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Monday, May 12, 2025

Anthony Cefali and Dan Sullivan


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Exhibit exemplifies U.S.

The late Studs Terkel, an American author, had the amazing ability to extract histories from people. He acted as a conduit for rich history to flow through, unabated by conventional media filters. Through Terkel we saw a different America, one overflowing with humility, honesty, misery and unbridled joy. It was an America that we all could identify with. The newest exhibit at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, ""Apple Pie: Symbols of Americana,"" engages this same America largely via the Midwest.

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Have the 'Times' of your life at art exhibit

In his 1971 novel ""Rabbit Redux,"" John Updike thrusts his estranged hero, Rabbit, into the climax of the space race. Rabbit finds himself, like many other Americans, observing the first steps on the moon. Stuck on the ground, Rabbit ruminates, ""I know it's happened, but I don't feel anything yet."" The monumental space race defined a generation, spurring imaginations to move beyond the previous boundaries of reality into an unknown. But how do we define and categorize such an accomplishment in human terms?

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