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Exhibit of the week: The Anniversary Show
feature To celebrate its 75th anniversary, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has undertaken a radical reinstallation of its collection.
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Exhibit of the week: James Castle: A Retrospective
feature The first major retrospective exhibit of James Castle's work may establish him as the ultimate “outsider artist.”
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Opera: The Barber of Seville
feature Led by Juan Diego Flórez and Joyce DiDonato, the Los Angeles Opera’s Barber of Seville delivers laughs plus a little “something extra.”
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Theater: Aunt Dan and Lemon
feature Aunt Dan and Lemon gets “just the kind of carefully ambivalent yet wholly immersive handling it needs” from director Matthew Reeder, said Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune.
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Susan Rothenberg: Moving in Place
feature The 25 paintings at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth show how Rothenberg developed her unique aesthetic.
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Stage: Oh, Coward!
feature For those who’ve forgotten “what an original voice” Coward was, Oh, Coward! is an excellent reminder, said Dennis Polkow in Newcity Chicago.
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Exhibit of the week: Damían Ortega: Do It Yourself
feature The centerpiece of the Damian Ortega retrospective at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art is a dismantled Volkswagen Beetle suspended from the ceiling.
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Exhibit of the week: Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
feature The Getty Center exhibition shows how experts go about distinguishing drawings by Rembrandt from those created by his pupils and apprentices.
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Guillermo Kuitca: Everything
feature The Miami Art Museum's “outstanding retrospective” of works by Guillermo Kuitca shows the artist's paintings as well as his work as an international stage-production designer.
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Stage: Palestine, New Mexico
feature The play contains kernels of several interesting ideas, but raises questions that remain unanswered.
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Stage: A Little Night Music
feature The first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's sex farce stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as the declining ingénue and Angela Lansbury as her “acerbic” mother.
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Exhibit of the week: Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts From Britain to Chicago
feature An exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago traces the history of the Arts and Crafts movements in Britain and the U.S. by bringing together rarely shown masterpieces.
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Opera: Carmen
feature Richard Eyre's successful reimagining of Carmen was a risky undertaking given the reaction of the Met's patrons to the changes Luc Bondy made in Tosca.
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Stage: Race
feature Though Race has all the usual Mamet ingredients—a hot-button social issue, barbed one-liners, a corkscrew of a plot—the play is a bit hollow at the center.
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