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...street corner, in a museum it takes on a slightly cold and eccentric feel. Something about it—and not just the painted sign that said “Sweeney Tate”—feels slightly sinister. Perhaps that’s why viewers stand at the door, unsure if they ought to sit in the barber’s chairs and wait for a phantom haircut to arrive. This participatory art actually casts the museum as an alternate, more theater-like world, moving away from the question “what is reality...
...First Impressions of Earth” put the final nail in the coffin. Perhaps no band better exemplifies America’s resistance to good rock better than British Sea Power. In 2005, MTV in North America banned the video for their single “Please Stand Up” because of the devilishly provocative lyric “a little excitement makes us wetter.” So even as British Sea Power scores Top 40 hits across the pond, in the US they continue to toil in semi-obscurity, registering somewhere between British brethren Bloc Party...
...boring the listener. Large differences between track lengths (“While We Wait” is only one and a half minutes, while others hover between two and five minutes) do create a feeling of spontaneity, but this alone is not enough to make his sixth studio album stand out from the rest of the corpus. —Reviewer Eric M. Sefton can be reached at esefton@fas.harvard.edu...
...most fascinating installations is the 1998 piece “Kindergarten Antonio Sant’Elia.” For the piece, Claerbout selected a black-and-white photograph from the early 1930s portraying the opening of a kindergarten in Italy. In the original photograph, children, frozen in time, stand in a garden with two trees in their midst. But Claerbout replaced the still trees with superimposed footage of two trees gently blowing in the wind, creating a striking clash between the still and the moving that is made even more powerful by its reversal of real life, in which...
Musen added that audiences might not be familiar with the whole plot of plays from which the scenes came, but he said he thought the scenes chosen could stand alone...