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The Chamber Orchestra features Edward Schultz
Fifteen strings and one lone flute
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia presented a smorgasbord of string orchestra music and, in the process, bestowed some well-deserved recognition on one of the mainstays of the Philadelphia music scene, flutist Edward Schultz.
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Has beauty been usurped in contemporary art?
Expelling the beautiful
It’s understandable that beauty has been discouraged in art school. Traditionally, it has been codified, held to a standard. What would happen if beauty were unleashed?
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Kim Davies's ‘Smoke’ at Theatre Exile (first review)
You get to choose what happens to you
Kim Davies's Smoke challenges audiences to see disturbing sex — and, perhaps, to see beyond it.
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Paul Cleave’s ‘Trust No One’
Narrative manipulation as madness
In Trust No One, Paul Cleave moves into interesting territory that involves unfair terrain for the reader, with contradictory versions of the protagonist's interior monologue.
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Fresh Artists hosts the first Cool Jobs Expo
Middle-schoolers meet the creative economy
Fresh Artists, which supports art education in underfunded schools, held a job expo that introduced middle-schoolers to artists working in a variety of mediums.
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Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s 'Black Male Revisited'
The body as resistance and protest
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s Black Male Revisited is a riveting multimedia presentation that encourages us to question “self” as we navigate a not-so-post–racial world.
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John Logan's 'Red' at the Walnut Street Theatre
A lesson in how to look at art
Is red a color, is it a feeling? John Logan’s Red challenges us to go deeper into what it means to really look at art for both the artist and the audience.
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Picasso: The Great War at the Barnes Foundation
Thinking outside the cubist box
This new exhibit at the Barnes explodes the conventional notion that Picasso’s career was divided into distinct periods. He seemed to abandon cubism during World War I, but actually he returned to it repeatedly.
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Fox TV's 'Lucifer'
Redeeming the ultimate bad boy
Lucifer is showing promise of something more sophisticated than a simple good vs. evil story set in a flashy fantasy environment. We are seeing a story unfold that questions the very nature of good and evil, and the proper place of both in today’s world.
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Clara Brennan's 'Spine' by Inis Nua
Celebrating libraries and storytelling
Clara Brennan's Spine, one of those wonderful U.K. fictional monologues, captivates with an unlikely and inspirational tale.
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