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There’s no going back to the way the world was before November, 2016. No matter how wistfully middle-class liberals yearn for that time, when daily life seemed a lot gentler and comfier at its surface levels, it’s unlikely to be magically restored at the end of the current regime. “If we survive,” wrote nonfiction writer, journalist, activist and AIDS historian Sarah Schulman in a recent social media post, “we’ll come out the other end into a new and unknown future.”

This realization is becoming increasingly familiar to the numerous actors grappling for American power a year after Inauguration Day. But it's seeping into cultural life too. At the 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, the populist exhibition within one of the foremost institutions of culture in one of New England’s most progressive cities, the way of doing things has been given a necessary correction.

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Angela Dufresne
Elizabeth Tubergen

2017
Oil on canvas
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Angela Dufresne
Torkwase Dyson

2017
Oil on canvas
5.5 x 7.5 feet
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Séan Alonzo Harris 

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