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Tony Auth, survivor
One political cartoon is worth….
In his 40 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Tony Auth convinced me that the maturing of the editorial cartoon in America is a sine qua non if we’re ever to mature as a civilized society.
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‘Jason Rhoades, Four Roads’ at the ICA
Clean up this mess and go to your room
The late contemporary artist Jason Rhoades comes across here as a very young man— the creative type who takes over his family’s garage and basement with various projects, then goes off to college leaving behind all his unfinished explorations into the meaning of life for his parents to clean up.
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Donizetti’s ‘Elixir of Love’ in Wilmington
An old-fashioned Elixir
Some directors distort Donizetti’s Elixir of Love. OperaDelaware’s decidedly old-fashioned approach was like a refreshing splash of water.
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One week, three concerts
If Mozart and Beethoven were here today….
Last week, I attended three concerts that offered a glimpse of the range of emotional, aesthetic and intellectual experiences that music offers to those of us who attend concerts as frequently as other people attend plays and movies.
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Diego Rivera's ghost in Detroit
Where art and ideology meet: Can a dead Communist artist save Detroit?
The city of Detroit may be broke, but the Detroit Institute of Arts owns $2 billion worth of art works. Its most valued pieces, by the Communist Diego Rivera, portray heroic workers triumphing over stoic managers. In the best capitalist tradition, Rivera’s frescoes are now being held hostage by a pair of union-busting Republican politicians.
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Royal National Theatre’s new ‘Othello’
Iraq and Afghanistan, anyone? Or: Othello, Iago and the culture of war
Nicholas Hytner’s new London production of Othello resonates richly in new ideas and insights into Shakespeare’s tragedy. Here the intriguing emphasis is on what military culture does to men and women alike.
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Richard Curtis’s 'About Time'
Four weddings and a waste of time
For a refreshing change, the recently concluded New York Film Festival offered more lighthearted cinema this year. But Richard Curtis’s About Time is downright scatterbrained.
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Orchestra plays Shostakovich (1st review)
Fifty years of horror
If the Shostakovich Eleventh is performed with the right sensitivity and conviction, it’s no mere evocation of tragic events, but a lament for the human tragedy itself. Guest conductor Semyon Bychkov’s performance emphasized the tapestry-like elements of the score at the expense of some of the drama.
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Pulitzer photos at National Constitution Center
What we had, and what we’re losing
The shared cultural memory produced by a great still photo can help to mold a nation’s character and identity. But gone are the days when virtually the whole nation would see images captured by Associated Press photographers and printed in newspapers across the country.
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‘Bunny Bunny’: The real Gilda Radner (2nd review)
Gilda Radner confronts the darkness
In Bunny Bunny, Alan Zweibel has written a love poem about his allegedly unconsummated love for Gilda Radner. The title is an incantation that the TV comedienne recited as a child to protect her from the dark. The play tries to protect the audience in much the same way.
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