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...away from Boston, though judging from the crowds in the Lamont reading room these days, one would never know it. Go to Boston. Experience the Arts. If we were here, this is where we'd be: 1) the MFA. A supereclectic show called "A Grand Design" is now on exhibit. You'll recognize this exhibit from the ads in the T station-can't miss those funky blue shoes. 2) The Science Museum. (Yes, the Science Museum) Everest is their current Omni film. 3) "Collected Stories," a Pulizter Prize nominated play, is now onstage at the Huntington Theatre. Check...
From the title alone, one can gather that Kara Walker's exhibit positions itself on a fine edge between mockery and representation, between historical narrative and cultural commentary. Rather than narrating history, Walker uses history as a backdrop for a less literal, though just as real, melodrama. Her work unabashedly analyzes the collective unconscious of the American psyche. What she dredges up--racist imagery involving bestiality, child abuse, feces and more--is not pretty. It is grotesque, disgusting, ingenious and eerily beautiful...
...black paper cut-outs form a series of approximately life-size silhouettes staged in a dream-like setting that ranges from rural plantations to stylized gardens. The images of the exhibit move like a dream, occasionally implying a broken chronology, or continuing a narrative through head gestures of the silhouettes. Many of Walker's images combine stereotypes of the devilish, animalistic black American with allusions to the folklore of the "happy darky" who entertains whites and enjoys subservience. The result: the exhibit achieves, in Walker's words, a "reinactment [sic] of history in the arena of desire...
...black and white. Kera Walker's recent installation in the Carpenter Center for the Arts appears in conjunction with Harvard's Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke: A Series of Conversations on the Use of Black Stereotypes in Contemporary Visual Practice." Walker's exhibit consists of silhouttes "Presenting Negro Scenes" that span the walls of the lobby...
James Whalen shines in the small part of Suzy'shusband Sam, who leaves after the second scene anddoesn't return until the very end of the play.Although they only share the stage for fiveminutes, Whalen and Tomei exhibit great chemistry.Unfortunately, the same can't be said for StephenLang's Mark Talman, the good-hearted hood whodevelops an affinity for Suzy while simultaneouslyattempting to con her. The sexual tension betweenLang and Tomei falls flat, mainly because theytalk at rather than to one other.Their exchanges are hopelessly wooden--strange,considering the ample talent and experience ofthese two fine performers...