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Take Five: Molly Right’s Bottle Cap Portraits
During the summer of 1973, in Charleston, South Carolina, a 10-year-old Molly B. Right started scavenging bottle caps from the streets where she lived. One day, she set her sights on something bigger — the...
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Take Five: Taking a Look inside Artist Scott Smith’s Christmas Workshop
A Santa who is donning a white hat while dancing in snow together with a jolly snowman, with a broom in hand and a top hat on his head, as well as Krampus (a devil-like creature derived from European folklore and...
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Artist of the Week 12/23-12/30: Simen Johan Captures Reality and Fantasy through Animals
In one of Norwegian artist Simen Johan’s most striking photographs, a pair of carrot-colored foxes sits together. Their bodies twist toward each other like those of lovers and their eyes droop down dreamily. These...
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‘Le Jazz Hot, How the French Saved Jazz’ Is a Passionate Musical Affair
When we think of France, love and wine come to mind, but jazz? To paraphrase an old American standard, “You can’t take that away from the good ol’ U.S.A.!” Well, think again. In Le Jazz Hot, How the French...
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Grandiose Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia: A Celebration of the Living and the Dead
Though Moscow may be home to more billionaires than any other city on earth, this has not translated into clout in the fashion world as a trendsetting center of style. Famous designers still prefer to operate out of New... -
Beckett’s ‘All That Fall’ Rises Again
What first greets the eye in Samuel Beckett’s radio play, All That Fall, currently playing at 59E59 Theatre, is the sparseness of the whole enterprise. Seven mics are suspended from the rafters, and an unsightly...
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Jumbo-Sized Jakarta Fashion Week Struts to Success
Fashion is big business in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian nation that is home to more than 200 million people. How big, you ask? Try employing more than three million people and contributing some $15 billion to the... -
Bringing Joplin Back: A Little Piece of Janis’ Heart
The ’60s were raw, urgent years, indicting form in favor of free expression, and with independent cultural eruptions on every corner, from bucolic college campuses to the dark depths of inner cities. Trying to...
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Artist of the Week 11/6-11/12: A Photographer Apart: Ben Marcin Captures What Might Be the Last Documentation of Lone Structures across the North East
“It is like looking at an old person and just knowing that she was a beauty in her 20s or 30s,” photographer Ben Marcin explains... -
Artist of the Week 10/30-11/05: The Curious Stories of Scott Smith’s Handmade Treasures
For most of us Halloween comes once a year, but for artist Scott Smith, Halloween is an everyday event.
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