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No Doubts, But Great Painting Nonetheless
The Art Scene: Boldini at the Clark – Leon Graham
March, 18, 2010
Giovanni Boldini was the most famous portrait painter in Paris from the 1890s until the early part of the new century. But before taking up portraiture, he painted landscapes, street scenes and interiors, musicians and musical performances, even historical pieces.
Dreaming, Losing in the Great Outback
Theater: ‘Daisy in the Dreamtime’ – Marsden Epworth
March, 18, 2010
Sometimes, both combatants lose: the woman struggling to save the Australian Aborigines’ way of life, and the woman drawing these soulful people into the 20th century.
In “Daisy in the Dreamtime” the Aborigines lose, too.
But they were
Celebrating Life, Love And the Moment
Theater: ‘Rent’ – Donald Sosin
March, 18, 2010
Last month I wrote about “Falsettos,” the William Finn musical dealing with, among other things, the effects of AIDS on a seven-member extended family. In Jonathan Larson’s “Rent,” now playing at the Rhinebeck Center for the Performing Arts, the
Conspiracies, Yes, but Climax Misses
Movies: ‘The Ghost Writer’ – Patrick L. Sullivan
March, 18, 2010
Roman Polanski’s thriller “The Ghost Writer” builds and builds and builds some more — and fails to deliver.
Ewan McGregor plays “The Ghost,” hired to help a Tony Blair-like former prime minister, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) finish his tedious
Lessons Learned At Night School
Theater: ‘Mrs. Farnsworth’
March, 18, 2010
Mrs. Farnsworth is different from her fellows in a night school writing class. She wears pearls, good tweeds, a big diamond. Her raincoat is lined with blue toile de Jouy for God’s sake. And she arrived by train from
After Bach’s, Marking Chopin’s Birthday
The Music Scene: Donald Sosin
March, 11, 2010
Happy birthday to that romantic of romantics, Frederic Chopin, who was born 200 years ago this month. Music Mountain will celebrate this event with three substantial works of his, all to be heard there for the first time. The
No Losers Here In Putnam County
Theater: ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ – Marsden Epworth
March, 11, 2010
It shouldn’t work. But it does. “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is a joy.
It’s tricky because adults play the six eccentric, screwed-up middle schoolers. Easy to missfire, here, if the actors forget they are grownups and
Entering Burtonland
Movies: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ – Leon Graham
March, 11, 2010
Tim Burton doesn’t live in our world — yours and mine — nor, apparently, in Lewis Carroll’s. He lives in a gorgeous, hallucinogenic world of Gothic inspiration and saturated color, with strange and strangely dressed characters for neighbors. So why
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