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\"The Second Mother\": Maid in Brazil
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By Laura Blum You can take a course on class and power relations in Brazil or you can see The Second Mother. Of the two, Anna Muyleart\'s stirring social drama will probably deliver more relatable insights. It will also stay with you longer. Not since The Lives of Others has a f ...
- 9.73 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Artist Paige Beeber Makes It Happen
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By Laura Blum On a recent August evening, Long Island artist Paige Beeber entered the Pine Hollow Country Club with a swarm of butterflies in her gut. She wasn\'t there to golf but rather to host her debut solo exhibition. \"I went in and said to myself, \'You\'re probably not going to sell,\' \" B ...
- 9.79 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Bonnie Schwartz: Driven by Artistic License
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By Laura Blum Artist Bonnie Schwartz calls her whimsical line \"Artistic License.\" Glinting with pop images of celebrities, logos, college mascots and car motifs, it gleefully champions manipulation for dramatic effect. But there are other reasons for the company moniker. Schwartz\'s creations are ...
- 9.83 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Long Island\'s Best 2015: The Heckscher Museum of Art Exhibits Student Works
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By Laura Blum A rare Winslow Homer tile painting, a Georgia O\'Keefe watercolor, a Man Ray rayograph -- even a 16th-century Madonna by Lucas Cranach the Elder: The Heckscher Museum of Art boasts some true gems in its permanent collection. But each year the Long Island Museum lines its hallowed hall ...
- 9.93 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Pure Bliss: Burmese Tea Leaf Salad
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Byline: Laura Blum In recent years, green tea has gained a respectable place in the American beverage market. Though who ever heard of eating the stuff? Ask the 53 million citizens of Myanmar, where tea leaf salad is a linchpin of the national diet. I sampled my first forkful as the country formerl ...
- 9.96 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Artist William Grabowski Recreates a \"Legacy\"
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By Laura Blum Nostalgia, once seen as a malady of the soul, turned chic towards the end of last century, and contemporary art has been excavating lost pasts ever since. Long Island artist and teacher William Grabowski got with the vogue by chance. Back in 2000 his mother died, leaving him with a h ...
- 9.98 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Cinematographer Robbie Ryan on Shooting \"Slow West\"
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Byline: Laura Blum A lovelorn swain leaves \"the cold shoulder\" of his native Scotland for the American frontier, where his hearthrob and her father have set up stakes. John Maclean\'s coming-of-age Western trails Jay Cavendish as he wends his way across lawless Colorado in the 1870s. A \"jack rab ...
- 10.04 years ago - By Laura Blum
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\"Peggy Guggenheim - Art Addict\": A Conversation with Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland
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By Laura Blum Peggy Guggenheim - Art Addict is directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, who has a flair for baring the eccentricities of women tastemakers. Her previous film, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, did just that for her grandmother-in-law, the famed editrix of Harper\'s Bazaar and Vogue ...
- 10.08 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Filmmaker David Gelb Dreams of the Ford Mustang and \"A Faster Horse\"
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By Laura Blum The Ford Mustang has reared up in more than 500 films -- who can forget Steve McQueen\'s wheels in Bulitt? -- but never has it enjoyed star billing. That\'s no longer the case thanks to A Faster Horse, David Gelb\'s portrait of the fabled pony car and how it\'s bred. Just as Gelb\'s ...
- 10.09 years ago - By Laura Blum
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