The Beige Book November 2025

 

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The Beige Book, published eight times per year, gathers anecdotal information from each Federal Reserve Bank on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources.

The 12 Reserve Banks represent different geographic regions, or districts, and provide a wealth of information on conditions across the nation.

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Eric Fischl: Stories Told brings together large-scale paintings that explore the myths of middle-class suburban America

Art Exhibitions Eric Fischl: Stories Told 

 

Eric Fischl: Stories Told brings together 40 large-scale works showcasing Fischl’s mastery of the human form within middle-class America.

Don’t miss the premiere of this exhibition in the city where his career began.

On view now, exclusively at Phoenix Art Museum.

Special-Engagement Exhibition

Eric Fischl: Stories Told

November 7, 2025 - June 14, 2026 Located in Steele Gallery

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Eric Fischl: Stories Told brings together 40 large-scale works by the renowned figurative painter. Born in 1948, Eric Fischl grew up in Long Island, New York, and Phoenix, Arizona, where he attended Phoenix College and Arizona State University in the late 1960s. After studying under contemporary landscape painter Merrill Mahaffey, Fischl received his B.F.A. in 1972 as part of the first graduating class at the California Institute for the Arts (CalArts). During a time when new art forms and ideas reigned at CalArts, Fischl largely had to teach himself to paint in the traditional manner, studying early modern artists like Manet and Degas. Working with figurative painting and narrative content in the late 1970s, when it was decidedly out of favor in the art world, Fischl made his subject what he knew best: memories of suburban life and the nuclear family of his childhood.

Stories Told features work from the late 1970s to today, illuminating Fischl’s continued exploration of the human figure in fraught, ambiguous moments where social taboos, anxieties, family secrets, masculinity, unacknowledged privilege, the collision of the public and the private, and more bubble just below the surface. In addition to his international reputation, Fischl has made a profound impact on the Phoenix arts scene through longtime mentorship and philanthropic endeavors at Phoenix College, making this survey of his signature works a homecoming of sorts.

Eric Fischl, Barbeque, 1982. Oil on canvas. 65 x 100 in. Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield. Image courtesy of the artist. © 2025 Eric Fischl

Eric Fischl, Oct 7: Heading Out, 2023. Acrylic on linen. 62 x 72 in. Private Collection. Image courtesy of the artist. © 2025 Eric Fischl

Header: Eric Fischl, Scenes from Late Paradise: Stupidity, 2007. Oil on linen. 84 × 108 in. Hall Art Foundation. Image courtesy of the artist. © 2025 Eric Fischl

EXHIBITION SPONSORS

Eric Fischl: Stories Told is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and guest-curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry, Curator Emeritus at the Arizona State University Art Museum and faculty associate in the ASU School of Art’s Museum Studies program.

The exhibition is presented by the Men’s Arts Council, with leadership support from Margaret T. Morris Foundation, and Steven Martin and Anne Stringfield.

Major support provided by Michael and Nancy Gifford, James and Janet Dicke, Bruce and Suzie Kovner, and DL Withers Foundation.

Additional support is provided by Rafael Jablonka, Erica Samuels, and Skarstedt Gallery.

In-kind support provided by Kimpton Hotel Palomar Phoenix.

Contemporary art exhibitions and projects are made possible in part by the Rob Walton, Jordan Rose, and Rose Law Group Fund for Contemporary Art. 

All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation, with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

Leadership support for the exhibition publication, Eric Fischl: Late America, is provided by Skarstedt Gallery.

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On the West End of Wall Street Trinity Church Feeds New York's Hungry | The Guardian

Trinity’s strength lies in being both a direct service provider and a funder of other charities, a versatility that allows the organization to address a wide range of needs. 

• Trinity spent $1.6m to provide 2.5m meals in 2024, and $3.3m has been spent to provide 5m meals in 2025 so far.

Inside the church’s Compassion Market, things move quickly. Volunteers push carts, restock shelves and greet families in multiple languages.As the wind chill dropped temperatures further and the line outside still stretched on, people were continuously filed in a practiced efficiency. 

• With the December holiday season quickly approaching, the work isn’t going to slow down.

“That’s what we’re here for,” Cordero said. “To give folks what they need that they aren’t getting elsewhere.”

Bread, diapers and hope: How Trinity Church feeds New York’s hungry

Marina Dunbar and Maya Yang in New York

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Trinity church in New York, 25 November 2025, had to later devise a new way to line visitors outside due to surging demand.

Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian

 

U.S. families queue for groceries, hot meals and baby supplies as demand at Trinity’s Compassion Market soars

On a chilly morning in Lower Manhattan this month, the line outside Trinity Commons, a modern extension of New York’s historic Trinity church, stretched on past the end of the block.

Hundreds of people were standing in the 44F cold, many with young children, waiting to get their turn for the Compassion Market food bank.

“It’s all the way down the block today,” said Vidia Cordero, the church’s deputy chief community impact officer. 

• The bank had been open less than an hour and they had “already had 250 or so inside”.

In total, the famous church on Broadway saw more than 1,000 people the previous week on Tuesday and Thursday alone, the days on which the food bank is open. The immense number of people in need has now become the new normal.

Cordero described a staggering growth in the number of visitors since the federal government began withholding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) benefits as part of the recent, record-long government shutdown.  

• But the increase in hunger began well before that, with food prices going up steadily since the start of the year as the burden of Donald Trump’s tariffs andstubborn inflation have been felt across the U.S.

An October study from S&P Global revealed that companies were expected to pay at least $1.2tn more in 2025 expenses than was previously anticipated. But the burden, according to the researchers, is now shifting to US consumers. They calculated that two-thirds of the “expense shock”, more than $900bn, will be absorbed by Americans. Last month, the Yale Budget Lab estimated tariffs would cost households almost $2,400 more a year. 

• As further evidence of the affordability crisis, the average cost of groceries for a family of four in the US has climbed to a record $1,030 per month, according to the Kobeissi Letter. 
• This marks an increase of $280 since 2017, when the average family spent $750 a month.

Due to the surge in demand, the church had to come up with a new way to line the visitors up outside. By the end of this particular day, Cordero estimated they would have have served at least 550 people.

The church’s location could not be more of a contrast if it tried. 

• Not only does its gothic revival style architecture stand out among the Manhattan skyscrapers, but the building is quite literally opposite Wall Street.

LINK: Trinity Church Feeds New York's Hungry