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The gift shop at the 9/11 Museum
It has been said that America is exceptional. It is: It's exceptionally disrespectful. The 9/11 Memorial Museum, including its store, should never have been built.
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Composing shortcuts
How do you write down an idea that can't be put into words?
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Gauguin: Metamorphoses at MoMA
Inventing the gods
Gauguin is refreshed in a large show that emphasizes the graphic and sculptural activity of his South Sea years.
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On playing the music of dead white males
I perform music by living composers on an ongoing basis, but I'd be very sad if I had to completely give up the dead ones.
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The Fall 2014 TV season
Geek Wonderland
As a lifelong geek, I consider this to be the Golden Age of television. Of all the choices on TV (and let’s face it, there are a lot of choices), geek programs as a rule have a higher level of writing and production values than your average cop show or prime-time soap opera.
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Musée de l'Orangerie and the Barnes Foundation
A tale of two museums
There are a variety of similarities, and differences, between Paul Guillaume and Albert Barnes, and between the museums housing their respective collections.
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Erin Colleen Johnson's 'Hole' at Vox Populi
The story of stories
Emerging artist Erin Colleen Johnson’s first exhibition in Philadelphia is a seemingly simple investigation that exposes the complexities of communication.
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David Rudkin’s 'The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock'
An exploration of a haunted mind
Playwright David Rudkin's lifelong fascination with Alfred Hitchcock is transformed into a biographical black comedy that explores the sources of the master's macabre creations.
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Three things I learned from Verdi
Whatever we believe the function of art to be, it can’t fulfill it until it entertains us.
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Piffaro at Eastern State Penitentiary
The Tudors drop in at Eastern State
Piffaro brought the ghosts of Newgate and the Tower of London to Eastern State Penitentiary — a timeless setting with acoustics that brought out the best in Piffaro’s instruments.
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