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| Review: Wolke's photos capture the fragility behind the beauty |
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| By Ivy Cooper, Special to the Beacon |
| Posted 9:10 am Mon., 7.19.10 |
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“Jay Wolke: Architecture of Resignation” features works the Chicago-based photographer made between 1999 and 2009. 
Jay Wolke, Quarried Hill, Matera, 2000, 44 x 55 inches, courtesy of the artist.
When: Through Sept. 4 They’re remarkable images taken in an area of southern Italy called the Mezzogiorno, a landscape that has for centuries been occupied by forces asserting their military, colonial and commercial interests on the land. Wolke’s camera captures the processes by which the population and the land itself have adjusted to their environment’s transmutation. The photographs are at first glance beautiful, but, like the region itself, they prove on closer inspection to be profoundly unsettled and unsettling. “Architecture of Resignation” is highly recommended. Wolke’s book by the same title will be published later this year. Ivy Cooper, a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is the Beacon art critic. To reach her, contact Beacon features and commentary editor Donna Korando. |
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This Saturday was the debut of a new show by The Improv Shop that will bring out of town improv teams to St. Louis to play for — and with — a local audience. The Road Show brought teams "Everybody Grok" and "Felt" from Chicago.
We talked to Eric Christensen, producer of the Road Show and member of local improv team "Ted Dangerous"; Katie Nunn, member of "Ted Dangerous" and improv coach; and Melanie Penn and Ranjan Khan, members of local teams "Melanj" and "Magic Ratio"; about the St. Louis improv scene and why it's important to welcome teams from other cities to perform here.
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