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John Bailey's Bailiwick
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John Bailey's thoughts on cinematography and artistic expression
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John Cage: A Juilliard Centennial
In January, 1960 the top rated CBS television game show I’ve Got a Secret featured one of its most unusual celebrity guests. Crew cut, bow-tied, genial host Garry Moore introduced a lanky, tall man in a dark suit. His name was John Cage and Moore called him, “probably one of...
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Jean Tinguely: “A Magic Stronger Than Death”
Shortly after the staged event ended in a tangle of crushed metal and hot ashes, with smoke and steam still rising from the charred ruins, one woman spectator claimed it was a major success. “It was like being in the Twenties again,” she enthused. New York Times art critic John...
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Flannery O’Connor: Andalusia in Milledgeville
“Lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.” This may have been Flannery O’ Connor’s terse judgment on the constricted confines of her family home, Andalusia, a few miles north of the Georgia town of Milledgeville. But in a small bedroom of that house, at...
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Raymond Cauchetier’s New Wave Photos at AMPAS
He’s a world traveler who photographed the monumental ruins of the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia as well as hundreds of Romanesque church tympana and sculptures from Norway to Coptic Egypt—but Raymond Cauchetier lives in the same apartment in Paris’ 12th arrondissement where he was born in 1920. He...
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The Strandbeests of Theo Jansen
They glide over the smooth, damp sands at the tide line like endoskeletons of some Jurassic raptor. Their creator, an obsessive yet whimsical Dutchman named Theo Jansen hovers over them like a cautious parent at his child’s first bicycle ride. And dogging Jansen’s own heels is his omnipresent Coton de...
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