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On surviving the Barnes Foundation uproar
A survivor's saga: Growing up and moving on with the Barnes Collection
What was the Barnes Foundation experience really like for an immigrant art lover? How has it changed now that the collection has moved downtown? The founder of Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery recalls her frustrations with the old Barnes galleries and her exhilaration with the new.
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"Renaissance Venice' at the Morgan in New York
Where would we be without Venice?
The Morgan Library's “Renaissance Venice” provides a rich portrait of the city-state that was also a major Mediterranean empire, and the bridge between the ancient and modern republican traditions.
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"Other Desert Cities' and "My Children! My Africa!'
Political protest and its unintended consequences
In two powerful plays about political protest— in the Vietnam-era U.S. and apartheid South Africa— everyone pays a price for discord between the generations.
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"Visions of Arcadia' at the Art Museum (2nd review)
Good wine, good sex... and death
Why would three of the most radical artists of their time turn to Arcadia as the subject for their largest and most ambitious paintings?
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Nicholas Serota, the Tate's dubious wunderkind
Dostoyevsky would love this guy
Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, attracts record crowds and brings youthful excitement to London's art scene. Well, yes. But is Serota a museum director or a carnival barker?
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Stokowski's lesson: Develop local talent
One more lesson Yannick can learn from Stokowski
The Philadelphia Orchestra began as an ensemble consisting of European immigrant musicians. Stokowski, Ormandy and Mary Louise Curtis Bok nurtured the infrastructure for developing homegrown talent and audiences. Boston and Los Angeles have learned that lesson; why not Philadelphia, where the idea first took root?
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A life lesson from Ray Bradbury (3rd tribute)
The novelist who loved theater: How Ray Bradbury changed my life
The late author Ray Bradbury— best known for his novels, children's books and TV scripts— appreciated above all the irreplaceable value of live theater. A chance meeting more than 20 years ago led to a lifelong friendship that inspired me to launch and nurture my own theater company.
Thomas Frank's "Pity the Billionaire'
Herbert Hoover or FDR? Playing the hindsight game with Obama
Thomas Frank's new book seeks to explain the resurgence of the Republican Party over the past four years in terms of the Tea Party phenomenon and its shrewd exploitation by Republican strategists. He is far less persuasive in accounting for the dissipation of the once-in-a-generation mandate Democrats seemed to have won in 2008.
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What I learned from whale watching
Captain Ahab, meet Charlie Manuel: Lessons of a novice whale-watcher
What do composers and conductors share in common with sea captains, farmers and Major League baseball managers? As I learned on my first whale-watching expedition, it‘s a certain fixity in the eyes that enables you to see things no one else ever noticed before.
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Concert Operetta does Victor Herbert
Grownups in Herbert-land
Lasting romantic love, Victor Herbert-style, may be a delusion. But it's a more useful delusion than many of the fantasies peddled by the arts these days.
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