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...move to the director's chair would pick a modest project, one that doesn't tax his tyro status. But Kaufman's first work as a total auteur is his most daunting project yet: a portrait of a creative mind in artistic and emotional crisis, painted as a vast mural that encompasses 30-plus years, slips from mundane reality into nightmare fantasy, and is set (not counting side trips to Germany) in two New York State river cities 150 miles apart...
...PBHA “did a Day of Service, a university-wide project day with a lot of different projects, including a field day at Mission Hill and river cleanup. When a graduate student council member approached PBHA, they wanted to do those one-day, feel-good, paint-a-mural type projects, and we got back to them and said, ‘That’s not really what we’re about...
...Less time-consuming activities that don’t involve personal relationships—such as the “paint-a-mural type projects” PBHA avoids—can be particularly harmful, Graham says, because of the negative effects of PBHA’s relationship with community leaders...
Next door, Salmar Hussein complains that the CLCs are taking his business. At what first appears to be a travel agency - a desk, a few chairs and a giant mural of a fairy-tale pastoral scene - Hussein runs a real estate business, although he says he hasn't rented or sold a house in four or five years. "The main reason we don't have any business is that the people who come here don't care - they just break the gate and occupy the house. Some people arrange this." He is nervous, afraid to say anything more...
...HAVEN, Conn.—Students glimpse it briefly: the cracked sidewalks and Family Dollar, the mural advertising the pawn shop that accepts gold, electronics—what it takes to make it from one week to the next...