by Phyllis Tuchman
MARCH 4, 2010 TAGS:
John the Fearless’ carved mourners express grief for the ages. continue >
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MINDING THE MEMORY Literary estates shape artists’ legacies, for good or ill. continue >
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THE PLEASURES OF DOUBT Photographer Larry Sultan reveled in ambiguity. continue >
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DEATH AT SUNDANCE Of the 272 features, shorts, pieces of performance art and musical programs that comprise the Sundance Film Festival, death inserts itself as a surprisingly current theme. Here’s a look at a few films that examine mortality, the afterlife and passing on in novel and interesting ways continue >
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DEATH AND ART IN THE BLOGOSPHERE We deal with mortality through the art of language, pictures, conversation, song, invention and more. Here’s a sampling of stories and blog posts in which various forms of artistic expression touch upon death, transition, loss and memory.
-As her son struggled to survive after being pulled from a swimming pool, a Florida mother twittered his condition and subsequent death. This provoked a firestorm of opinion. continue > |
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LIFE AFTER DEATH Peter Jackson's surreal spin on The Lovely Bones continue >
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SAYING GOODBYE The Oscar-winning Departures shows the comfort of ritual, for the dead and the living. continue >
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THE BAUHAUS, UNEXPURGATED A show of "Modernity" offers an elegy to the past. continue >
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