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'if'...
Thoughts, wrote Nietzsche, are shadows of our feelings: always darker, emptier, and simpler than these. And the written word, it strikes me, is but a shadow of our thoughts.

Friday, September 27, 2002

Wide-Eyed in a Fun House.

Walking around the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris is like falling down a hole into Wonderland. By Wendy Moonan. [New York Times: Arts]

9:07:05 PM

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Modernism Gets a Revolutionary Makeover in Iran.

"Between Word and Image: Modern Iranian Visual Culture," a spartan-looking exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery, is about creative borrowing and customized versions of modernism. By Holland Cotter. [New York Times: Arts]

9:04:30 PM

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Images That Burn Into the Mind. Richard Avedon's portrait show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a pitch-perfect mix of prints, each an exquisitely made object. By Michael Kimmelman. [New York Times: Arts]

Timeless Themes, Suddenly Timely. "Going Forth by Day," 35-minute video work by Bill Viola on view at the Guggenheim Museum, is an ambitious meditation on the epic themes of human existence. By Grace Glueck. [New York Times: Arts]

8:59:12 PM

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Proust wrote: "The only true voyage of discovery, the only really rejuvenating experience would not be to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees."

"In everyday life 'if' is an evasion, in the theatre 'if' is the truth. In everyday life 'if' is a fiction, in the theatre 'if' is an experiment." Peter Brook -- The Empty Space

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