Word: artful
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What does it take to steal a Rembrandt? Surely one must divert the museum guard’s attention, disable alarms, twist through zigzagging lasers and plan a smooth escape. At least so it would seem from art heist films like “The Thomas Crown Affair.” But, according to the infamous art thief Myles J. Connor, Jr., all you really need is the audacity to stride into a museum during open hours, grab a painting, and run like hell...
...bank robber, and a cat burglar. He’s gotten into violent vendettas against Boston police, been put in jail, and broken out armed only with a gun carved out of soap. He even owned a pet cougar. But Connor is most notorious as a master of the art heist—so notorious that he was suspected of the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum while incarcerated...
...It’s not just paying attention to the art piece. It’s also thinking about how to reach students, how to make theater important again,” she says.Besides focusing on the performance elements of the A.R.T., Paulus has recognized that the theater must consider the economic situation as it implements changes to its mission...
...can’t separate art from business anymore, but we have to think in a very integrated way about what theater is and how we are most effective,” Paulus says. In some ways the current economic climate has even provided the necessary catalyst to initiate the A.R.T.’s venture into expanding the boundaries of theater...
...memorable. Thousands of people have tried to describe it, but to little—if any—avail. And so the movie “The Burning Plain,” written and directed by the Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, is the latest work to remind us that art and alchemy are not so different. At the risk of seeming to gush, no description will do the film justice. In both script and direction, Arriaga reaches for many familiar ingredients. But the result this time is different. You’ll recognize the Arriaga style from his previous films...