The actual metamorphoses of aging are crueler than even Kafka's.
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Ovid's version (Metamorphoses) is the most vividly detailed account of Pygmalion.
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This makes his serial metamorphoses that much more consequential and unpredictable.
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Each of her metamorphoses eschew sterile computer graphics for ramshackle practical effects.
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And so, as Christian M. develops and changes, his last name metamorphoses.
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But perhaps the most famous of all building metamorphoses was Pennsylvania Station.
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This is really, so long after "Metamorphoses," you going back in the water.
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And what about "Metamorphoses," which still lingers in the minds of many theatergoers?
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Reinterpretation blossoms from Silano's metamorphoses and his appropriations become highly suggestive and pensive.
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Check out the metamorphoses-themed art, installations, and structures being constructed at Burning Man:
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Perhaps not surprisingly, given Ovid's stories of metamorphoses, she also attaches herself to animals.
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Let's revisit just a few of her many incredible movie makeovers, makeunders, and metamorphoses.
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The lowbrow metamorphoses into the highbrow, proving that art and fun aren't mutually exclusive.
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With their almost shamanistic masks, they hint at the characters' metamorphoses under a sorcerer's spell.
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Since its birth in 1994, Amazon has starred in several dramatic metamorphoses of its own.
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These metamorphoses are achieved via instant costume changes, including one breathless sequence involving flying headgear.
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Ange sees nature's endless metamorphoses and rebirths as being synchronized with female biology and psychology.
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Fergus Greer's photographs attempt to capture Bowery's many metamorphoses: a life lived as a look.
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Or is this another in an series of metamorphoses, determined by whatever drives wine styles?
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This year's theme was "Metamorphoses" and that lent itself to all types of interesting attire.
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In literature, women have been ingeniously silenced: In Ovid's "Metamorphoses," they're turned into birds and trees.
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The theme of this year's Burning Man is metamorphoses, and the artwork adheres to that theme.
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The title of his new work, "Metamorphica," nods to Ovid's "Metamorphoses," and Ovid bookends the collection.
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They look shamed by such exposure, which lends their subsequent metamorphoses a savory tang of revenge.
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Ovid's "Metamorphoses" recounts the birth of Medusa's hideousness: She is raped by Poseidon in Athena's temple.
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The Centre Pompidou-Metz in Metz, France, features "Rebecca Horn, Theatre of Metamorphoses" until Jan. 13.
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He wastes away with unrequited lust and finally metamorphoses into a flower, the daffodil (Linnaean genus Narcissus).
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But as New Scientist points out, these metamorphoses usually require external stimuli to get going—until now.
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Grandrieux is fascinated with the human figure and the way in which it transforms, metamorphoses, and transmogrifies.
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Overall the switch is effective, and fits the sonic metamorphoses in Thundercat's new track very nicely indeed.
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Beyond the suburbs, traditional shamanic uses of hallucinogens, such as ayahuasca, are said to facilitate such metamorphoses.
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Maotik presented Shelter—produced by BAM Festival—at the festival Metamorphoses in Liège, Belgium this past May.
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Metamorphoses by Ovid Watson told Vanity Fair she was taking a course about this book at Brown. 22.
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It was here, too, that Goethe, looking at a palm, conceived his theory of the metamorphoses of plants.
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For its 10th Anniversary, the choreographer devised a site-specific, one-time only performance inspired by Ovid's The Metamorphoses.
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The Spanish word "mariposita" means butterfly, which aligns this work well with this year's Burning-Man theme of "Metamorphoses."
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The narrative explores Tortorella's family history, drug-fueled benders, and many metamorphoses as they explored their sexuality and gender.
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The real-world characters are so hastily established and sketchily drawn that there's nothing compelling or surprising in their metamorphoses.
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Unique art structures and enormous installations are built on the playa annually, and this year's artwork follows the theme of metamorphoses.
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ROSENDALE Inner Spaces III: Ovid's "Metamorphoses," dance, performance, singing, music and visual art based on a score by Benjamin Britten. Aug.
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Earlier this year, the track got a nearly hourlong remix from Four Tet that made its harrowing metamorphoses feel nearly infinite.
