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Original Sin, Original Theater

Experiencing โ€œThe Humansโ€ does require some stamina, as itโ€™s a three-hour long play that often dips into follies that can drag a bit long. Yet if youโ€™re interested in theater, the influences of artโ€™s obsession with forms, Shakespeare, Wodehouse, and scatological humor wrapped around a frame of the Greek satire of Aristophanes is an intriguing experiment.

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Performa Launches a Post-National Country Pavilion Program

The worldโ€™s most famous biannual art event, the Venice Biennale, stands apart from other biennials because of its network of country-specific pavilions, discrete buildings that different countries use to show their exhibitions. Now, the Performa performance art biennial, one of the worldโ€™s more diffuse instances of the form, is launching a pavilion program that emphasizes international cooperation and โ€œinternational artists.โ€