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...hidden connections between distant pieces. There is an unobtrusive grid of small colored boxes in one of the black-and-white photographs of Caracas by Paolo Gasparini in the first room of the show; a similar pattern of colors turns up in a group of color photographs of the present-day city in a different room. The more you look, the more you find. It is therefore a pleasure to find every detail of the show executed with precise care. The plastic frame holding a book’s slip-jacket is perfectly recessed into the plaster wall...
...preceptor added that there has not been “any curricular development going on” under the present administration...
Technophobes and luddites, rejoice! You finally have a pretty good zombie movie to call your own. George A. Romero’s most recent film, “Diary of the Dead,” re-imagines the beginning of his zombie saga in the present day, where terrified victims are more likely to post videos of their accounts on YouTube than barricade themselves in a farmhouse. And while “Diary” is not the most terrifying of Romero’s films, it provides a strong and compelling commentary on human nature...
...Maybe it will introduce you to an artist who’s trying to break with tradition and create something new. Or maybe, if the artist doesn’t push the boundaries of music, the product will still boast some diversity. At the very least, said artist should present songs that are distinguishable from one another. Unfortunately, Jason Collett seems hopelessly incapable of doing any of these things. The folk-rock artist, who hails from Canada, recently released his fourth solo album “Here’s to Being Here.” Collett, perhaps better known...
...Originally written two years after “Fatelessness,” “Detective Story” demonstrates an expansion in focus from its predecessor as it denounces the general inhumanity of totalitarian governments. Set in an unidentified, fictional South American state, under a vague but ominously present dictatorship—which itself gets overthrown by an equally blurry political force—the novella revels in its vagueness, making its story a universal one of dehumanization. Framed as the memoir of torturer Antonio Rojas Martens, a member of the secret police now in prison, it tells...