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In Renaissance times, the bright young people knew what they were talking about when they made glancing references to Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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Mr. Hamasyan met this rhythmic challenge with a melody that seemed, in its many metamorphoses, sometimes to limp momentarily, sometimes to skip.
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Still, the metamorphoses that were underway manifested themselves subtly, shaping the daily rhythms of human activity at home and in the workplace.
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The book also explores Tortorella's family history, relationship with spouse Bethany Meyers, and many metamorphoses as they explored their sexuality and gender.
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The other songs I heard that day would also go through many metamorphoses before the album was done: changes of structure, tempo, sonics.
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Just like its Oslo sibling, Fuglen metamorphoses from a caffeine-fueled hangout into a cocktail bar, attracting a beautiful and self-conscious crowd.
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In a plot loosely drawn from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," Giove, the creator of the universe, falls for Calisto, a virgin archer and follower of Diana.
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I considered much that industry has changed, but also how each sector I've researched has transformed and why these metamorphoses keep my job fresh.
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Or so it seemed, anyway, in Giorgio Armani's Privé show, a meditation on the sky in all its cloudy metamorphoses by way of — athcouture.
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An anorexic sister metamorphoses into an eel, a twin reincarnates as a fox, a dead young man is a revenant dripping newly lethal language.
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Still, that year Klee created "Dame Démon," a chef-d'oeuvre of surreal, biomorphic metamorphoses in subtle color, done by mixing oil paint and watercolors.
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Both works depart from the mythological tale, in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," of a sculptor who falls in love with a female statue of his own making.
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The romantic image of Baucis and Philemon in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," growing in age together over centuries like intergrafted trees, is just that, Gubar concludes: romance.
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Trained as a field biologist, he studied insect-metamorphoses patterns in graduate school and eventually used the same techniques to measure insect growth in death investigations.
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Echoing past metamorphoses from Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando, Driver shed 50 pounds to play a Jesuit missionary questioning his faith in Martin Scorsese's Silence.
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These tiny tanks seem to hold an odd ecosystem, like a fucked-up fish tank where things evolve through what seem to be creepy chemical metamorphoses.
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One of the most eerily accurate on-screen metamorphoses that took place last year has to be Christian Bale shape-shifting into Dick Cheney for Vice.
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As the Conservative Party now metamorphoses, Labour has comprehensively abandoned the social-democratic center-ground from which it won three successive elections between 1997 and 2005.
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In that movie, written by Budd Schulberg and directed by Elia Kazan, he played Lonesome Rhodes, a hillbilly singer who metamorphoses into a megalomaniacal television personality.
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If your idea of a great date night is splitting a joint with your significant other, pull up Metamorphoses on Netflix and get ready to chill.
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The work has since been exhibited as part of multiple acclaimed exhibitions of Gauguin's work, including Gauguin: Metamorphoses at the Museum of Modern Art in 2014.
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Walking through the folded structure of Theatre of Metamorphoses, I followed suggested streams of restrained desperation and ecstatic release by (and through) mechanomorphic constrictions and emancipations.
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The Metamorphoses on Netflix is a French retelling of the book set in the modern world where high school runaway Europa has encounters with gods and monsters.
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Before embarking on their current metamorphoses, the two of them met halfway — in operetta, when they appeared together in "The Merry Widow" at the Met in 2014.
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There he became infatuated with Ovid's "Metamorphoses," that freewheeling ancient anti-epic whose tales of gods and monsters inspired so many masterpieces of Baroque and Renaissance art.
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Yet for all its electronic metamorphoses, the goal it achieves is intimacy, as Kelela whispers and coos about all the shifting modalities of getting close to someone.
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In Crazy Rich Asians, the actress, 36, undergoes one of the best style metamorphoses in cinematic history, transforming from the girl next door into a world-class fashionista.
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But watching "Hadestown" unfold so gorgeously at the Walter Kerr Theater, I found myself thinking of other Greek characters: those lucky few saved from heartbreak by radical metamorphoses.
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Moreover, there are plenty of historians, linguists and professors who wish to read in their original Latin form works like "The Aeneid" by Virgil or "Metamorphoses" by Ovid.
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As the rappers turn chaos into cadence, let's not forget who lays the foundation for the metamorphoses: Mr. Sullivan, whose voice becomes an inspirational symphony of percussive noises.
