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...Yuri Vladimirov. An extraordinarily lithe actor with a frazzled mane and long simian arms, Vladimirov in his mad scenes looked oddly like a bemused orangutan who had suddenly been set loose from a zoo. That effect was heightened in the ballet's unintentionally ludicrous climax, when the paranoid Czar, hopelessly entangled among bell ropes, dangles above a crowd of foot-stomping peasants...
...days has fantasized about the ultimate bank failure or Dow Jones plummet. The solution: a ready supply of cash or jewelry. But where can they be secreted? At the back of a picture? Too obvious. In the toilet tank? Too amateurish. In a loose floorboard? Too melodramatic. Into this paranoid quandary steps Krotz with a toolbox full of solutions...
...three dozen pen-and-ink drawings that are not only a fiendishly frustrating challenge to the cocktail-table Theseus but also are art works of amazing-so to speak-delicacy and variety. Some resemble Op art, others an elaborate electronic circuit; they look like a nexus of noodles, or paranoid doodles, or 18th century chinoiserie. Some of these Bright ideas are even designed with no exits or entrances...
...lost hierarchies of consciousness-will have gone through the big auction houses or been sold by "respectable" private dealers in Europe or the U.S. That is what the art market comes down to: a brutish mugging that never stops. Urbino has turned every public work of art into a paranoid object...
...Strindberg play, apparently from his paranoid-expressionist period, at the Ex this weekend. Strindberg's best plays have an intensity sometimes locking in the work of his more famous older contemporary bean and been, who had a picture of Strindberg hanging in his study, know it. "It's gotten to the point that I can't work without his mad eyes staring down at me," he is supposed to have said...