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    As Shutdown Crawls On, Artists And Nonprofits Fear For Their 'Fragile Industry'

    The partial government shutdown hasn't just shuttered museums in Washington, D.C. Across the U.S., and even beyond its borders, artists and the groups supporting them are grappling with the fallout.
    by Colin Dwyer Jan 09, 2019 4 minutes
    Fifth-grade students perform in a production of Shakespeare's <em>Cymbeline, </em>as part of Theatre for a New Audience's World Theatre Project. Dorothy Ryan, the Brooklyn-based organization's managing director, worries about what the shutdown will do to their funding.

    Jill Rorem, like many Americans, had made some special plans for the holidays. The Chicago native, whose legal work often brings her to Washington, D.C., was finally going to get to see the nation's capital with her arts-obsessed kids.

    "I have very nerdy daughters, and they're super cool. Like, my oldest kid was Andy Warhol for Halloween," Rorem says. So they'd planned a grand tour of the Smithsonian museums, from the National Gallery of Art to the National Portrait Gallery, maybe even the zoo if she could convince her husband. "They would have soaked it up. I always love watching things from my kids' eyes."

    Then, the federal government partially shut down.

    Instead of heading to D.C., where all, her family lost about a thousand dollars rescheduling the trip.

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