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Radiant Blobs: Ken Price's Carnal Clay

The brilliant ceramicist Ken Price was born in West Hollywood in 1935 and died last year in Taos, New Mexico. Too late (but not with too little), the Met is hosting his first New York museum retrospective. There are many theories as to why our basti...

by R. C. Baker on July 10, 2013
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Damon Albarn Deploys Gorillaz Tactics in Monkey: Journey to the West

Recently, the Lincoln Center Festival sent factions of publicists to Flushing malls and indie comedy venues, attempting to draw both Chinese-Americans and hipsters to Monkey: Journey to the West. They have met with much success, both with these demo...

by Alexis Soloski on July 10, 2013
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Game Play: Celebrating Video Games Onstage

Game Play, the festival that runs through the end of the month at the Brick Theater, is billed as "a celebration of video game performance art." The plays and events explore the relationship between technology and its users and between players and t...

by Linda Leseman on July 10, 2013
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She-Hulk and X-Man Chick Lit Novels Are Better Than Superhero Movies

Superheroes are bigger than comic books, so now they're in movies--all movies, it seems, forever, no matter what. But in another sense they're bigger than movies, too. Over decades of serial storytelling, their histories have swelled, their key trai...

by Alan Scherstuhl on July 3, 2013
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Grisaille Vaginas and Saturated Sunsets - In the Pink

Ah, summertime, when a gallery-goer's fancy turns to . . . group shows. "Sunsets and Pussy" (Marianne Boesky Gallery) focuses on two time-honored summer pastimes, envisioned by four artists from three generations. The youngest, Lucien Smith (b. 1...

by R. C. Baker on July 3, 2013
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A Singing Group Strives for Harmony in Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy

We sing to celebrate, we sing to mourn. We sing for comfort, for grace, to set ourselves apart and to merge with others. These myriad uses of music all inform Choir Boy, Tarell Alvin McCraney's lyrical new play at Manhattan Theatre Club, which is at...

by Alexis Soloski on July 3, 2013
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An Ex-Con Learns You Can't Go Home Again in The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin

The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin (Roundabout Theatre Company) is not, as the title suggests, a clever Irish play, but a flatly earnest American one. Competent and occasionally provocative, the drama could serve as playwright Steven Levens...

by James Hannaham on July 3, 2013
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Q&A: Susan Choi Talks My Education and Getting a Little Help From Her Friends Jennifer Egan and Jhumpa Lahiri

Susan Choi's fourth novel, My Education, is an erotic, sharply written tale of a young graduate student, Regina Gottlieb, who finds herself drawn to the devilishly handsome Professor Nicholas Brodeur, a man notorious on campus for seducing his stude...

by Angela Ashman on July 3, 2013
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Rantoul and Die: Filthy Couch Comedy

The last Amoralists show I saw, Happy in the Poorhouse, was so shrill that I avenged myself by writing the review in all caps. Therefore, I had expectations lower than the Marianas Trench for Rantoul and Die, another of the group's forays into filth...

by James Hannaham on June 26, 2013
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Memory Can Be a Sticky Swamp in La Brea

Like the famous tar pits, Gregory S. Moss's La Brea--directed by Adam Greenfield, part of Clubbed Thumb's 2013 Summerworks series--reminds us that memory can be a sticky swamp. And if you're not careful, it might swallow you. Leah (Rebecca Hender...

by Jacob Gallagher-Ross on June 26, 2013
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The Comedy of Errors Serves Up Midcentury Mayhem; The Explorers Club Doesn't Discover Much

What lies along the bus route from Syracuse to Schenectady? In the Public Theater's cheerful Comedy of Errors--now playing in Central Park--it's Ephesus, town of endlessly confused identities, cigar-puffing mafiosi, and the occasional flying baloney...

by Miriam Felton-Dansky on June 26, 2013
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'EXPO 1' Imagines the End Times--And Does Nothing to Stop Them

The question is not so much if "EXPO 1: New York," a multi-site exhibition, is engaging, but rather if it is pointless. It aims to present a "darkly optimistic" view of the 21st century, which the organizers purport has been marked by ecological dis...

by Brienne Walsh on June 26, 2013
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation Takes on Art, Money, and the Fame Game

"It's up to artists to make the art world they want." On the Acela Express from Penn Station to Providence, Rhode Island, with two members of The Bruce High Quality Foundation, it suddenly feels like the sealed windows are thrown open and a gust o...

by Christian Viveros-Faune on June 26, 2013
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Laurel Nakadate: Strangers and Relations

For a young artist whose past works include videos of herself dancing in her underwear with middle-aged men who have picked her up in parking lots, Laurel Nakadate's current exhibition, "Strangers and Relations," is uncharacteristically un-polarizi...

by Brienne Walsh on June 19, 2013
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Reasons to Be Happy, in Which Neil LaBute May Hate Inanimate Objects

A box of ice cream sandwiches suffers a vicious assault in Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy, produced by MCC. As does a vending machine, a sports trophy, a microwave, a purse, and a cinnamon roll. Does LaBute hate inanimate objects? Possibly. But ...

by Alexis Soloski on June 19, 2013
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Venice Unites Rap and Shakespeare, Shakily

Composer-lyricist Matt Sax loves hip-hop. He also loves Shakespeare. These enthusiasms unite--not always smoothly--in Venice, a rap and pop musical loosely tied to the tragedy of Othello, but more concerned with post-9/11 America. A terrorist...

by Alexis Soloski on June 19, 2013
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A Kid Like Jake Is Enough to Make a Well-meaning Family Implode

Forget potty-training, teenage drama, and the SATs: as any discerning New York parent knows, the trickiest part of child-rearing is getting your offspring into the elite kindergarten of your choice. The interviews, the coaching, the tests: in A Kid...

by Miriam Felton-Dansky on June 19, 2013
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Roadkill Places Its Audience in Perilous Proximity to its Violations

Are you sitting comfortably? Then you are not attending Cora Bissett's Roadkill, a site-specific screed against human trafficking produced by St. Ann's Warehouse, in which attendees share a minibus bound for a Clinton Hill rowhouse with an excitabl...

by Alexis Soloski on June 19, 2013
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman in Sontag: Reborn

Few people who read Susan Sontag's work--essays, fiction, nonfiction, plays--feel lukewarm about it. The polarizing cultural critic's proclivity for using her vast breadth of knowledge to make bold, grand assertions (sometimes bypassing explanation)...

by Linda Leseman on June 19, 2013
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Lively Speech Buoys Somewhere Fun

The playwright Jenny Schwartz savors words the way a more indolent person might gorge on bonbons--delighting in language's sound, shape, and scrumptious connotations. In Somewhere Fun, the dreamlike three-act play at the Vineyard, even the character...

by Alexis Soloski on June 12, 2013