Is it ever OK to use an ethnic, religious or racial slur in the course of making contemporary art?
That depends.
Recently, I settled in for Season 2 of "The Bear," Christopher Storer's absolutely riveting show about a fictional chef named Carmy Berzatto, played by Jeremy Allen White, who is struggling to turn his late brother's Chicago sandwich shop into the kind of establishment that befits his talents as a James Beard Award-winning chef.
