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...moves. Much in evidence to an American observer are the familiar echoes of old Hollywood vaudeville movies and the African-American companies that toured South Africa more than a century ago, bringing both step-dance movements and spirituals. During the concert, virtuoso performers nonchalantly step from the line to exhibit their special talents. Each soloist's voice projects like several musical instruments playing at once. Verse after verse propels the audience on a voyage through spiritual lament and human urges, raw humor and subtle jabs, inheritance squabbles and political rivalry. The pendulum of elation and sorrow swings throughout...
...your hand a long Russian novel, The Brothers Karamazov, say. Tear out four of every five pages. Go to a golf course in a gated community in Southern Florida, and read those pages. Alone, in a basement and out of the cold, I had a similar experience. The exhibit of Candida Hšfer's Photographs at the Rose Museum is stunning, but it is small, fragmentary, and out of place...
...slightly smaller. The nine square photographs are on loan from the Sonnabend Gallery, in New York, with which Hofer has had a long association. The two smaller squares, both photographs taken within the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, are courtesy of the Rena Bransten Gallery, in San Francisco. The photographs exhibited are selections from three different series that Hoferhas done, one of libraries, one of museums, and one of office spaces.The current exhibition space is tucked away within the Rose Art Museum, at Brandeis University. The Rose Art Museum is a haven for contemporary art in New England. A water fountain...
...Sight-Seeing: Photography of the Middle East and its Audiences, 1840-1940," which runs through April 22 at the Fogg Museum, masterfully takes up this issue and explores the ways photography shaped both Europe's real and imaginary encounters with the Middle East. The exhibit combines both commercial and amateur prints in the forms of snapshots, commercially reproduced photo albums, postcards, panoramic prints and lantern slides. The exhibit focuses on the main areas of photographic representation: landscapes, portraiture, Western technological innovation and representational images...
...exhibit of this nature, the curator places heavy emphasis on the photographs as historical texts which raise questions about colonialism, Western depictions of the Middle East, Orientalism and way the western world used photographs to construct attitudes of "otherness." The photographs are largely selected for their historical value, rather than for their intrinsic artistic or aesthetic beauty...