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Larry Wilson: 'Skin' is in within our city

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From: Pasadena Star-News
Date: 20070816
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Remember Pasadena's Radical Past?

No, not the years limousine socialists like Upton Sinclair and Kate Crane-Gartz - oh, to be a plumbing heiress! - held forth in South Orange Grove parlors.

I mean the wonderful arts festival Jay Belloli and Steve Nowlin cooked up in 1999 celebrating the good old years when greats like Judy Chicago and Bruce Nauman created in cheap studios here and the Pasadena Art Museum brought the Duchamps and the Warhols of the world here for openings.

That festival wasn't a one-off. It was followed by The Universe in 2001 and The Tender Land in 2004.

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