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Summer Screens

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French Toons The French animator Jean-François Laguionie stocks his latest animated film with characters who know they’re living inside a painting, in Le Tableau (The Painting). In this wryly inventive parable, a kingdom within a painting is divided into three castes: the impeccably colored Alldunns, the incomplete Halfies, and the barely [...]
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Books for a Summer Day

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Architecture of Seduction As the 1960s became The Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York’s Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with [...]
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Engineered to Please

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New media. It is the hottest trend in the art world. But what happens when that new media, which in this case includes flashing LED lights and music generated by uniquely written computer code, also includes Wal-mart issue pots and pans and Tupperware? In the case of Joel Sampson’s [...]
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State of Summer Arts

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Size Matters Lifelike invites a close examination of artworks based on commonplace objects and situations, which are startlingly realistic, but often made of unusual materials in unexpected sizes. Organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, this international, multigenerational group exhibition features 75 works from the [...]
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Music of the Heart

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Some critics have labeled Songs for a New World as an abstract musical, given the fact the show by Tony Award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown tells its collection of stories in sing-scenes with no over-arching plot and no consistent characters throughout the evening [...]
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