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TO REFLECT THE TIMES
the duties of an artist, as declared by the elder, Nina Simone
“An artist’s duty,” as Nina Simone famously declared, is to ‘reflect the times.’
The times.
We tend to take that declaration as a call to grand gestures: murals on city walls, manifesto-laden installations in museums, gestures so vast they feel as if they almost eclipse the very world they intend to mirr…
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