All art is political, but it doesn’t have to be

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Everything, we’re told, is political.

Food is political, according to the late, great Anthony Bourdain, who said, in the words of the New Yorker, that ingredients “tell a story of migration and conquest.” Altruism is political, too. At this year’s People’s Choice Awards, singer Pink announced, “Kindness today is an act of rebellion.”

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