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By LENA FINKEL member of the artist group
Daily Arts Writer known as "The Ten," which
formed in 1935. By 1945, his
eir lives were always success skyrocketed with
ted to become intertwined. the Guggenheim Museum
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man who 5:30 p.m. - try something he had never
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sch, Free a new medium: sculptures.
Executive Though they only formed a short
tor of period of his career, Gottlieb's
dolph and Esther Gottlieb sculptures will be expanded
lation, claimed his upon in Hirsch's lecture.
sion with Gottlieb began Hirsch will also discuss
efore their introduction. Gottlieb as a person and the
e was already very famous," things that were important to
h said. "When I was young him, in addition to his life as an
oming up, he was very well artist.

"I intend to give an overview
of his whole career and convey
who he was as a historical
figure," Hirsch said. "I'll try to
give a general understanding -
no art-speak."
Hirsch is certainly a qualified
candidate to deliver the lecture,
as he has written extensively on
the artist and even helped to set
up the foundation.
"At the time, I was an artist
myself and I wanted to use the
year (1976) to work," Hirsch
explained. "But the opportunity
was too important to walk away
from."
More than 37 years later,
Hirsch has continued to work
tirelessly as the executive
director of the foundation, even
helping to set up a grant program
for what he called "artist
emergencies." This can include
a number of catastrophic events,
like fires or floods, which may
destroy an artist's studio.
Despite working for the
foundation for so many years,
Hirsch's passion has never
waned.
"There's always some new
challenge, some new set of
circumstances for organizing
an exhibit," he said. "It's very
rewarding."

"It's edgier if we're all looking different ways, trust me."
KiXngso eon remains
unexceptional on 'Bull'


By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
DailyArts Writer
Don't worry if you forgot about
Kings of Leon - most of us did. So,
with the release of the band's sixth
studio album, Mechanical Bull, on
Sept. 24, a quick
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family - the
literal sons RCA
and nephew
of a preacher man - spent much
of the early 2000s as garage
rock's southern darlings before
achieving colossal commercial
success on their stadium-friendly
fourth album, Only By Night. After
two years as unprecedented rock
gods, they released the mediocre
Come Around Sundown, which
maintained neither the rebellious
charm of their early work, nor the
anthemic hits of their previous
album. While on tour supporting
the album, amid rumors of
alcoholism and infighting, lead
singer Caleb Followhill famously
left the stage to "vomit and drink
a beer." He didn't return, the band
cancelled the rest of the tour and
more or less vanished for three
years.
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back and ready to reclaim their
throne, though for a band that
has held royalty in the world of
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compromise on that very first three tracks. It's here that the
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here. There's a headless redcoat
revolutionary, murmurings
about witchy covens, a blurrily
indistinct demon and George
Washington's bible. The most
surprising twist? "Sleepy Hollow"
isn't that bad.
Two of the four creators of
the series, Alex Kurtzman and
Roberto Orci, put their "Fringe"
background to excellent use,
infusing"Sleepy Hollow" with an
exacting amount of seriousness.
Nobody's laughing, and yet, the
campy element is fully embraced.
There are genuinely spooky
moments - thumbs are nearly
bitten off, heads are literally
rolling everywhere (with one
encased in a jar), living bodies
claw their way out of the dirt -
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played by the dashingly character names, "Sleepy
Tom Mison, "One Day") Hollow" is all about the Four
in the Revolutionary Horsemen and the world's
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pocalypse. Fast forward after all, and there's the tedious
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have been mysteriously it avoids imminent cancellation)
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Mills (Nicole Beharie, worked out all the bumps with a
"), finds an unexpected few establishing episodes. After
Crane after her boss is everyone is on board - audience
soniously dispatched by included - the series can work
imself. in procedural cases, similar in
style to fan favorite "Grimm."
Though there are persistent
problems, including the fact
that a villain with no head is
low is self- decidedly one-dimensional,
it's clear that FOX has at least
'are enough borderline faith in the series.
Currently airing on Monday
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tough network competition, but
the niche element gives it an
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bod Crane as we know nearly every level. It's complex
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self-confident academic background track. It's not the
of the stuttering, gangly most enticing pilot of the fall
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By LENA FINKEL Added Manfredi: "We get
DailyArts Writer along fabulous. We have a very
similar approach, and I trust
In one of the hottest plays to him."
hit the stage, the dynamic duo of Manfredi's trust will be
Director Tim Rhoze and Actor important, as Rhoze plans to
John Manfredi take a lot of risks with their
hopes to An ||lad interpretation of the play.
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poem into a Perfnrmance
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man play. But From $22 things," Manfredi said. "It's a
this won't be new telling, a brand-new play
your average - only two years old. But Tim's
stool-sitting, monotone-narrated version is even newer than that."
snoozefest. The star Manfredi Added Rhoze: "My approach
insisted there is "no lack of is different from what it has
activity" and that it will indeed been. The setting is different;
be an action-packed event. the music is different - as it
"I had to make sure I was in
shape,asitwasmoreofaphysical
play," Manfredi explained.
But this shouldn't be too
difficult to accomplish, as
Manfredi is no stranger to the
stage. He previously performed
in Performance Network
Theatre's productions of "A
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should be. You bring your own
personality."
The twosome may be
demanding high expectations of
its performance, but with both
members in their sweet spots,
their goals are likely to be met.
A professor at Oakland
University during the day,
Manfredi asserted that, "Acting
is far and away my bigger
passion. I'm blessed to get a lot
of work."
As for Rhoze, he has a wealth
of both acting and directing
experience but much prefers the
director's chair.
"I love the collaboration with
the producers, the costume and
set designers and, sometimes,
even the playwrights," he said.
With their passion - and so
much dedication - Manfredi
and Rhoze are sure to enthrall
the audience with their one-
man adaptation of a classic
adventure.

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