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As a result, throughout Theatre of Metamorphoses, there is more artistic density and adventure than at any other one-person show I have seen so far this year.
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Mr. Braziller scored another triumph in 1968 with his two-volume, 1,000-page facsimile edition of William Caxton's 1480 translation of Ovid's epic poem "Metamorphoses," a British treasure.
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The English fairy tale, Tom Tit Tot is interlaid within collages with Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," Coleridge's Collected Letters, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Spinoza's Ethics.
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The failed romance of the talkative nymph Echo and the handsome hunter Narcissus, as told by Ovid in his "Metamorphoses," gets a contemporary retelling by this interdisciplinary arts ensemble.
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But according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, written in the late 1st century, the Sirens beseeched the gods for wings, who granted their wish to assist them in their search for Persephone.
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Body Fantaisies was at the Museum Tinguely June 5–September 22, and Rebecca Horn: Theatre of Metamorphoses at the Centre Pompidou-Metz from June 5, 2019 until January 213, 2020.
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Sentience through transformative cinematic suggestion is the subject of Theatre of Metamorphoses in Metz, while body-launched machine kinetics is the focus of the non-chronological Body Fantasies show in Basel.
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And it was good decision, because they sagaciously supplied Theatre of Metamorphoses with a progressiveness that twines around you as it presents in parallel those who have fed Horn's intricate imagination.
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Metamorphoses Ovid's c is a foundational text of Western mythology that chronicles the mythic history of the world from the creation of the universe to the ascension of Julius Caesar to godhood.
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METAMORPHOSES: OVID ACCORDING TO WALLY REINHARDT For more than 30 years, this artist has focused exclusively on illustrating the Roman poet's mythos with an open-ended series of charmingly loopy gouaches. Jan.
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Intraclass metamorphoses were much more common than interclass ones; that is, when a dream character transformed, it would usually assume the guise of another character rather than an inanimate object (and vice versa).
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The six-decade span of East of the Mississippi was a period of vast metamorphoses on the American continent, including, of course, a civil war; it was also an era of convulsive technological progress.
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No bits of Shakespeare's handwriting scribbled in the margins of Ovid's Metamorphoses, no Shakespearian signatures on the bottoms of old letters, no "property of William Shakespeare" written on the endpapers of a Bible, nothing.
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"Metamorphoses has the potential to break down our preconceptions of the voices of creativity, what different people around the world are thinking and who has the right to be heard," Lovett said in a statement.
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The idea of a man falling in love with, and copulating with, a created woman dates back at least to Pygmalion's Galatea, a narrative reproduced in the ancient Roman-era Metamorphoses by Ovid and elsewhere.
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Over the centuries, fiction has often played with notions of gender, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" through Shakespeare's "As You Like It" to Virginia Woolf's "Orlando", a book Winterson once described as "the first English language trans novel".
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The episode actually began in rather understated fashion, focusing on the latest reunion of the Stark children, and drawing attention to the metamorphoses that they have undergone in their efforts to survive over the last six seasons.
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"Two thousand years before Kafka's Gregor Samsa woke up as a cockroach, Ovid, the literary bad boy of First Century Rome, was writing about metamorphoses dire and diverse," says Burning Man's explanation for its 2019 art theme.
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Arnulfo Maldonado's set, lighted by Alan C. Edwards, picks up on the imagery of the title, using differently angled banks of mirrors that subtly capture (and reverse) the play's projected titles, Washington's metamorphoses and even us, the audience.
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Biden's late-in-life metamorphoses are not unwelcome—they return him to a place within the mainstream of his party, and mark a retreat from many of the indefensible positions he once took on social issues and crime.
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At the same time, the rise in protective committees and procedures (like trigger warnings) ensure that students will not be confronted with course materials that might upset them (even classics like Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn").
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NDiaye's metamorphoses of people into animals—thoroughly hypothetical in Three Strong Women, seemingly actual in Ladivine—are at once a homage to a truly old master, Ovid, and a deeply contemporary swerve away from psychological investigation into pure storytelling.
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He divided the drawings into notional boxes, like comic strips, and in 2017 donated them to New York University, where many are on display in the show "Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt" at the university's Grey Art Gallery.
