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Postmodernism would love nothing more than to drag visual art out of its gated museums and expensive galleries and make it as accessible as film or music. How delightfully egalitarian it would be to toss out the terminology and just let everyone check out some art. Postmodernism itself actually has a little trouble crusading for this sort of change since it is but a theory. But Andy Friedman is a real, live person and he is taking up the cause as his own. The "Americana Slideshow Poet" connects projections of his understated drawings and baleful photographs of America with a series of extemporaneous rambles. He told the BBC he wanted to bring out the "smoky, soulful" side of art. The smoky part could be a little tricky in Portland, but the soul should be in full display at SPACE, 538 Congress Street at 8p.m. And unlike some high-falootin' painting, it will only cost $5.