If Baitz Were Arts Czar…

images-1Playwright (“The Substance of Fire”) and TV-show creator (“Brothers and Sisters”) Jon Robin Baitz (pictured) has written a manifesto about what he would do if the White House appointed him America’s Head of the Arts. My favorite recommendations: “I would bring symphonies to small towns”; and “I would instruct the Smithsonian to develop a wing of political art, whose first exhibition would be about propaganda, torture and the Constitution.”

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