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Avis Berman

About author: Avis Berman is a writer and art historian. She directs the oral history project of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

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THE FEED: JULY 29THPortion size at the Last Supper, the badassness of Helen Mirren, and other articles we're reading...
TEA WITH JULIAN ASSANGEThe notoriously elusive founder of Wikileaks seems noble, but perhaps also naive...
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