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...features a gallery of notable avant-garde art and is home to Red, perhaps the most louche-looking restaurant in town. The plump, red couches have even the most starched of customers slouching like lounge lizards. The wine list would make Dionysus' toes curl, and the nouvelle Greek cuisine is affordable and appetizing. Best of all, it won't taste like the rubber Parthenon you picked up earlier...
...Fulbright scholar, brought a distinctly international flavor to the Brattle during a time when most Americans had seen very few non-Hollywood films. Harvey and Haliday helped rekindle interest in American classics that had long been forgotten. They also established the important Janus Films, Inc., the main distributor of avant-garde films in the U.S. until 1966, when it was forced to close after too many directors were snatched up by Hollywood. Harvey and Haliday brilliantly juxtaposed old Hollywood classics and new foreign films to create a well-rounded repertoire that was both educational and entertaining. Even when the ownership...
...another successful segment, actors from the ART Institute performed, in an avant garde production, excerpts from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, adapted and directed by Mercedes Murphy. Dealing (in part) with the barren aftermath of the tragedy of World War I, the poem took on new meaning in dealing with the tragedy, as New York City became the “Unreal City” of the poem. With harrowing background music by Samrat Chakrabarti, the difficult piece emerged as a relevant theatrical moment...
...taxi ride to the Dongtai Road antiques market, where crowded stalls offer everything from kitschy Mao memorabilia to exquisitely carved Qing dynasty wooden doors hauled from nearby mountain villages. For more modern fare, hail another taxi for a five-minute ride west to the small, sleek ShanghART Gallery, where avant-garde artists show off their best work. The gallery is nestled in Fuxing Park, a secluded green space where pensioners go through the dreamlike motions of Tai Chi or hone their falsettos to traditional Shanghai opera...
...City painter Stuart Davis christened one of his pictures Colonial Cubism--a splendidly witty reference to the dilemma American artists found themselves in when they looked across the Atlantic to Paris. How could you get out of the colonial bind--the sense of being condemned, in the name of avant-garde aspiration, to imitate the outer forms of avant-gardism, to keep doing the new at second hand? This was the problem for South American modernists too--and in spades. The whole relation of South American art to Europe and then, after 1950 or so, to North America, was thorny...