‘Retreating with disgust is not the same as apathy’. So says one of the peripheral characters in Richard Linklater’s 1991 film, Slacker. This statement rings true for several of the artists involved in Take The Bassa With Sababa, an exhibition of Israeli comics and graphic novels, and for me as a curator it certainly hits [...]
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May
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Mar
In multiple art forms, modernism gave rise to a tidal wave of liberation
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Most histories of modernism trace its development through one art form.
The beauty of %26quot;Modernism: The Lure of Heresy%26quot; lies in Peter Gay’s detailing, in his first 100 pages, of the ways in which the tidal wave of artistic freedom and change surging through the past century swept all the arts before it.
Gay roots this [...]
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Feb
TORONTO — The legendary Hercules may be one powerful character, but he’s about to get blown out of the water — ever so gently, mind you — by a good-natured cowpoke and a high-tech space ranger.
Disney Cruise Line has featured a Broadway-style stage show called “Hercules: The Muse-ical” as part of the live entertainment lineup [...]
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Jan
Cuba has one of the coolest, most easily identifiable images of any travel destination: the shiny 1950s Cadillacs, salsa-ing mulattas, the Buena Vista Social Club, and what the travel writer Pico Iyer described as “the ramshackle glamour of an abandoned stage set” are instantly recognisable, even to those who have never been. So successful is [...]
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