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A Colorful Romance in “First Love”

A Colorful Romance in “First Love”

First Love, currently playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre, takes place in the surrealist world of Magritte, where a young woman (a magnetic Taylor Harvey) wears a top hat that appears in many of the Belgian painter’s pieces and smokes a pipe reminiscent of the one featured in “The treachery of images.” But a background in art history isn’t necessary […]

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The Mystery of the Ordinary

The Mystery of the Ordinary

Most of us associate surrealism with Salvador Dali, and rightly so. However, there is another extraordinary artist involved in the surrealism movement during the 20th century. René Magritte is a Belgian born artist whose works were both thought provoking and amusing. The Museum of Modern Art is currently displaying an amazing exhibit titled Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, which […]

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