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Stage Designs by Ming Cho Lee

Super Models

Long ago, a titan of theater toyed with the notion that “all the world’s a stage,” but what about the inverse? “All the stage is a world,” more naturally said,...

Super Models

Long ago, a titan of theater toyed with the notion that “all the world’s a stage,” but what about the inverse? “All the stage is a world,” more naturally said,...

Heat Included

Heat Included

Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, dramatizing the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. David Černý’s vandalism-as-art pink Soviet tank in the center of Prague. Barbara Kruger’s textual collages and photographs, like Untitled...

Heat Included

Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, dramatizing the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. David Černý’s vandalism-as-art pink Soviet tank in the center of Prague. Barbara Kruger’s textual collages and photographs, like Untitled...

Précis du Système Hiéroglyphique des Anciens

See and B.C.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt threatened ancient monuments and artifacts along the banks of the Nile River with flooding. The...

See and B.C.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt threatened ancient monuments and artifacts along the banks of the Nile River with flooding. The...

Text from Alice Mattison’s The Wedding of the Two-Headed Woman

Plot Points

Placing Literature, which announced itself to the public during New Haven’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas this past summer, provides a novel service. It allows you to take scenes...

Plot Points

Placing Literature, which announced itself to the public during New Haven’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas this past summer, provides a novel service. It allows you to take scenes...

Frame Jobs

Frame Jobs

For Gabriel Da Silva (pictured right), co-owner of the Frame Shop and Westville Gallery with his wife, Inger (center), as well as the Da Silva Gallery next door, framing isn’t...

Frame Jobs

For Gabriel Da Silva (pictured right), co-owner of the Frame Shop and Westville Gallery with his wife, Inger (center), as well as the Da Silva Gallery next door, framing isn’t...

Chris Meyers and Esau Pritchett in Fences

Heavy Hitter

In playwright August Wilson’s impressive ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle,” or “Century Cycle,” he set each play in a different decade of the twentieth century, all in his hometown, Pittsburgh. Wilson could...

Heavy Hitter

In playwright August Wilson’s impressive ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle,” or “Century Cycle,” he set each play in a different decade of the twentieth century, all in his hometown, Pittsburgh. Wilson could...