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incredible experience," says
Lieberman. "I read the Smithsonian's
archived diaries and letters written by
the pilots, then had the privilege of
being a witness for these men."
Another audio tape, Lieberman s ren-
dition of the story Joseph the Tailor, was
chosen by IBM and Good Housekeeping
magazine to be sent to every elemen-
tary school in the nation as part of
their Tell Me A Tale Celebration.
Currently, Lieberman is working on
the story behind a particular Faberge
egg for an exhibit at the Chicago Field
Museum, and he's creating a series of
stories on passenger aviation for the
National Air and Space Museum.
As one of the country's leading
tellers of Jewish tales, Lieberman was
featured in the Philadelphia Art
Museum's exhibit "A Visual
Testimony: The Vatican's Collection of
Judaica," and starred with Peter
Yarrow in the Chicago presentation of
Do-It-Yourself Chanukah.
Said the Chicago Tribune of his per-
formances, "Lieberman shakes his
imaginary pockets and you can see
hundreds of gold pieces tumble out."
But though there's been much criti-
cal praise for his work, perhaps Pioneer
Press said it best:
"With a twist of the bushy mus-
tache, a wink of the eye, a shrug of the
shoulder, a single finger or out-
stretched arms, [Syd] transforms any-
thing from family anecdotes to biblical
stories into spellbinding tales."
Adds Lieberman, somewhat humbled,
"My stuff will make you laugh."

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Storytelling Festival takes place
Saturday, Jan. 27, at Summit on
the Park, 46000 Summit
Parkway, in Canton. There is a
family performance at 1 p.m. and
a performance for adults at 7:30
p.m. In addition to Lieberman,
featured storytellers include
Corinne Stavish and Craig
Roney. Stavish specializes in
Jewish material, and tales of jus-
tice and relationships, with a
focus on stories about women.
Roney, a storytelling teacher at
Wayne State University, tells tales
from Ambrose Bierce, a Civil
War-era writer of sardonic short
stories based on themes of death
and horror.
Tickets are $3 for the family
show and $5 for the adult show.
Both can be purchased at the door,
or by calling (734) 394-5193.

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possible in the realm of painting.
"Figuratively Literal" is the first of
two exhibitions that explore the
human form in the last 40 years.
"This initial exhibition," says Rosas,
contains work based, essentially, in
classical art. But through the artist's
eye [it] manifests into vignettes of
contemporary American experience."
In addition to Katz, Desidario and
Fischel, artists to be featured include
Bo Bartlett, Gregory Gillespie, Alfred
Leslie, Nancy Mitchnick, Philip
Pearlstein, Charles Pompilius and
Carol Plyant.
"The second exhibition, presently in
conception, will display works by
artists- that reveal an expressionistic,
antic or primitive employment of the
human figure," explains Rosas. "Added
up, these two exhibitions will illustrate
a diversity of figurative art being creat-
ed by prominent artists today."
Among the large paintings on loan
from the Grandons will be Fischl's
View from the Shallows, which captures
a nude couple conversing on a beach
with two dogs nearby. The painting,
ordinarily found in the Grandons' liv-
ing room, gets its contemporary
essence from the lounge chairs on
which the people are sitting and a
modern building in the background.
Another painting that comes from
the Grandons' living room is by
Vincent Desidario. Couple presents a
bedroom scene with the artist and his
mistress. The intensity with which the
woman gazes outward draws the view-
ers' eyes inward.
A third work, Repose, is a minimalist
yet monumental rendering of a
woman's head done by Alex Katz and
placed in the couple's den. The style of
the woman's hair and what she is wear-
ing give a sense of the 20th century.
"We concentrate mostly on paint-
ings done in the '60s, '70s and '80s,"
says Grandon, who also has loaned
work to the Detroit Institute of Arts.
"I like powerful images that are intel-
lectually challenging. We believe they
don't have to be pretty to be great."

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"Figuratively Literal: Contemporary
Paintings from Metro-Detroit
Collections" will be on view Feb. 2-
March 23 at the Elaine L. Jacob
Gallery 480 W. Hancock, Detroit.
The opening reception runs 5-8
p.m. Friday, Feb. 2. Gallery hours
are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-
Fridays and 11 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Saturdays. (313) 993-7813.

