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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Pare’s symphonic photographs (on view at MoMA through October in The Lost Vanguard) celebrate the short-lived Russian experiment in modernist architecture and its utopian dream.
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The filmmakers emailed between London and Brussels, comparing notes on their working process, the high emotion of beginning a shot, and the theory underlying their projects, from anthropology and psychoanalysis to cinema verité.
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Through the protagonist of his long-awaited first novel, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Díaz weaves an epic tale of Trujillo’s Dominican Republic and its diaspora, complete with sci-fi metaphors.
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David Malouf is Australia’s preeminent author. Knopf just released The Complete Stories, his astonishing collection that spans the 20th century. Colm Tóibín queries Malouf on the casualties of war and the dual nature of Australia’s history.
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Filmed in Sicily, Small Boats completes the trilogy Cast No Shadow (commissioned by PERFORMA 07). The two directors speak about migration, transition, and fallen angels.
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With performers ranging in age from 72 to 88, Young @ Heart bridges the gap between modern and genuinely old school.
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Quirky DIY popster R. Stevie Moore has recorded over 400 albums—most of them by himself, at home—since the ’60s. Shrigley Field, the album he recorded in response to David Shrigley’s book Worried Noodles, is available now.
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Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar have compressed dance and theater into their own spectacular hybrid. The Other Here is running at the Dance Theater Workshop through September 29.
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Winter Miller accompanied Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nicholas Kristof to Chad, interviewing refugees from the Darfur genocide. The result: her stark, highly emotional play In Darfur.
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As a child, Doig lived in Trinidad; he relocated there in 2000, followed soon after by Ofili. The old friends, both painters, met to discuss how a place and its history reinvents subject.
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