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Part of the distance between intellectuals and Italian Zeitgeist, according to Pertile, was the fault of Italy’s cultural and linguist fragmentation. “In 1930, most Italians did not speak Italian,” but rather conversed in mutually unintelligible dialects. Still fewer could actually read. As a result, Italian fascists had little trouble keeping the nation’s arts and literature in check, devoting far more effort to censoring news reports on suicides—or even reports of bad weather—because of their adverse affects on morale. “Literature...
...verge of securing its nonprofit status, the Zeitgeist has been through two previous locations; a fire in its previous Kendall Square digs (which its press materials call a meeting with “the forces of entropy”) caused a 2002 move to its current Inman Square location...
...most exciting aspect of the Zeitgeist is its anarchic attitude, which extends well beyond the walls of the gallery...
Nidle and his cohorts are known almost as much for their public stunts as they are for the Zeitgeist. They’ve led a group of people dressed as corpses from the gallery to the front of City Hall, protesting Cambridge’s reluctance to remove deceased voters from the rolls so that it could thwart a proposed rent-control ordinance. They’ve held a massive monopoly game to protest local gentrification...
...Zeitgeist Gallery is a 15-minute walk from Harvard Square down Cambridge Street, which runs between Annenberg and the Sackler Museum. Given the walkability of its location, the cheapness of its entry price, and the range of performances it offers, you have no excuse...