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‘Sabbath’s Theater’ Review: John Turturro’s Flailing, Philandering Odyssey
9Nov By adminNo Comments
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‘Sabbath’s Theater’ Review: John Turturro’s Flailing, Philandering Odyssey

New YorkFlaccid is perhaps the most damning word one could conjure to describe the New Group adaptation of Philip Roth’s acclaimed novel “Sabbath’s Theater.” Its protagonist—the disgraced puppeteer Mickey Sabbath, played by John Turturro—is among the most lunatically lecherous characters in fiction. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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‘Henry Taylor: B Side’ Review: A Contemporary Brush With Genius
8Nov By adminNo Comments
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‘Henry Taylor: B Side’ Review: A Contemporary Brush With Genius

New YorkIt’s a simple thing, an exhibition of paintings. For all the curators, academics, gallerists, advisers, collectors and—yes—critics who might play a role in a painting’s life, it is, at the end, the most approachable of forms: An artist has an idea, tries to put it down on canvas, and you look at it. This straightforwardness may be one reason shows like “Henry Taylor: B Side” are so rare: There’s little room for the artist to hide. Now, viewers have become accustomed to any large solo exhibition of a contemporary artist at a major museum including all sorts of accouterments. Happenings. Activations. Immersions. Experiences. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 29
29Oct By adminNo Comments
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Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 29

By WSJ Arts in Review Staff Film• “What Happens Later” (Nov. 3): Meg Ryan is in the director’s chair for only the second time in her career, helming this romcom. She also stars alongside David Duchovny as a pair of exes who bump into each other at the airport and reconnect after a flight delay.  • “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” (Nov. 3): The beauty and hardships of growing up black in rural Mississippi are explored in Raven Jackson’s debut feature, which follows a girl from youth to adulthood. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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‘Frans Hals’ Review: A Painter’s Soaring Portraiture
28Oct By adminNo Comments
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‘Frans Hals’ Review: A Painter’s Soaring Portraiture

LondonFollowing on the heels of last spring’s Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam, “Frans Hals” at the National Gallery here celebrates another Dutch artist (1582/84-1666) whose critically neglected work was rediscovered by 19th-century French scholars and painters. Together with Rembrandt, the triumvirate would define Golden Age painting in the Netherlands. This show of 51 paintings, organized by Bart Cornelis, the museum’s curator of Dutch and Flemish Paintings 1600-1800, is the first major exhibition devoted to the artist in decades. Though not as well-known as the art of his two contemporaries, Hals’s incomparable work—its unfeigned naturalism, ebullient brushwork and sanguine vision of quotidian life in the 17th-century Dutch republic—would captivate Courbet, Manet, Van Gogh and other mo...
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‘Don’t Look Now’: The Horror of Grief
27Oct By adminNo Comments
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‘Don’t Look Now’: The Horror of Grief

Though based on a Daphne du Maurier story of the same name, the film “Don’t Look Now” begins with a prologue all its own—one that moves, in the course of a few minutes and with an astonishing sense of visual poetry, from the ethereal to the brutally real.At the start, a young girl in a scarlet raincoat traipses across the grass of an English country house as a white horse gallops past, as if out of a vision or a child’s make-believe. At the end, reaching for a ball, she falls into a pond and drowns while her father rushes out to her, seemingly subject to some unspoken warning of the calamity. This last sequence proceeds with haunting precision: first the girl submerged, then the silence of her father’s sprint to the pond, then an inhale before the plunge and, seconds later, his awful, ine...
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Bach’s Solo Organ Spectacular – WSJ
20Oct By adminNo Comments
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Bach’s Solo Organ Spectacular – WSJ

Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, Bach’s fame derived less from his compositions than from his being, according to his obituary, “The World Famous Organist” who could “play with his two feet on the pedals what others would find bitter enough to play with five fingers.” Though his thundering “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” (BWV 565) remains one of his most popular pieces, Bach also created intimately scaled wonders that exploit the more delicate timbres of the “King of Instruments.”Such are the “Six Trio Sonatas for Organ” (BWV 525-530), Bach’s trail-blazing treasures of transparency and charm, capable of enchanting both perform...
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