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Yale, which reportedly expects a $22 million budget deficit this year, is struggling to keep down costs while undertaking expensive renovations of many of its neo Gothic buildings...
...born in Pieve di Cadore, in north Italy, in 1478 or 1479. Apprenticed to a Venetian artist before his 10th birthday (no child labor, no Renaissance), he came to work with the two painters whose work incarnated the "modern style" that had pushed Venetian taste away from gold-ground Gothic: Giovanni Bellini and Giorgio da Castelfranco, alias Giorgione. One sees, in the introductory galleries of this show, how Bellini supplied the prototypes for one side of early Titian, his suave construction of pictorial space and pragmatic realism. Then, equally fundamental, there is Giorgione, Titian's exact coeval, but dead...
...Wolfgang Murad have extended Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," into an engrossing 90 minute play. Although their attempts at moving the 1890 piece into 1993 are unsuccessful, they are also unnecessary--it's best to ignore the program and enjoy the show as a gothic social commentary on 19th century repression of women...
This could be any one of a number of Gothic romances. It's actually all of them mixed together. Now in production at Boston's Lyric Stage, the late Charles Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Vep: a Penny Dreadful is a sendup of every Gothic novel, 30s horror film, and classic romance to have ever sent thrills and chills down your spine...
...Hothouse Gothic...