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Tonight on “All Things Cage” Kuhn talks with Los Angeles and Hudson Valley-based artist Richard Kraft about his new book – or, properly, books – titled It Is What It is: All the Cards Issued to Donald Trump, January 2017-January 2021 (Siglio Press, 2020). By way of introduction to both Kraft and his latest work, Kuhn begins the program by reading Leah Ollman’s excellent review, “A real-time diary that’s a dazzling testament to its subject’s basic incomprehensibility,” which appeared in The Brooklyn Rail‘s Dec. 21-Jan. 22, 2021 issue. Kraft speaks a bit about Cage’s role in the creation of It Is What It Is in his own introduction to the 5-volume slipcase set: having seen/heard an installation of Cage’s Lecture on the Weather with his partner Lisa Pearson, publisher-in-chief of Siglio Press, at the Frith Gallery in London the day after Trump’s election, Kraft felt a most welcome call-to-action that prompted a stunning response. Cage’s “Preface” to Lecture on the Weather is heard at the close of the program.