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Goodbye Mr. Natkin, And Goodbye Morgan Lehman Gallery
The Art Scene: Leon Graham
September, 02, 2010
Make no mistake. Robert Natkin, who died last April in Danbury, was an important painter. Anyone whose work roused the ire of Hilton Kramer, the country’s leading conservative art critic, and the admiration of Robert Hughes, Time magazine’s hugely
Ohlsson Celebrates Chopin
The Music Scene: Donald Sosin
September, 02, 2010
Pianist Garrick Ohlsson continued his year-long celebration of Chopin’s 200th birthday with a pair of recitals at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall that cemented his status as the finest pianist on the concert stage today. His flawless technique, coupled with a keen
Where Did Colonel Kilgore Go?
Movies: ‘Get Low’ – Fred Baumgarten
September, 02, 2010
Robert Duvall’s “Get Low” is an interesting project, and we’ve come to expect nothing less from this actor who stars in and co-produced the movie.
Supposedly based on a true story, it tells the tale of a
No Gimmicks Needed
The Dance Scene: Jenny Hansell
September, 02, 2010
A fine season at Jacob’s Pillow’s dance festival closes with two premieres, dramatic lighting and, finally, some mesmerizing choreography.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival drew the curtain on an excellent season with a fine, if subdued, performance by Hubbard Street
Riding The Sky
People: Willie Simon – Marsden Epworth
September, 02, 2010
Willie Simon is just like his name: plain, open, regular.
He’s a likable guy, a 46-year-old auto mechanic with a wife, three children.
And an airplane.
A chunk of the six-plus acres he rents on Housatonic River
Cries in the Dark
Theater: ‘ Lady of Letters’ – Marsden Epworth
September, 02, 2010
She is severe, in the way unnecessary English spinsters of uncertain means and iffy social positions can be.
After all, she knows what’s right.
And what’s not.
Leda Hodgson plays Miss Ruddock (she stopped being Irene when
Hard to watch, with some rewards
Movies: ‘The Girl Who Played With Fire’ - Jenny Hansell
August, 26, 2010
Probably only a part-time movie reviewer would go to “The Girl Who Played with Fire” without having seen or read anything about the popular series by Stieg Larrson. Based on my unscientific sampling, everyone else in the audience had read
Arresting Art In Salisbury
The Art Scene - Leon Graham
August, 26, 2010
Jack Piccolo is an advertising man. For nearly 20 years he was an art director at fabled Doyle Dane Bernbach, the most famous and creative advertising agency of the second half of the 20th Century. (When Bill Bernbach died in
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