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Female Subway Musicians A Rarity
For subway commuters in New York City and other cities around the world, subterranean musicians are a near-constant presence. These performers range in age, race, and talent. They play everything from the classical...
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Kareem Ralph Amin: The Abstract Imagination
It was a poignant work of art, marked with a “dark, intense, and melancholy-colored feeling”; a result of lingering emotional remnants left by the untimely death of his stepmother in 2006.
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Broadway Posters: A Window to the Great White Way
When you first step over the threshold into the Triton Gallery on Ninth Avenue in New York City, you better catch your breath and take a peek at your shoes — they may have turned red in the instant.
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‘Bidder 70’: A Lesson in Civil Disobedience
I first met Beth and George Gage, the husband and wife team of Gage and Gage Productions, in the fall of 2010. They came to my alma mater — Pitzer College in Claremont, California — to screen the trailer...
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‘Moonrise Kingdom’: A Multifaceted Youthful Love Story
Back when all the girls in school wore knee socks and all the boys wore coonskin caps, life was a lot more innocent. Of course, as the movie Moonrise Kingdom shows us, part of that carefree lifestyle was that...
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FRIEZE: Taking the Chill Out of Art Fairs
The art fair, in its current incarnation, has become a necessary evil. People with less and less time to go from country to country or even from gallery to gallery to see artists’ work, happily form an...
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Ubiquitous Ufabulum
Already a pillar in the pantheon of electronic musicians, British artist Tom Jenkinson, better known to fans as Squarepusher has returned. He never left, but his shape shifting style and crossovers into different...
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‘Women’s Work’: Nice Work If You Can Get It
You remember the familiar lyric by George Gershwin? — “Nice work if you can get it and you can get it if you try.” The work in question is ART with capital letters, a broad and beautiful perspective of...
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Tracing the Dolphins, Among Other Things, In Cambodia
I dismounted my bicycle as I heard a woman squeal. ‘That’s strange,’ I thought. ‘What is there to yell about?’ The sun was bright and the sky clear; it was the kind of weather thought up by...
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Our Savior of the Moral Dilemma: John Patrick Shanley Builds a ‘Storefront Church’
There is no playwright alive who understands human motivation and its moral consequences better than John Patrick Shanley. His trilogy, Church and State, began with Doubt, about a war between a...
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