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With no less than four articles and columns last Sunday, the Inquirer finally got around to acknowledging the fracas over the Barnes Foundation’s proposed move. But Barnes chairman Bernard Watson’s op-ed defense of the move is replete with evasions and distortions.
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Music
Orchestra’s new season (good news)
The Orchestra’s inane marketing
Black audiences and classical music
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Music Reviews
Three Finns and Liszt, by the Orchestra
Jasmine Choi flute recital
Reich, Glass and Bryars at Annenberg
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Art
Barnes Day in the ‘Inquirer’
The vanishing art postcard
The Barnes architects make their case
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Art Reviews
Gabriel Orozco at MOMA in New York
‘Picasso and the Paris Avant-Garde’ at the Art Museum (3rd review)
‘Picasso and the Paris Avant-Garde’ at the Art Museum (2nd review)
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Theater
Who should play Helen Keller?
Sport vs. theater: ‘Chad Deity’ and ‘Grace’
Summer camp for show biz hopefuls
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Theater Reviews
Mary Martello’s ‘Happily Ever After’
‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Arden
Bill Cain’s ‘Equivocation,’ Off-Broadway
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Opera
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 6: ‘Götterdämmerung’)
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 5: ‘Siegfried’)
Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle (Part 4: ‘Die Walküre’)
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Opera Reviews
Tan Dun’s ‘Tea’ by the Opera Company (3rd review)
Bellini’s ‘Sleepwalker’ by Curtis Opera
Tan Dun’s ‘Tea’ by the Opera Company (2nd review)
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Dance
Dancing for his life in Rwanda
Alex Ketley: A choreographer’s failure
Merce Cunningham’s final challenge
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Dance Reviews
Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘Program II’
Pink Hair Affair’s ‘Take It Off!’
New Zealand’s Black Grace at the Kimmel
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Cross-Cultural
Another take on priestly abuse
‘The Hurt Locker’ and the endless war
Chile: Left wing and right, together
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Cross-Cultural Reviews
‘Crazy Heart’ vs. ‘The Wrestler’
Jason Reitman’s ‘Up in the Air’ (2nd review)
James Ellroy’s ‘Blood’s A Rover’
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