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PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE GHOST — This Hallowed Fantasy to Be Named on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE GHOST This Hallowed Fantasy to Be Named on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Marc Bamuthi Joseph reflects on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, art, memory and the institutional changes that followed the Center's leadership transition. LET'S SET THE STAGE Here is a rigorous, poetic and deeply interpretive voice — an artist speaking not from the sidelines, but as someone who worked within and benefited from the legacy of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts . His name is Marc Bamuthi Joseph , former Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at the Kennedy Center. He speaks about his departure and that of his Social Impact team following the executive and board upheaval at the institution. But listen beyond the circumstances of his dismissal, because Joseph is doing something considerably more profound here. He is describing wh...

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