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Alan Brown

About a Museum

Agnes Gund | Posted 04.16.2013 | Arts
Read More: Cranes and Serpents, Cleveland, Rafael Vinoly, The Transformer Station, David Franklin, Architecture, Cleveland Museum of Art, Alan Brown, Cleveland Museum of Art Atrium, Cma, Arts Education, Arts News
Agnes Gund

The museum thrives, I think, because of that long embedded public mission. When I visited it recently, I was struck all over again by the immediacy and urgency of providing "benefit to all the people." How, I wondered, is the mission met, today?

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'Five Dances': Fear And Art

Alan Brown | Posted 03.26.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: Gay Film, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Reed Luplau, Film, Alan Brown, Ryan Steele, Filmmaking, Dance, Dance Film, Five Dances, Five Dances Alan Brown, Alan Brown Five Dances, Dance Films, Five Dances Film, Gay Cinema, Five Dances Movie, Gay Films, Gay Voices News
Alan Brown

When I approached two of my male dancers about shooting what I envisioned as a tender but very physical love scene, I expected resistance and came prepared with a speech about my personal commitment to portraying fully formed gay characters. Alas, the speech was unnecessary.

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Gonif With the Wind

George Heymont | Posted 08.24.2012 | Arts
Read More: Private Romeo, Film, Eve Annenberg, Alan Brown, Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish, Romeo and Juliet, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

If there is one drawback to Annenberg's film it's that viewers may be torn between trying to read the rapidly changing subtitles while listening to people speaking conversational Yiddish onscreen for the first time in decades.

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