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I wanted to know your opinion on this quote, which I read in The Boston Globe: "Rent symbolizes the '90s generation's simultaneous rejection of bourgeois society and, perhaps paradoxically, bourgeois society's acceptance of that rebellion."
There is no doubt that this sensual, mythical poem-play is extremely challenging not only by virtue of its grand themes but also because of its schizoid scenes and violent characters. Baal is the name of a fertility god, but this play, full of images of rotting food and flesh...
Where French comic-making often truly shines, though, is in the realm of the ordinary--the strips about "everyday life." From a slightly slatternly, stay-at-home bourgeois family (Christian Binet's "Les Bidochon"), to a grumpy, jaded modern student (Claire Bretecher's adventures of "Agrippine"), to a wide-eyed...
Yesterday's aggro and shock, today's museum relic. "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," curated by Francis Naumann and Beth Venn and now running at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is an interesting show of what is, ultimately, a spiky but fairly thin subject. Dadaism...
Screening of a documentary about the impact of women artists on 20th century art; includes interviews with artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Nancy Spero.