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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.

Tara Lynn Johnson

Articles 3 minute read
Making notes, if not notes. Photo by Audringje, via Flickr/Creative Commons.

Composing shortcuts

How do you write down an idea that can't be put into words?

Michael Lawrence

Articles 2 minute read
Paul Gauguin, "Tahitian Woman with Evil Spirit," c. 1900.

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.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 5 minute read

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.
Maria Thompson Corley

Maria Thompson Corley

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Kicking ass and taking names: Jaimie Alexander in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Photo by Kelsey McNeal - © 2014 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

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.
Gary L. Day

Gary L. Day

Articles 6 minute read

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.
Richard Carreño

Richard Carreño

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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.

Christa DiMarco

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The past casts a long shadow: Martin Miller in David Rudkin’s “The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock.” Photo: Pamela Raith Photography

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.

Carol Rocamora

Articles 5 minute read

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Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi by Giovanni Boldini.

Three things I learned from Verdi

Whatever we believe the function of art to be, it can’t fulfill it until it entertains us.
Kile Smith

Kile Smith

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Montalbano: Salute to a queen.

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.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

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