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THURSDAY PICK | Mariano Pensotti: Like sands through the hourglass at the Walker Art Center

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Sendo, courtesy Walker Art Center

When we were kids, my sisters had a semi-spherical dollhouse that rotated on a turntable, with walls dividing the dolls' various rooms.

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THEATER | Acting Company and Guthrie Theater bring "Julius Caesar" awkwardly into the 21st century

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

William Sturdivant and Sid Solomon in Julius Caesar. Photo by Heidi Boehnenkamp, courtesy Guthrie Theater.

I knew we were in trouble with the new Acting Company/Guthrie Theater staging of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, brought into the present day via costumes and set design, when one of Caesar's advisors walked onstage and the two exchanged one of those shake-it/grasp-it/pound-it handshakes typically encountered in made-for-TV movies about urban youth and in your uncle's living room when he tries to show you how hip he is. By the time we got to the occupy rome sign and the Faireyesque Caesar posters, I was watching through my fingers with my hands over my face.

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SUNDAY PICK | Last call for "Graphic Design: Now in Production" at the Walker

By Morgan Halaska, TC Daily Planet

Daniel Eatock's Felt-Tip Prints

The Walker Art Center's major international exhibition that opened in October comes to a close on Sunday, January 22.

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THEATER | Kafka in Beirut: Rabih Mroué's "Looking for a Missing Employee" at the Walker Art Center

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Rabih Mroué. Photo by Thomas Lieberenz, courtesy Walker Art Center.

A character in Lebanese theater artist Rabih Mroué's Looking for a Missing Employee is named Joseph K., but Mroué assures viewers that he is not the same as Kafka's Josef K., the beleagured protagonist of The Trial. It's a knowing, ironic reference: the unfair, Byzantine world of law enforcement in Beirut as portrayed by Mroué is supremely Kafkaesque.

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THEATER | Young Jean Lee's "Untitled Feminist Show" at the Walker Art Center bares its burden lightly

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Courtesy Walker Art Center

It's tempting to say that Young Jean Lee's Untitled Feminist Show wouldn't work if the six performers weren't all naked for the duration of the show—but it's more precise to say that the performers' nudity is the show working. Once Lee and her ensemble hit on the necessity of nudity, in fact, it must have been hard to imagine the show not working, no matter what the six women ultimately did on stage.

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