Dafoe Returns to the Old Tale for Amateur Spirit
Piero di Cosimo, Perseus Freeing Andromeda, c. 1510–1515. Oil on panel, Uffizi Galleries, Florence. A Renaissance myth staged like popular theater, with monster, crowd, and wonder folded into the kind of pre-modern storytelling Dafoe’s program brings back into view.
Dafoe was named Artistic Director of the Theatre Department of La Biennale di Venezia on 8 July, 2024, for the 2025–2026 term. His second Biennale...
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Pina Lomb
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Renewed Interest In La Banda del Marameo, the 1968 Paratheater Troupe
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan, 1968. Performance of Il naso; photograph by Met Levi.
La Banda del Marameo began in 1968 inside Milan’s Liceo Artistico Beato Angelico, where Aldo Spoldi gathered classmates into a comic performance group built around...
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Simona Alberi
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Classical Art: Raphael Presented In Toto at Met
Raphael: Sublime Poetry. Courtesy of The Met
A preview of the most comprehensive U.S. exhibition ever dedicated to Raphael, open at the Met 29 March to 28 June.
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Marguerite de Ponty
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Anthology Film Archives To Expand
At the opening of Anthology Film Archives, November 30, 1970. Michael Chikiris, courtesy Anthology Film Archives.
A conversation with Kevin Bone, Architect, and John Mhiripiri, Executive Director, on preservation, popcorn, and the future.
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Clara MacMeekin
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