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What she found most entertaining, however, was that the company that had designed the booth had taken a less than scientific approach. The company, which happened to be a special effects studio, had adjusted their aging algorithm by asking staff members whether the booth’s predictions seemed believable. The result was that Museum of Science booth reinforced an exaggerated and inaccurate idea of the personal changes that come with...
...crooning into a microphone. The music itself varied in quality and enjoyability (it was a pastiche of covers ranging from Joni Mitchell to Carol King, mixed with Prina’s original music), but what most audience members seemed most confused about was how, exactly, they were supposed to approach the performance. Should one simply relax and enjoy the music, forgetting that the event was technically a performance art piece rather than a rock show? And if this was the idea, was it ok to be bored with the music if it didn’t measure up to other...
...make a long story short, Kline’s painting was much more interesting to look at than I had first supposed, and I think my return trip to the gallery provided a valuable lesson: You can get into trouble if you approach art with concepts or catagories that are too rigid, especially if you try to frame your experience of the work in terms of these preconcieved notions. Sometimes I think the best thing to do is simply sit back and let the paintings talk to you, and to each other...
...latest in a series of increasingly pale imitations of Ang Lee’s breakthrough martial-arts ballet. Though Crouching Tiger is in itself part of a long tradition of Hong Kong action cinema, it has inspired a new wave of iterations of the formula, none of which approach the prototype in terms of its poetically minimalist plot, beautiful photography and graceful fight scenes...
...performance by Sean Penn that anchors the story of a man who loses everything and decides to follow the American dream in the most unlikely manner—assassinating the president. But despite its title and its arrival amidst a hyper-polemic era of filmmaking, Nixon presents a nuanced approach to politics that distances it from the talking head forums that litter today’s cineplexes...