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Her issues \u2014 globalism, identity, world trade, change in the natural world, the spread of culture, disease, ideas, and money \u2014 are the stuff of each day\u2019s headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately art, when it is good, is not about issues. Instead, it offers visions, ways of looking at the world that reconfigure our thoughts and unleash a flood of feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Thomas Hines, Philly Daily News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.philly.com\/philly\/entertainment\/pafa-pennsylvania-academy-of-the-arts-rina-banerjee-20181101.html?utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_campaign=Daily+News+Twitter+Account&amp;cid=Daily+News+Twitter+Account&amp;utm_medium=social\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pafa.org\/exhibitions\/rina-banerjee-make-me-summary-world\">Rina Banerjee: Make Me A Summary of the World<\/a> is on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts through March 31, 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Future venues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-organizer San Jos\u00e9 Museum of Art, California (May 18 - October 6, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fowler Museum at University of California, Los Angeles (December 8, 2019 - May 31, 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee (July 24 - October 25, 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (February 18 - July 11, 2021)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerica made me great.\u201d So says artist Rina Banerjee, reflecting on her immigrant upbringing in New York and Philadelphia\u2019s Fox Chase neighborhood, in an interview for the catalog of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\u2019 new exhibition, \u201cRina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World.\u201d It is a statement not of egotism, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,25,27,22,23,21,24,26],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-assemblage","tag-museum","tag-pafa","tag-pennsylvaniaacademyoffineart","tag-rinabanerjee","tag-sculpture","tag-womenartist","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Rina Banerjee Reflects on her Immigrant Upbringing - L.A. 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