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July 2008
Branding: logos, slogans, trademark colors and patterns, and all the happy little ditties used in advertising, clamor for our attention but exist only to be remembered...
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June 2008
Step closer, and the mood abruptly changes. Seen individually, the graphic works are joyful, even if the room is oppressive. The uneasy shape of this half of the exhibit seems to urge the viewer to ignore context, forget function, to see the objects for themselves.
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May 2008
All of which is to say that the work of the Argentine-American Osvaldo Golijov is not only astonishing for his imaginative abilities as a composer, but feels exactly right as a style for opera in an internationalized world that must come to grips with its recent past and complicated present...
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May 2008
Conder subtly
pokes fun at power struggles and corporate
politics while the three performers not-so-subtly
manipulate the space and each other...
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May 2008
Nothing really happens in most of Danowski’s plays, though they almost always involve a couple who can’t figure out why they are with each other, even if they are having a good time, and why the larger schemes of the universe (hauntings, political revolutions, mythical figures, idiotic commentators) are creeping up on them and infecting their days...
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May 2008
On an unusually cold and rainy afternoon in the middle of May, I met with artist Edna Dapo in her studio at the Phoenix Center for the Arts. She brought out painting after painting from the back room, as well as a portfolio of etchings, until we were surrounded by her artworks...
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April 2008
Chris Santa Maria's current paintings appear from a distance to be perhaps photographs of painstakingly made and colored mannequins or figurines. The gaze of the subject comes flatly at the viewer without expression, only the lines made on the face from a lifetime of laughing or scowling giving a hint of expression.
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