond the Culture Factory |
| Section: THE ARTS / PERSPECTIVES |
| Author: Peter Catalano |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/2003 |
| Size: 2,973 Words, 19,067 Characters |
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I'm standing on a walkway over Sixty-seventh Street at New York's Lincoln Center. Across the windswept, desolate plazas lie the great culture factories of Manhattan. Here night after night, virtually year round, there's a whirl of operas, orchestras, recitals, theater, and dance. From where I'm standing the large Chagall murals in the Metropolitan Opera can be spotted through the great walls of glass, frontally greeting audiences entering the central plaza. On either side of the Met stand the marble facades of Avery Fisher Hall and the New York State Theater, their creamy glow now a bit faded from city soot.
The mind's eye envisions Lincoln Center, with its grind of programmed activities, alternatively engaged in cranking out tons of sausage or millions of microchips as efficiently as i...
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...orporate the prior steps of the naive and sentimental.
Eroding the barriers of separation and alienation that the modern culture factory and the urban arts complex have erected is incumbent upon our culture, desperate to find its soul. After all, factories and museums can perish. So too can privileged peoples dispossessed of a culture.
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