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...comparisons between Wyeth and other regionalist/realists of the period—Winslow Homer, Norman Rockwell??the best is to Edward Hopper. As the abstract painter Mark Rothko put it, “Wyeth is about the pursuit of strangeness, but he is not whole, as Hopper is whole.” I can accept that Wyeth is perhaps not the best of his contemporaries. But that they passed him by entirely? Never...
...what could be called the turning point of “Choke,” Clark Gregg’s directorial debut, a doctor played by Kelly Macdonald reveals that Sam Rockwell??s character may share genetic material with Jesus Christ. “So you’re saying I’m the son of Jesus Christ?” he asks. “More like His half-clone,” she replies.There are a handful of delirious revelations like this in the film—which is adapted from the Chuck Palahniuk novel...
Clarke seems distinctly, and unashamedly, unaware of what she has done with this show. At a discussion with Clarke last Monday sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, facilitator John Rockwell??s voice rang with exasperation as he pushed Clarke to explain her interpretation. Did a feminist interpretation, he asked, determine the play’s opening scenes—which feature Karen MacDonald as an impudent Hippolyta, swollen with mute resentment of her husband Theseus (John Campion), the top-heavy emblem of dour autocratic unreasonableness? Clarke didn’t think so. “Quite...
...Rockwell??s lifelong affair with the arts began during his undergraduate years at Harvard, where he says he “did odd things”—including working at WHRB, participating in the madrigal club and singing in the chorus of the Harvard-Radcliffe Opera...
...Rockwell??s position as an overseer makes him a key figure in discussing the role and the future of the arts at Harvard...