Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Allen is lucky that his clever though slight concept is bolstered by actors who breathe an impressive amount of life into their limited characters. Sean Penn gleefully slips into Emmets skin. Stuttering, overconfident and vulnerable, Emmet is a bundle of nervous tics that Penn knows how to make believable. Emmet is, in addition to being a performance artist, a kleptomaniac, pimp and all-around heel, who somehow comes off as a nice guy despite himself. The running joke of the movie is that Emmet Ray is the second greatest jazz guitarist of his time, and the two times that Emmet...
Through Dec. 18: Still Life, 1999 (Lucy Barber, Myrna Beecher, Joseph Byrne and others...
...Drawn From Life" (group show...
...between the organic and the artificial. Artschwager takes a living material, wood, and presents it as lifeless; his sculptures are rigorously symmetrical, quadrangular and severe. Bleckner, on the other hand, makes his canvases feel biological, endowing oil and linen with all of the texture, mutability and fluid motion of life...
...This meditation on the value of film and imagination follows a Depression-era housewife (Mia Farrow) who goes to the pictures for escapism and one day finds that her favorite movie character (Jeff Daniels) has somehow escaped from the screen and into her life. The movie gets unexpected poignancy out of its superb comic setup and shares with Sweet and Lowdown Allens talent for recreating...