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		<title>Seeking Solitude in Venice</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/10/venice-tourism-billboard-grimani-querini-stampalia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Miller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fondazione Querini Stampalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giorgio Orsoni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giorgione]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giulia Lama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palazzo Grimani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[porn star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pornography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pornostar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S. J. Freedberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S. Maria Formosa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suovetaurlia Relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice ads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vittoria Risi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vittorio Sgarbi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's been some years since I've been in Venice, and I found the state of the Piazza S. Marco disturbing. I was appalled by the huge ads for clothing and champagne which dominated both the Piazza and the Piazzetta — now the subject of a formal protest published in the Art Newspaper ("Ads of Sighs," The Art Newspaper, Friday, October 8, 2010), to which the mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, has given a reply worthy of Glenn Beck]]></description>
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		<title>The View from Usher Hall, Edinburgh</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/08/usher-hall-edinburgh-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[At the Edinburgh Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleveland Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh International Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[franz Welser-Möst]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our first Edinburgh Festival and our first visit to Usher Hall opened with a delightful surprise. We didn’t have to get very far into Mozart’s Idomeneo for me to realize that the acoustics of the hall are surpassingly beautiful. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, playing period instruments, and the singers floated in a warm acoustic atmosphere, but the sound was also direct and present, so that the attacks of strings and brass and the fleeting nuances of the human voice were as clear as you could want them to be. Our seats were also several rows in the Grand Circle and well covered by the level above. In most halls the sound becomes rather muffled in that kind of situation, but, when I noticed that I was surrounded by fellow critics, I assumed that the Festival media representatives knew what they were doing. More importantly I loved what I heard.]]></description>
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		<title>A Note from Bayreuth</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/08/a-note-from-bayreuth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[At the Bayreuth Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wagner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bayreuther Festspiele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Der Ring des NIbelungen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eva Wagner-Pasquier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katharina Wagner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parsifal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Wagner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Charles Mackerras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stefan Herheim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tankred Dorst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wieland Wagner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had originally planned this commentary simply to let you, our readers, know about the changes in our usual coverage for the remainder of the summer: Larry Wallach, Seth Lachterman, and Keith Kibler will bravely continue their coverage of summer festivals in the Berkshires and Hudson Valley, while I visit Bayreuth, to review the entire 2010 season: Tankred Dorst's production of the Ring, along with the controversial productions of Parsifal (Stefan Herheim, 2008), Die Meistersinger (Katharina Wagner, 2007), and Lohengrin (Hans Neuenfels, 2010). I left my rat-catching gear at home, not wishing to incur overweight charges and thinking it might be cheaper simply to purchase the necessaries here, but all the ratting supply stores in Bayreuth are sold out of equipment, and I realize that I simply have to remain unrattled, while the rodents run free.]]></description>
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		<title>Changes and Passages</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/06/changes-and-passages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Achim Freyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthora Coffee Cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fabio Luisi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gallery at Hallmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Smokes BBQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonas Alber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LA Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Lepage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tepper Galleries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As sundry acts of God and man are manifested, unexpected changes, substitutions, and permanent transitions abound.

I can’t resist beginning on a happy note: The Berkshire Review for the Arts has exceeded 1,000,000 hits  in a month. The numbers game is not our priority here at The Review, but a million is a significant and symbolic number in the esoteric world of Internet traffic statistics.]]></description>
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		<title>Travel</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/04/opera-concerts-exhibitions-muenchen-dresden-paris-italy/</link>
		<comments>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/04/opera-concerts-exhibitions-muenchen-dresden-paris-italy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Miller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[artists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dresden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muenchen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman Douglas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The only real way to travel is to travel aimlessly, without a destination, purpose, or agenda. One should have only the vaguest, dreamiest intuition that the country travelled may be of interest. Once, when I was still working as a curator, my then wife and I went on holiday to a Central American country, largely because it lacked a museum, or at least a museum that would prove irresistible to either of us. We were mostly likely wrong in that assumption, but I can't say, because we never visited the museum. Neither did we visit the capital city's renowned German restaurant, nor did we indulge a weakness for souvenirs, although we did seriously discuss the adoption of a small mutt, who decided to follow us on a late night stroll through a port city.]]></description>
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		<title>Sitting under the piano&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/02/sitting-under-the-piano/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Kibler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Singer's Notes by Keith Kibler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piano]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is a dark object that keeps its softness, a ponderous roof, and a gentle.  When you sit under the piano, you must be small. From there the world is a theatre.  You watch unobserved, the darkness is a cushion, the piano is a mother.  Can you remember being held in its arms and looking out ? Music comes out of it. The music is always played by your mother.  Its sounds are too complex to offer a play opportunity to a child.  No questions are asked about where the music comes from.  All you can see of your mama is her feet on the pedals, and any kid knows that they don't make any music.  So where does it come from?]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Here and There&#8230; of Anthropology at Home and Abroad</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/12/anthropology-ethnography-cinema-robert-gardner-alen-macweeney/</link>
		<comments>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/12/anthropology-ethnography-cinema-robert-gardner-alen-macweeney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alen MacWeeney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ancient Athens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bronislaw Malinowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnographic film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euripides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georges Franju]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonfiction film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Gardner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ethnographic films of Robert Gardner and anthropology in general resonate quite powerfully with me, although I've hardly ever had a chance to become broadly or deeply acquainted with either. My first encounter with Gardner's Dead Birds, his best-known work, made a deep impression on me, not only because of the film itself, which was reason enough, but because of the odd circumstances in which I first discovered it.]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Collecting: Masterpiece 2010, London, with a look at Old Master Week</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/11/future-of-collecting-masterpiece-2010-london-old-master-week/</link>
		<comments>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/11/future-of-collecting-masterpiece-2010-london-old-master-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decorative arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fine arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[furniture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[objets d'art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had an extremely interesting conversation the other day with Thomas Woodham-Smith, the Director of Mallet's. He has joined with a group of other dealers in starting a new kind of collector's fair (I can't call it an art fair, since other varieties of luxury goods will be included.). Masterpiece 2010 will replace The Grosvenor House Art &#038; Antiques Fair, which took its bow earlier this year after 75 distinguished years, because it was "no longer financially viable." As the closure notice stated, "The closure of this much-loved fair, however, presents an opportunity for the trade to mount a new event commensurate with maintaining London as the centre of the art market."]]></description>
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		<title>The Berkshire Review for the Arts, now beginning its third year, thanks its readers.</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/10/berkshire-review-anniversary-commentary/</link>
		<comments>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/10/berkshire-review-anniversary-commentary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berkshire arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Polanski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[second anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer retrospective]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The summer is over. In the Berkshires it is hard to ignore the equinox. Rituals and gatherings of all sorts are everywhere, and in Williamstown a friend encountered on Spring Street, or, better, at the local food co-op, may well ask you what your plans are. But it's not about hamburgers, hot dogs, and beer.]]></description>
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		<title>On the Elgin Marbles, a Poem</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/06/on-the-elgin-marbles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acropolis Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melina Mercouri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parthenon Sculptures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Helen was not abducted, raped, by that effeminate Trojan princeling, Paris, but by a coarse Englishman, the cunning diplomat Elgin, who ran up debts, as his kind do, and sold the treasure to his Nation, greedy shopkeepers that they are, imperialists, who, once they had the girl, clothed her in an ideal beauty she never [...]]]></description>
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