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Federica Schiavo Gallery presents Palookaville, Todd Norsten’s latest solo show. The title comes from a quote by Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in the 1954 movie On the Waterfront. Malloy, who’s fighting for the emancipation of the workers, complains about how he got his lousy one-way ticket to Palookaville, the quintessence of misery, where people that work and care end up when the system has used them up. Palookaville is an informal word that started to spread across North America during the Fifties and refers to an imaginary city, home of the mediocre and the incompetent.

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