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Bruce Nauman at the Venice Biennale (1st review)
A few impertinent questions about the celebrated Bruce Nauman
The in-your-face multi-media artist Bruce Nauman has been much feted since his Venice Biennale entry won the Golden Lion Prize for best national pavilion early this month. Would it be churlish to ask what his work means?
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Jaamil Kosoko's "Virus' at UArts
Love among the robots
Jaamil Kosoko's compelling but cluttered Virus purports to show how technology distorts identity and human interaction while leaving vestiges of our humanity intact. Call it a good idea in need of further development.
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The Crossing's unique niche
Class act
Donald Nally's choir, The Crossing, occupies a unique niche in the musical ecosystem: Its singers perform new and unfamiliar music for a small chamber choir. It presents novel, beautiful, complex music that requires precise coordination and first-class voices.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Sylphide' and "Barber Violin Concerto' (
And the moral of the story is....
The Pennsylvania Ballet's much-hyped restaging of Bournonville's La Sylphide floundered in comparison to the brilliantly executed company premiere of Peter Martins's Barber Violin Concerto.
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Shanley's 'Doubt' at People's Light
The courage to stand up (to Meryl Streep)
John Patrick Shanley's Doubt was inspired by the Catholic Church's sex scandals, but it's not a didactic work. People's Light offers a production that respects the play's subtleties and ambiguities.
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1807 & Friends season finale
The Archduke also rises
Three of the city's most active chamber musicians transmit a chronic infection to their audience.
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"Cézanne and Beyond' post-mortem (4th review)
Picasso's languid penis, and other discoveries in ‘Cézanne and Beyond'
“Cézanne and Beyond,” the Philadelphia Museum of Art's major show of the year, was its best in some time, but could have been a great deal richer for collaboration with the Barnes Foundation and its matchless trove of the great French master. VIP guests got to take the 15-minute ride to Merion, but for the masses the PMA and its corporate masters still pretend that the Barnes is somewhere west of Cleveland.
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"Remembering Daniel Nagrin' at Susan Hess Modern Dance
The man who danced (almost) forever
No other dancer commanded all the characteristics of the soloist Daniel Nagrin, who died last December at 91. But two of his protégés, Shane O'Hara and Donald Laney, gave an astonishing little concert in tribute to their incomparable mentor.
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PTC's "Grey Gardens' (2nd review)
The lighter side of squalor
In Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of Grey Gardens, Joy Franz as the mother and Hollis Resnik as the daughter preen in such an exaggerated style that they lose our empathy. Theater is a different medium from the cult film on which this musical is based. They should show us, not tell us what we need to know.
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Harp Music Festival's third edition
What Fellini and John Williams knew about the harp
Harpist Saul Davis Zlatkovski mounted the third edition of his welcome addition to the fading days of the Philadelphia music season. Zlatkovski has put some impressive organizational work into this project, but he can use help with the administrative details.
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