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...Museum of Fine Arts seems to think that American Folk Art is indeed worthy of museum space with its newest attempt at a blockbuster exhibit, “American Folk,” a collection of late eighteenth to early twentieth century folk art that comprises a broadly categorized melange of everything from cabinets to hunting decoys. About a hundred and twenty years ago, the founders of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) would have laughed at the idea of curating something so banal as what could be made by an amateur in the home, whose creation was intended...
...Phyllis Anderson Prize-winning play by Michael M. Ragozzino ’01, is rather unlikely. It turns out that there is only one mind behind all of the “great” (or even merely good) artistic works of the twentieth century. Picasso? Gershwin? Hemingway? Updike? The list goes on and on, and all of their work was actually produced by one Scott Anderson, who will die on his 183rd birthday. (The longevity is hereditary, but not in the way you think...
...Festival Chorus sang their wordless parts too directly and without the distance sometimes required in this music. Haitink conducted effortlessly, and took the final “Danse Generale” at a brisk, exciting tempo, which proved to be very effective. This was programming at its best: two twentieth century repertoire staples performed by an orchestra whose links to both works have only become stronger over time...
About twenty students entered the contest with speeches ranging from Cato to Medieval Latin to Elizabethan drama to twentieth century English poetry and prose. Approximately half a dozen entries were in Latin, according to Engell. "There was quite a wide variety in all," Engell says...
...Gilbert, on the other hand, has begun an entirely new story with no characters from before. "Julio's Day," promises Gilbert, will follow Julio from cradle to grave as he lives his life for the 100 years of the twentieth century. In the first issue Julio arrives in a small, presumably Mexican village, only to be tossed in a ditch by his uncle...