Dudamel “rejects calls to make a political statement, saying it would not be in the spirit of El Sistema, a foundation of the government serving more than 500,000 school children and probably its most popular program. It is not a political institution, Dudamel said. It belongs to no one party or group but the entire citizenry, and he said he will do everything in his power to keep it out of politics.”
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Marco Rubio Calls Obama’s Apology For Art History Joke “Pathetic”
The President wrote a personal letter to the professor this week apologizing for his “off-the-cuff remarks” — a mea culpa that Rubio thinks is “pathetic.”
Artist Who Smashed Ai Weiwei Vase: I Didn’t Know It Was 2,000 Years Old!
Maximo Caminero: “If you saw the vases on display and the way they were painted there was no way one would think the artist had painted over an ancient artifact. Instead, I thought it was a common clay pot like you would find at Home Depot, frankly.”
Watch Maximo Caminero Smash Ai Weiwei’s $1M Vase
Oh yes, it was caught on video.