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...pioneer in the form of autobiographical comix, Harvey Pekar and his "American Splendor" series recently became the basis for a hit independent film. This is his most serious and longest work, written in collaboration with his wife and drawn by Frank Stack, and is a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis...
...jumbled as it is, this musical is not to be sniffed at. The portrait of the freewheeling, sexually adventurous, pre-AIDS club world is vivid, uncompromising and often funny. And as a study of the perils of fame, the show is miles beyond the other biographical musical playing down the block - The Boy From Oz, a candy-coated account of the life of pop star Peter Allen. With the exception of O?Dowd, who?s a little stiff as Bowery, the cast is superb, especially Morton, a sweet-voiced doppleganger for Boy George, and Esparza, an electric Broadway star...
...Lady of the Forest (Knopf; 323 pages) leaves such questions and the purity and mystery of Ann's sightings largely intact. Instead the author concentrates on how her clear, white vision refracts into a rainbow of reflections, few of them exalted. His book is, in effect, a group of portraits of beat-up, lived-in lives that amounts to a group portrait of America today...
With its inclusion of the Busch’s first original art work—Arthur Kampf’s portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II, one of five paintings among an array of prints and drawings—the exhibition reminds audiences of the museum’s conservative origin...
...Kampf’s portrait, the traditional figure of the Kaiser stands erect with a hint of a sneer, clashing with Lovis Corinth’s adjacent Salomé, which epitomizes the unconventional. Largely a satirical depiction of femmes fatales, the wanton Salomé leans over John the Baptist’s head with her breasts exposed, her fingers probing at the eyes of the dead. Informed more by the burlesque than the Biblical, Corinth uses the grotesque to satirize a common subject in paintings at the time...