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Audiences behaving badly
A comedy of manners
Where is Emily Post when we need her? There’s a crisis in the theater — and it’s not on the stage.
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Cordelia Biddle’s ‘Saint Katharine’
Who was Katharine Drexel?
Katharine Drexel’s canonization in 2000 has galvanized the faithful but complicated the search for the real woman. It’s tough to write objectively about a saint, especially when the market demands genuflection.
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Horace Pippin: The Way I See It at Brandywine River Museum
An authentic artist
With fans like N.C. Wyeth and Albert Barnes, West Chester native Horace Pippin was clearly more than just a folk artist.
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‘The Bachelorette’
Is it love, or is it emotional abuse?
How do we tell the difference between love and emotional abuse? The dividing line is not always clear, as exemplified by the relationship between Kaitlyn and her suitors on this season of The Bachelorette.
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Considering Robert Frank
Robert Frank finishes first and last
Unlike earlier “street photographers” like Cartier-Bresson or “documentarians” like Walker Evans, Frank was not interested in order, structure, decisiveness, or public policy. Rather, Frank’s was a gruff, sharp-eyed and -tongued look at the underbelly of American society.
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The Coen brothers and black cloud movies
Why are we laughing?
Though the Coen brothers didn’t invent the movie genre in which misfortune after misfortune is visited on the protagonist, they have certainly cornered the market.
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'Adventures in Photography' and 'Take One' at PMA
From snapshots to art
Two complementary exhibits at the Philadelphia Museum of Art provide a brief tutorial on the evolution of picture-taking.
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George Pelecanos’s 'Martini Shot'
Evenhanded complexity
George Pelecanos has the ability to make us care about people in the humblest walks of life, including those on criminal paths, through dialogue that sounds like real people talking.
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Silvana Cardell's 'Supper, People on the Move'
Empathy for émigrés and exiles
Supper, People on the Move is a thoughtful, important work for not only its serious exploration of the immigrant experience, but also as a powerful example of dance as a mode for social history and political advocacy. With effortless shifts between moods and movement styles, Supper reflects the desperation, precariousness, and turmoil of immigrant life.
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'Jurassic World'
Nostalgiasaurus rex
In the end, T-Rex doesn’t lose its monster status because of our blasé 21st-century attitude to computer-generated beasts; it becomes a bona fide character through our own nostalgia for its original film incarnation and its evolving role in the action.
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