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Thom Nickels: Who is an artist?
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"The different arts communities in Philadelphia — theater, painting, poetry and literature — are like individual fish bowls arranged along the top of a wall. Each community is its own enclave or kingdom. Actors hang with other actors, visual artists keep company with other visual artists, and poets and writers generally keep to their own circles unless they have to jump bowls and write about actors or the visual artists.
This arrangement is confining, parochial, and limiting. It’s also a Philadelphia thing because, at least according to a poet friend of mine, the various arts communities in New York behave in a different fashion: they mix and mingle freely with one another..."
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