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For the sake of a single verse…. Artist: Ben Shahn. Medium: lithograph.

For the sake of a single verse…

Ben Shahn

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Purchase, through gift of the Wisconsin State Journal

© Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

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Wisconsin Book Festival Lectures

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Drink and Draw

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MMoCA Cinema • Wild Inside

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Downtown Madison Family Halloween

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Halloween Drag Show and Costume Party Thursday, October 29 • 6–8 PM • Museum Lobby • Free Admission • 21+.

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MMoCA Cinema • Kwaidan

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Gallery Night, November 6 | 5–9 PM.

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Katherine Steichen Rosing Talk

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