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...stay any longer than to see the three photographs by Lewis Wickes Hine, from the famed Pittsburgh Survey? Why give the show a chance? Because after the initial shock of boredom, the exhibition becomes unexpectedly absorbing...
...motor home: they will bond in unforeseen ways, and they will constantly face complications involving fecal matter. “R.V.” depends largely on potty humor to elicit laughs, which is disappointing in light of its sharp comic cast featuring Robin Williams and Cheryl Hine (of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” fame). But the film is saved by a string of quips that reference the current state of American society and pop culture. These jokes, which seem to target a post-pubescent audience, make the film reasonably amusing for viewers of all ages. Williams...
...composer Igor Stravinsky. Ostensibly they were there to celebrate the premier of Stravinsky's ballet Le Renard, performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The real reason: so a wealthy English arts patron, Sydney Schiff, could bring together the giants he worshipped. In A Night at the Majestic, Richard Davenport-Hines brilliantly reimagines this unique-in-art-history event, setting the five-star diners in their Modernist context, between Picasso's first and shocking foray into Cubism, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1906-7, and Joyce's revolutionary novel, Ulysses, in 1922. The ambitious Schiff was pinning his hopes...
...Cognac category is more sensitive than wine to advertising, and so the world is largely familiar with the big names--Martell, Courvoisier, Hine and so on--all of which turn out a fine product. There are also several smaller, quality houses such as Prunier, Delamain and Ragnaud. But the best Cognac you have never heard of is A. Edmund Audry. Specializing in Cognacs with large stocks of older base spirits, Audry is difficult to find in the U.S. but worth the extra legwork. (Hint: call its importer for help...
...British soldiers on maneuvers during the Crimean War and one of Alexander Gardner's "staged" photographs - he was not above placing a rifle next to a corpse for dramatic effect - from Gettysburg. And Witness does not make fussy distinctions between "art" photography and "news" photography. Social documentarians Lewis Hine and Dorothea Lange mingle with Gilles Peress, James Nachtwey and Luc Delahaye, who made their names on battlefronts during the 1980s and '90s. Nachtwey's picture of a man staring up at one of the smoking World Trade Center towers perfectly renders the initial astonishment before it turned to horror. Letizia...