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A landmark exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum showcases the brilliant watercolors of John Singer Sargent. It’s a rare opportunity to see an abundance of these rich intimate treasures by the 19th-Century master of fashion portraits. “John Singer Sargent Watercolors.” Through July 28, 2013 at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy., Brooklyn, N.Y. (718) 638-5000 or www.brooklynmuseum.org. view full article |
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Music & Opera
The fallacy of ‘The Voice’
What was Mahler thinking? (1st comment)
The great debate: Sackbut or trombone?
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Music & Opera Reviews
Rattle and Hannigan with the Philadelphia Orchestra (3rd review)
Dolce Suono’s Debussy farewell
Philadelphia Orchestra plays Ligeti (2nd review)
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Art & Architecture
Denise Scott Brown, ignored for a Pritzker
The Barnes raises its rates
Who needs architecture school?
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Art & Architecture Reviews
Sargent watercolors at Brooklyn Museum
Serge Zhukov at F.A.N. Gallery
Albrecht Dürer at National Gallery in D.C.
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Theater
‘Macbeth’ in London, violence everywhere
The education of Toby Zinman
Mamet’s ‘The Anarchist’ and its audience
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Theater Reviews
Robert O’Hara’s ‘Bootycandy’ at the Wilma
‘The Assembled Parties’ on Broadway
Philip Dawkins’s ‘Failure: A Love Story’
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Dance
Why I love ‘Dancing with the Stars’
Can dance reach young audiences?
How kids see ‘The Nutcracker’ (3rd helping)
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Dance Reviews
Ira Glass’s ‘One Radio Host, Two Dancers’
Savion Glover’s ‘Dance Space’ at Academy of Music
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet: Doing something right
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Books & Movies
Learning to love ‘The Avengers’
Roosevelt’s Hyde Park hideaway
Mary Roach cruises the alimentary canal
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Book & Movie Reviews
Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’
Mumia again: Stephen Vittoria’s ‘Long Distance Revolutionary’
Mary Sue Welsh’s ‘One Woman in a Hundred’
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Cross-Cultural
Abercrombie’s quest for ‘cool’ customers
Jayson Collins, Jackie Robinson and gay politics
Banality as an art form
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Cross-Cultural Reviews
Hooked on ‘Project Runway’
Behind the scenes at the Penn Museum
HBO’s ‘Girls’: Where feminism failed
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