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...that Stalin's was conducted by a totalitarian state and used to promote a single product - communist ideology." The show's 200 paintings, posters and films trace the development of Soviet "agit-art," from its inception in 1918 among the painters of the Russian avant-garde to the heyday of Socialist Realism in the 1930s and 1940s. One reason it became so effective was that, especially in the early years, it was artist-driven. There was oversight and censorship by apparatchiks, of course, but it was the artists - impassioned by the Bolshevik Revolution, holding high office themselves, and exploring...
Which represents the true 1970s: Peter Bogdanovich or Peter Brady? Chinatown or Hong Kong Phooey? Was the decade a wacky jag of smiley faces and bell-bottoms or a daring heyday of nonconformism and creativity? You can decide this month when the two 1970s duke it out in two weirdly complementary cable specials...
...Mark Melchiorre, bassist Brian Weaver and drummer Kevin Frank—five shaggy-haired time travelers hell-bent on resurrecting rock’n’roll. They strip their sound down to the essentials: wailing guitar licks, raucous vocals and crashing drums redolent of rock’s heyday in the 70s. Explicit lyrics might stave off mass appeal for Silvertide, but the rambunctious quintet out of northeastern Philadelphia strike that chord of mania and excess with rock fanatics. Tuesday, August 19 at 9:50 p.m. $6. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
...Rialto, situated in a prewar neighborhood just a few hundred yards from where Wladyslaw Szpilman, the hero of The Pianist, hid out after the 1944 uprising (the area is now a busy shopping district). The Rialto is lavishly outfitted, with black-and-white Art Deco furnishings from Warsaw's heyday in the 1920s. Its elevator is modeled on an Orient Express compartment, with red leather seating. There are only 45 rooms, and no two have the same design. --By Andrew Purvis and Tadeusz Kucharsk/Warsaw
Perhaps “grandeur” overstates Tacony’s legacy. In its heyday at the end of the 19th century, Tacony was a factory town, dominated by the Henry Disston and Sons Saw Works. Makers of the strongest files and saw blades in the world, Disston and Sons was a jewel of American industry. Henry Disston bought up 390 acres of land in 1871, when Tacony was mostly farmland, and built a town on his estate so that his workers could live close to the factory. Like other paternalistic titans, Disston controlled the workers inside and outside...