Should abstract art clarify the abstraction so that audiences can cohere it into some sort of comprehensible whole?
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Author: Steven Strauss
In Good Company
Lyrics can be open to multiple interpretations that change their meaning.
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Terry O’Quinn It
I strive to know as little as possible about a piece of art before imbibing.
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Toils and Troubles
Remember when two different theater companies simultaneously decided to stage (restage?) James Baldwin and William Buckley’s 1965 debate?
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High and Low
A window into how my brain works:
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First Person Plural
Unpopular take:
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Stay Up
Remember my obsession with the corporeal simplicity of The Ocean at the End of the Lane’s final image?
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An Endlessly Strange, Strangely Endless Loop
The key to my interpretation of A Case for the Existence of God’s ending:
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Case Made
When there’s nary an obvious mention of God in a play titled A Case for the Existence of God, what represents the play’s titular deity is open to interpretation.
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All About the BenjaHows
Apropos of nothing, and everything:
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