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‘Surrealists’ at the Art Museum (2nd review)
They took dreams seriously (and Freud, too)
Contrary to popular belief, Surrealists rarely let it all hang out in impulsive acts of creation. On the contrary, as the Art Museum’s current show demonstrates, they consciously utilized images and mythology in very calculated ways to create dramatic effects that reshaped modern thought.
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Searching for Grace Kelly at the Michener Museum
Will the real Grace Kelly please stand up?
An exhibit that promises to reveal the real Grace Kelly does little more than cater to her gorgeous myth.
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Choral Arts celebrates Britten’s 100th
The people's composer
Benjamin Britten cherished the amateur choral and instrumental groups that play an important role in British social life. Choral Arts celebrated his 100th birthday with a concert that captured that spirit.
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Joe Sacco’s ‘The Great War’
The face of war, seen from the trenches
The Great War is actually a 24- foot drawing, divided into 24 narrative panels, each crammed with mind-boggling detail. For Americans it’s a devastating reminder of what this war meant to England and, by extension, Europe.
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Between composers and musicians
It’s all in the timing
A while back, some composers began writing exact durations, in seconds, over their musical notations. But timing is what musicians do. Take that away from them and you take the music away from them.
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Koresh Dance Company’s season opener
Intense, highly rhythmic and strangely engrossing
I’d known of the Koresh Dance Company, but until last weekend I’d had no exposure to its work. I came away from its seasonal opening boggled and bedazzled by what I’m prepared to call a major work.
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Léger’s ‘Ballet Mécanique’ at Art Museum
Léger and Antheil, together at last
Fernand Léger’s experimental 1924 film was too short for Georges Antheil’s avant-garde musical score. Now the two have been joined together at last, to visually stunning and aurally exciting effect.
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Margaret MacMillan’s ‘Dangerous Games'
What historians (and politicians) don't know
The past shapes the present in ways we ignore at our peril. It’s even more dangerous to misread it, though, as Margaret MacMillan points out in her new book. But many would-be historians are tempted by folly and ambition to try.
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Was Vermeer’s ‘Young Woman’ a genuine Vermeer?
Can genius be counterfeited?
The great Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer died in poverty, leaving 11 children. Did some imitator touch up that painting at the Art Museum to help his widow settle her debts? Now you too can play art detective.
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Bruce Norris’s ‘Domesticated’ in New York
Pity the poor philandering husband
Using Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Wiener as his prototypes, Bruce Norris’s blistering black comedy tells the story of a politician caught in a humiliating public sex scandal and beset by angry women. If only the protagonist’s anguished cry sounded more like his own and less like Philip Roth’s or Woody Allen’s.
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