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Exploitation and social activism in modern art
Making art out of other people's problems
Trained in both art and social work, Treacy Ziegler unpacks some of the complicated issues around art, exploitation, and social activism.
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Todd Haynes's 'Carol'
Loved Carol, not Carol
Cate Blanchett fans will enjoy this vehicle, but Carol's engine misfires too often. Cate’s glowing character may be a lonely store clerk’s fantasy, but how might she have been treated in real life?
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Tom McCarthy’s ‘Spotlight’ (second review)
Journalism’s rise and fall
Journalism was once a refuge for adventurers and drunks. Today, at its best, it’s become a moral role model even for the Vatican, as Spotlight compellingly demonstrates. But this is no time for self-congratulation.
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Meet Jeanne Krausman
A long musical life
She gave herself a “musical Bat Mitzvah” at 83, followed, at 85, by seven consecutive daily performances of a short living room recital. Jeanne Krausman was preparing for her final concert, at 89, when fate intervened.
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Three things I learned from David Bowie
Kile Smith accepts David Bowie's "serious moonlight" invitation.
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Pierre Boulez: An appreciation
Boulez est mort
Boulez infamously declared, in 1952, that “any musician who has not experienced — I do not say understood, but truly experienced — the necessity of dodecaphonic music is useless.” I have always relished his gleeful courage, his delight in the new, his call to push boundaries outward as a kind of artistic imperative.
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Bartlett Sher's 'Fiddler on the Roof' on Broadway
Tevye returns
Bartlett Sher’s luminous new production of Fiddler on the Roof brings a special grace and a haunting context to this Broadway classic.
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Michael Ogborn's 'Three Maries'
A new homegrown musical
A new musical by a hot local talent celebrates Philadelphia's lovable clichés.
Mark Coftaand Illustration by Mike Jackson
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Paul Grand: Beyond the Surface at the Michener Museum
Grand's illusions
“I’m not the first photographer to shoot walls, but I may be the only one who concentrates on peeling walls,” Paul Grand said. He discovers great beauty in what most people would overlook.
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Natalie Cole: An appreciation
What set Natalie Cole apart from the other popsters trying to make like Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett was her depth, her sincerity, and her understanding of the lyric and where it came from — all of which came, in part, from her father’s example.
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