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Royal Shakespeare Company's New York summer of discontent

by Jason Farago

New York went weak at the knees for the RSC before it arrived but its season has so far missed the markNew York is living through a moment of cultural reckoning. The American Folk Art Museum, the preeminent gallery for outsider art, has just shut its doors for good, saddled with millions of dollars in debt. The New York City Opera, which in its heyday mounted 20 productions a season at Lincoln Center, can no longer p…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:39am on July 20, 2011