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Arts Commentary: The Distance Between Us and the Museum
By Mark Pawlak For a working-class kid from Buffalo who once saw museums as places for other people, a lifetime among Cambridge and Boston collections became an education in class, access, exclusion, and the complicated act of looking. Any Sunday when the weather turns—low gray clouds, steady rain, the threat of snow—my thoughts drift toward…
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