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When you try to put a performance, a happening, a tableau vivant in a museum, what do you get? Very little; the thing is over and done with and the museum-goer mulls over the leftovers, the photographs and documents, like a detective looking over a reopened file. It's tough to present artists who work in the medium of willful impermanence: pity the curators. And hear what three such artists-ALLAN KAPROW, inventor of the capital-H Happening, PAUL McCARTHY, the most scatological performance artist now working, and VANESSA BEECROFT, best known for her work with large roomfuls...
Welty's other pieces featured in the show seem vastly disconnected from her work with twist-ties. Medical charts covered in Wite-Out, Manila-Out, glue and odd colored dots line one wall, faintly resembling Mondrian paintings as viewed by a tremendously nearsighted museum-goer. The charts, while each is a different size, vary very little from one to the next. Though the idea is innovative, Welty simply seems to be showing us yet another way to appreciate the diversity of supplies from Staples...
...This is the largest collection of the Roulin family portraits ever seen together - 17 in total, including seven different versions of 'The Postman Joseph Roulin.' Granted, the exhibit was conceived in part because the Detroit Institute of Arts wanted to show off one newly acquired version, but the museum-goer gets a little lost in the mass of paintings of this family...
...this show will strike an opera-goer as familiar. Presented recitative-style, with alternating spoken dialogue and songs that reveal characters' feelings and motivations, there are secrets revealed, kidnappings, bumbling henchmen, crude comedy and low-tech special effects like flash pots and strobes. Characters have solos, duets and ensemble arrangements, accompanied by interpretive dancers. There is even a pas de deux...
...department stepped up its presence at the club's party for another reason: the previous year, a party-goer followed a first-year student home and attempted a sexual assault...