Editor,
Reading this piece this morning, I was struck by a few things missing from the background of "For Handel" sculptor Mark di Suvero (CDN, Feb. 18, 2024).
He was born to two Sephardic Jews and was indeed Jewish — worth noting given Western Washington University's issues with Jews [incidents of antisemitism on campus] and Bellingham's "unfriendly" history regarding minorities.
Continuing to defy the binaries, he was also Italian (born Marco Polo, not Mark), born in China, yet quin
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