Thank you, Gary Sachs, for being a draft resister! During my time in service, I would never have wanted to depend on your integrity in a life-or-death situation.
Those I served with were filled with true humanity. That's why only 8 percent of the population took the one step forward to allow others to live with no risk to their life of free expression, as witnessed by your photo of you holding the sign.
Respectfully,
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Artist Brent Birnbaum's new body of work will be on view at Epsilon Spires with a socially-distanced opening reception on Friday, Sept. 18 and by appointment until Friday, Nov. 6. Birnbaum's latest series of assemblages is composed of board games that the artist systematically deconstructed into hundreds of smaller “spaces,” which he then recombined in collage. He began by cutting the pathways and territories out from existing games to break the set logic of the boards and then created the...
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