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...that it is nearly impossible to imagine what his stories would be without the self-deprecating and often profound figure behind the mic. But none of the five actors in “Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell,” performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art Thursday through Sunday, were Spalding Gray. A middle-aged woman, a man with a foreign accent, and the colorful ex-mayor of Providence Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci, Jr., all stepped in to read Gray’s words. Yet this physical disparity was inconsequential; Gray?...
...crisis, given their relative removal from financial systems. To boot, rents are plummeting in major cities across the country, as is the cost of living. This is something to be excited about.Yes, you read correctly. While it’s a truism to say that the best art has always been created in poorer times, the real gift that all artists today have been given is the opportunity, freer than before from market-driven industry pressures, to answer an eternal question: where do we go from here? For many of the workaday sorts, the answer seems...
...welcome respite from the school’s political battles, saying she applied a measure of fairness absent from many of the debates that characterized that era at the Law School.Unlike many argumentative law students who perpetuated the politicized mindset of the time, Kagan was skilled in the art of listening to conflicting viewpoints, her classmates say.“She was the adult presence in the room, the one who could get people to sit down and reconcile their differences,” says Owen J. Clements, a member of the Law Review under Kagan’s leadership...
...boots, peeking out from under the sheet, sparkle like the Wicked Witch’s red footwear in the “The Wizard of Oz.” The smell of rot and formaldehyde permeates the entire gallery. But repulsion alone does not drive Hatry’s art. In a statement about her work, she compares sculpting animal parts for her images with a photographer’s preparation of a model for a photo shoot. The resulting portraits are eerily similar. The taut expressions of the pig-skin figures are reminiscent of faces fastened by Botox injections...
...segment to be a theatrical representation of the planet on a fashion runway. “It’s hard to prevent misinterpretations of what’s trying to be an empowering production because there are a lot of different ways in which people can interpret art,” Navarro says. “Eleganza is art in a dynamic form but it is ultimately up to the individual to interpret the production. You can’t create a bullet-proof plan to prevent people to misinterpret our ideas.”This year Navarro...