How come when there’s a parting of the ways among leadership of a cultural organization, everyone wants to pretend nothing happened? “If you’re looking for elitism in the arts, you’ll find it in the way arts organizations want to be perceived as a vital part of our everyday lives yet want to maintain the illusion that they’re something separate from it: separate from politics, from money, from ego, from debate, from change. If they think they can do that forever, they’re kidding themselves – and us.” – Boston Herald