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Jeff McMahon

Jeff McMahon is a writer whose performance work has received numerous fellowships from the National Endowment on the Arts. His work has been published in Threepenny Review, the New England Review, TDR/The Drama Review, PAJ/Performing Arts Journal and elsewhere. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University.

Fall 2013

Taking Pictures

By Jeff McMahon

In a recent debate regarding arts funding, presented by New Dramatists in New York and organized by the playwright J.T. Rogers, economist Eric Helland noted that on a recent visit to MOMA he realized something startling; people were there to take pictures, not look at them.