Word: mfa
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...Children's Museum attendance is down almost a third since 1998. The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum has seen admissions decline 15 percent. Even the MFA has lost 8 percent of its yearly visitors...
...MFA relies on its traveling exhibits pique visitors' enthusiasm...
...Last year, we had a blockbuster," says David Strauss, the MFA's public...
...Strauss admits the MFA's attendance drop is probably the result of a comparison with the unnaturally high attendance at the Monet exhibit...
...press stopped publishing in 1976, due in part to a lack of "interesting manuscripts." North, gentle and erudite, partly blames the "fake professionalization of poetry and by the MFA phenomenon" for the shoddy state of contemporary verse. Indeed, Masters programs at prestigious schools (of which Iowa is the most famous) seem increasingly out of touch with the imaginative energy so consistent of underground communities. But today's problems are also economic. When publishing was cheaper, poets could devote their time to the serious business of writing verse-and keep their sense of humor about it. "Now," Fagin laments, "poets...