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Visual Arts Review: London’s Design Museum — An Inspiring Experience

January 19, 2017
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London’s Design Museum is now one of the major venues in the world for experiencing the art of design.

Film Review: “Town Bloody Hall” — Rip-Roaring Feminist Cross Fire

October 18, 2020
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The 1979 documentary Town Bloody Hall is a time tunnel passageway into what stand-up comedians used to call “women’s lib.” It is still liable to raise a gendered ruckus — and provide a rollicking good time.

Book Review: Anne Garréta’s “Sphinx” — A Compelling Story of Genderless Love

July 15, 2015
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Garréta pulls off a stylistic feat: it is impossible to determine the gender of the two main characters.

Film Review: “Janet Planet” — The Fertile Silence of Awareness

June 24, 2024
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As usual, Annie Baker is more interested in how viewers gather information, gleaned from bits of dialogue, than in wrapping up a neat plot or delivering a message.

Film Preview: The Weirdly Beautiful World of Rosamond Purcell — “An Art That Nature Makes”

November 13, 2016
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Rosamond Purcell’s striking photographs are about surprising transformations, the unexpected magic of metamorphosis.

Book Review: “Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound” — Poetry of Common Cause

February 16, 2020
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Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.

Book Review: “To Walk Alone in the Crowd” — Masterpiece or Mess?

August 6, 2021
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Like Blinky in Pac-Man, the narrator of this provocative but often frustrating and diffuse book gobbles up everything.

Book Review: Philippe Jaccottet’s “Seedtime” — Exploring the Inherent Mysteries of the World As It Is

February 21, 2014
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French writer Philippe Jaccottet’s ever-questioning poetic analyses of haunting ephemeral perceptions are carried on with such scruple and sincerity that, for his European peers, he has become the model of literary integrity.

Visual Arts: Deaccession — The Deadly Sin

May 18, 2010
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By Gary Schwartz On February 21, 2007, I had the honor of delivering the Third Annual Lecture of the Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance at the Getty Research Institute. My subject was “Rembrandt’s paper trail,” but that is not the subject of this column. What keeps coming to mind is an exchange…

Doc Talk: Three Portraits of Artists — One as a Young Woman and Two as Old Men

August 25, 2022
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Three recent documentaries explore the worlds of three masters of disparate but complementary art forms: photography and cinema, sculpture and painting, and toilets.

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