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Salman Toor: There’s a boy I know January 9, 2021 12:52 pm Salman Toor, The Star, 2019 By Laurie Fendrich / Critics have been lavish in their praise of the Brown, queer-themed figurative paintings by the Pakistani-born Brooklyn artist Salman Toor, currently on view in the Whitney Museum’s first-floor lobby gallery (free of charge to the public). And rightly so. Toor’s pictures touch the heart, and his audacious drawing and sensitive paint handling satisfy our aesthetic longings. Salman Toor, Man with Face Creams and Phone Plug, 2019 Curated by Chris...

You have to have good policy. you can have empathy for that group of people, but the policies you make for that group of people don't actually make them better. >> let me take that one step further, and listen to marco rubio talking about poverty, in which he suggests, i do have empathy for poverty, but when i hear the policy proposals, they don't sound to me like good proposals. let's listen. >> for me, this issue is deeply personal. i'm a generation removed from poverty and despair. with where i would be today if there had never been an american? what kind of lives tor futures would my child...

So they saved as much as they could and they boarded a airplane to miami and came to america in search of a better life. now like most recent arrivals, life in america wasn't easy. my father had someone phonetically write the words "i am looking for work". those were the first words he learned to speak in english. he took day jobs and my dad worked as a bar boy on the beach. he saved money and tried to open up some businesses and when they didn't work they tried los angeles and vegas and he found himself back on miami beach behind a bar. the truth is they were discouraged and home him for cuba...