[applause] is there a Nonfiction Author of book you would like to see is featured to max and an email treat us post on our wall. The state of the american meatpacking industry next on. An indepth an indepth look at the production of its most popular product. This is about an hour and a half. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming. It is a major breach of etiquette to have an event at 1215 without serving lunch but i guarantee in about 20 minutes no one will have an appetite, that is for sure. We will lose our appetites for good cause today. My name is chris leonard. Of book called the meat racket which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like, the story of how few companies to control of our Meat Industry. As a journalist who journalist who has written about the meat business for a long time i am excited to have our guest year today the author and journalist. I followed his work for a long time. He has done a number of really important and revelatory articles about the Meat Industry th
Sometimes, it’s having something to look forward to that can pull you through the gloom when spring’s warmth and light still feel like a distant oasis.
What is it like to be “of one’s time” and not? Leon Polk Smith was a prime progenitor of American hard-edged abstraction whose non-objective pedigree as a protégé of the painter and philanthropist Hilla Rebay, and subsequent track record of showing in the Betty Parsons and Egan Gallery early on, puts him squarely in the pocket of post-war American art ascendancy yet his legacy has subsequently remained a relatively independent part of that particular epic.