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Gallery gazing: Three spring shows
Works in progress, like life itself
Philadelphia's art galleries, like spring bulbs and cherry trees, have suddenly burst into bloom. Here are three current exhibitions worth a visit.
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Cate Shortland's 'Lore': Germany, year zero
Postwar Germany as a Grimm's fairy tale
Cate Shortland's Lore deals with a moment that Germany— and modern Europe generally— would prefer to forget: the immediate aftermath of the Nazi collapse. Its heroine is a 14-year-old girl who must lead her four younger siblings to safety in a world where rules have ceased to exist.
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Roosevelt's Hyde Park hideaway
FDR's getaway, and mine
Imagine my surprise upon finding that FDR's hideaway— where the president hosted the British royal couple in 1939— shared much in common with my own middle-class childhood Philadelphia home.
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"The Revisionist' in New York
Vanessa in the Village
Just when you thought Vanessa Redgrave had done it all, she turns up in a 200-seat West Village theater, playing a septuagenarian Holocaust survivor from Szczecin, Poland. Needless to add, the part— as well as the intimate venue— fits her like a glove.
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Philip Guston's centennial, in New York
Ladders that reach toward nowhere: Philip Guston, America's 20th-Century Goya
Philip Guston (1913-1980) remains for many a perplexing and controversial painter, who made his reputation as one of the foremost Abstract Expressionists of the New York School and then created a riddling, neo-figurative world in his final decade in which nothing was as it seemed. In many ways, he saved the best for last.
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MOVE: A documentary film, at last
The city that bombed itself, and then suffered amnesia
MOVE. A documentary film directed by Ben Garry, Ryan McKenna, and Matt Sullivan. Screened March 25, 2013 at Earle Mack School of Law, Drexel University.
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Chamber Orchestra's "Fall of the Berlin Wall'
Another rebirth of freedom
The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts commemorated a major 20th Century event with the right music conducted by the right conductor.
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Barnes and Reisman at Gross McCleaf
If Emily Dickinson could paint
Victoria Barnes's works are small, playful oils that could illustrate a book of fables. Celia Reisman's world exists in that perpetual state of suspended animation between dreams and waking.
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Bach's Passions, two ways (3rd review)
Ethereal music, disturbing words
Until a few decades ago, audiences who weren't German were not cognizant of the words in Bach's Passions. Now, with projected translations, audience members notice, and some of them are disturbed— and rightly so.
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Mary Roach cruises the alimentary canal
There's something about Mary
Mary Roach is to writers what the Mütter Museum is to museums. She joyfully mines human taboos, from human cadavers to feces to the alimentary canal, and consequently seems to have cornered a lucrative market.
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