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This exhibition directs its viewers to a precedent, the "ideal." The title Twice Born: Beauty is taken from one of Hegel's lectures on aesthetics called "Born of the Spirit and Born Again." In this lecture, he writes that the "forms of art, as the actualizing and unfolding of the beautiful, find their origin in the Idea itself...The consummation of the Idea as content appears therefore simultaneously as also the consummation of form...
...Madness of George III with the intent of conveying an "aesthetic experience." The cast served this end with an amazing stage presence, recreating the idiosynchratic characters of a period piece, flavored with a few well-picked dramatic allusions. Prime Minister Pitt, for example, was molded on the republican ideal and carried the air of a sad and lonely Robespierre. Christopher Sahm's Prince of Wales and Adam Kline's Duke of York brought a tinge of Oscar Wilde to this Georgian stage. The three incompetent medical men who try to find the key to the king's madness...
After 13 years as the chief theater critic for The Times, Rich shifted gears in 1993 to write a column for the op-ed page, which he described as an ideal but daunting...
...Harvard is no place to start. Our offensive line's combined SAT score is probably higher than that of some entire conferences. Here, Plato's ideal of the scholar-athlete actually works...
...Although the University has been very generous in giving our most recently appointed faculty space outside of William James Hall, this obviously isn't ideal--and it appears that even this strategy may have reached the end of the line, [since} there isn't much free space on campus," he writes...