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ARTS REVIEW: THE PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL OF INT'L LITERATUREAuster, Cole, Hirsch, Darwish & Friends Gather To Celebrate Personal & Artistic BraveryThe reading illuminated this year’s PEN theme, bravery in art, in politics, and in our everyday lives. |
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ARTS REVIEW: SUPERMAN AT 75Center For Jewish History Celebrates America's Most Enduring HeroIt was a moment to savor the Man of Steele's longevity and, even more importantly, to proclaim his Jewish heritage. |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'LIGHTHOUSE/LIGHTNING ROD'A Stunning Collaboration Comes Full Circle At The Brooklyn Academy Of Music“What I look for in an artist, in a dancer, in a musician, is invention,” Fagan said. “Wynton plays notes I can’t find anywhere else..." |
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ARTS REVIEW: JIM MARSHALL - 'THE ROLLING STONES AND BEYOND'The Famous Photographer's Sparkling Eye Captures The Icons Of An EraJim Marshall was a “prickly, sparkling individual,” Kasher says, who had a gift for bonding with musicians. “He was a friend with everyone... |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'CHURCHILL - THE POWER OF WORDS'The Morgan Library & Museum Exhibit In NYC Reveals The Man Behind the PoliticianChurchill understood the power of revision and his edits are often substantial – not only subtle changes of words, but revisions of an argument, as well. |
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ARTS REVIEW: BERLINISCHE GALERIE - 'STREETS AND FACES 1919 -1933'Cleverly Curated Collection From Europe's Historic Underbelly...interrupting the zeros are black and white flags and banners, ominous reminders of the price exacted on individuals by dictatorship. |
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ARTS REVIEW: LES LALANNE AT THE PAUL KASMIN GALLERYSculptural and Strange Creatures from the Celebrated French Art DuoI am in the crocodile room at the Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 Tenth Avenue, New York City, working hard to resist sitting down on the Crocodile... |
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LIFESTYLE REVIEW: TRAIL OF THE MAGIC BULLETThe True Story of the Father of Chemotherapy, Inspiration for a Classic FilmIn 1940, Hollywood mogul Hal Wallis produced 'Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet' -- a biopic that starred Edward G. Robinson in the title role of scientist Paul Ehrlich. |
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ARTS REVIEW: WEEGEE - 'MURDER IS MY BUSINESS'Legendary Photographs at the International Center of PhotographyWeegee took...over 1,500 portraits of himself at work, including one peering down at a corpse, an assassination that was the work of the Jewish gang, Murder, Inc... |
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ARTS REVIEW: "THE RADICAL CAMERA: NEW YORK'S PHOTO LEAGUE"Through a Social Lens - Ironic Images from the 1930s Reflect Occupy Wall Street TodayThe exhibit of over 145 vintage photographs has a single subject: the human condition. |
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ARTS REVIEW: "GRAPHIC DETAILS: CONFESSIONAL COMICS BY JEWISH WOMEN"Funny Jewish Female Art on Display at Yeshiva University Museum in NY Through 4/12“Just recently, I put up a comic about my meat-loving husband’s juice cleanse. That did not work out too well!” Lauren Weinstein said. |
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ARTS REVIEW: NATHALIE DJURBERG - 'SNAKES KNOWS IT'S YOGA'Art Show in Copenhagen, Denmark Is Bold & Brilliant, Unsettling & UnnervingThe text contributes to the fear as well. In red block letters, Djurberg has written: YOU MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD ALREADY. |
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ARTS REVIEW: SOL LEWITT AND THE WORKERS AT MASS MOCAA Historic Display of Drawings & Paintings, and a Powerful, Unsettling Message of SocietyIt’s a powerful exhibit -- one that is particularly unsettling for the majority of its viewers visiting MASS MoCA on a New England vacation. |
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ARTS REVIEW: ROB PRUITT'S 'THE ANDY MONUMENT'Andy Warhol in New York City: A Vision in Chrome“Like so many other artists and performers, and people who don’t fit in because they’re gay or otherwise different, Andy moved here to become who he was..." |
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ARTS REVIEW: ALEXANDER MCQUEEN - SAVAGE BEAUTYBritish Fashion Designer Exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Is Weird...and So CoolA model in a white cotton muslin dress is spray-painted black and yellow by two robots. The crowd oohs and ahs in French, Dutch, German, English, Russian, and Hebrew. |
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ARTS REVIEW: LORNA SIMPSONGhostly Photography of Times Past on Display at the Brooklyn Museum in New York“When you tear a photo out, it leaves a ghost behind -- a marker,” said Morris, explaining the inclusion of the gouache images. |
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ARTS GALLERY: 'AI WEIWEI: NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHS 1983-1993'Photography Exhibit Is on View at Asia Society Museum in New York until August 14, 2011The artist selected 227 images for the New York exhibit, from over 10,000 negatives, and arranged them chronologically, with no photo singled out. |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'AI WEIWEI: NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHS 1983-1993'Asia Society's Photography Exhibit in New York is Both Personal & PoliticalBeginning with the photographs of 1986 and 1987, there is a shift from the personal to the public. This was the direct consequence of major changes in the neighborhood. |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD''Uncle Tom’s Cabin' Revisited - The Novel, The Plays, Tomitudes, The MoviesA provocative study that makes it clear that Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom “deserve our reconsideration -- and our respect.” |
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ARTS COLUMN: THE REVEREND BILLY PROJECTNot Just Any Old Release Party at the Housing Works Café and BookstoreIn an effort to absorb and detoxify Starbucks, infiltrators licked every available surface — the Reverend Billy himself licking the spout to the steamer. |