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"Becky Shaw' at the Wilma (2nd review)
Adults behaving like children, or: What would Oscar Wilde say?
If nothing else, Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw demonstrates why a universal health care system shouldn't include free therapy— at least not for over-educated, uber-sensitive white people who've never faced a real problem in their lives and generate little in the way of taxable income.
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Supersized drawings at Gallery Joe
Bring on the behemoths
So you think of drawings as small, quiet and intimate? In this show they speak in a big, bold contemporary voice.
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The "death' of conceptual art
Is it art, or is it cost-efficient? My problem with conceptual art
Far from dying, conceptual art has become mainstream in the art world. And that's the problem: We've become inured to art that intends to shock. Thank goodness the once "academic" concerns of craftsmanship are again in vogue.
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Bruce Nauman's "Notations' at the Art Museum (2nd review)
The sensual pleasure of sound
Philadelphia's art critics and Art Museum guards sneer at Bruce Nauman's sound installations, but to Dan Coren they evoke the hip, modern sounds of beautiful music and cocktail conversation.
"Tales of Hoffman' at the Met
Play it again, Jacques
Nit-picking critics have jumped on the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Tales of Hoffman for using a “discredited” version of the Offenbach score. A more valid criticism is the treatment of the opera's central character, which is key to our understanding of the composer himself.
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"Becky Shaw' at the Wilma (1st review)
House of mirrors
This remarkably intelligent and moving play can't easily be pigeonholed as either a wicked comedy or a devastating psychodrama. Gina Gionfriddo's concern is the process by which human relationships change people for better or worse. Whether that makes you laugh or cry depends on your individual circumstances at a given moment.
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New Acropolis Museum in Athens
Disaster on the Acropolis
The new Acropolis Museum in Athens now houses, in addition to the artifacts of the old one, the marbles and statuary removed from the Parthenon to save them from the city's pollution. Unfortunately, the whole museum is a dud, and the tendentious display of the marbles only caps the fiasco.
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Dancing for his life in Rwanda
Rwanda's dancing orphans— the sequel: One boy who fell through the cracks
Eighteen months ago I had the rare privilege of teaching dance to a unique group of orphans victimized by the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. When I returned last month I discovered that the sponsoring group has folded, the safe house is gone, and these kids are back on the streets of Kigali. The solution to their problem is costly by African standards— and piddling by ours.
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David Owen's "Green Metropolis'
Do fence me in
A Connecticut suburbanite extols the environmental virtues of dense big cities.
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Bruce Nauman's "Notations' at the Art Museum (1st review)
Sound and fury: Bruce Nauman, recycled
Conceptual artist's Bruce Nauman's award-winning exhibition at last summer's Biennale in Venice has been drastically edited to focus only on Nauman's insights into the relationship between sound and the visual arts. The effect is overwhelming, but also been there-done that.
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