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Known as one of her masterpieces, the work probably depicts Galatea, one of the 50 Nereides in Greek mythology, memorable for turning her mortal lover Acis into a river after he was killed by a cyclops in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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She wove some of the mythology into her narrative, and ignored other depictions that struck her as silly or sexist, deliberately omitting a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses where Circe punishes a king who spurns her advances by turning him into a woodpecker.
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Her son Kabir is our reluctant superhero - a bumbling young man terrified of heights who metamorphoses into a cross between Superman, Krrish and MSG after a near-death encounter with Raka (Nathan Jones), a thug hired by Malhotra to cut down the tree.
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Ovid revisited the myth in "Metamorphoses" and centuries later Jean Cocteau put a modern spin on it in "Orpheus" (1950), a hypnotically lovely film in which death's emissary is a striking woman who rides around in a black Rolls-Royce flanked by motorcyclists.
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" His other Broadway credits include "Paul Sills' Story Theatre" (1970); "Metamorphoses," by Ovid (19883); "Bad Habits," by Terrence McNally (1974); and, in an act of coming full circle, "Honeymoon Motel," by Mr. Allen, staged in 2011 as part of the Broadway triptych "Relatively Speaking.
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The first to properly explore her origin story in literature was the Roman poet Ovid, who detailed her transformation in the Metamorphoses circa 8 A.D. According to Ovid, Medusa was once a beautiful young maiden, the only mortal of three sisters known as the Gorgons.
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He's had this band since 2008, but after several metamorphoses in style, reaching what they currently describe as "ambient-pop," the band released its first EP, I., in 2012, where it lay dormant until just a few months ago when it suddenly blew up online.
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Russian-born photographer Anastasia Kuba moved to California in 2003 and has gone through a couple metamorphoses: from topless dancer to boudoir photographer to now breaking the internet with her project Nothing But Light, her nude photography project that has blown up this past year.
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He builds songs from loops of his voice and instruments, and he performed behind a futuristic microphone stand that doubled as a looping station, while his band also employed electronic metamorphoses; pizzicato lines from a violinist were pitched down to sound like a jazz bass.
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This mood is also felt in the Achim Thode's photograph "Unicorn" (1970) in Theatre of Metamorphoses, taken as part of Horn's famous private performance film Unicorn (1970) that was inspired by the Czechoslovakia border crossing scene in Jean Genet's 1949 book The Thief's Journal.
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The film resolves in an act of imaginative fellatio, as a bundle of asparagus metamorphoses into cascading water, metal filings, and multicolored pills under the manipulation of the protagonist's mouth; it's a stunning illustration of the haptic sensitivity which encircles acts of both creative and sexual realization.
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Kanye West, Ellie Goulding, Mumford & Sons, indie rockers The National and more will contribute original tracks to Metamorphoses, an album that aims to raise awareness and action for Global Citizen, the organization working to end extreme poverty by 2030 which was co-founded by CEO Hugh Evans.
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Both the sculpture's subject matter as well as the word "hermaphrodite" originate in the classical myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses of Hermaphroditus, the exceptionally handsome son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merges with the female nymph, Salmacis, to create a single body that is both male and female.
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At Columbia, four students wrote an op-ed in favor of trigger warnings that started with an anecdote about a survivor of sexual assault reading Ovid's Metamorphoses: As a survivor of sexual assault, the student described being triggered while reading such detailed accounts of rape throughout the work.
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Cast another way, that means women have about 210 months to shapeshift into parents and a paltry few weeks' maternity leave to get used to it (if they're lucky); dads dive in blind on day one, fitting their metamorphoses into evenings, weekends and, like Joseph, mornings before work.
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Seeing Body Fantasies and Theatre of Metamorphoses makes it clear that the mental energies behind Horn's work is informed by fragile insights into the limitations of the quivering (female) sexual body and Horn's strong desire for circulating energies to open and feel and spread that body further and further.
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This inspirational show, with music by Lucy Simon and a book and lyrics by Marsha Norman, is a Freudian ghost story with a happy ending, in which demons of grief and repression are exorcised by Mary Lennox (Sydney Lucas), an 11-year-old who metamorphoses from glum contrariness into radiance.
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The banal 111 East 45th Street, 164 West 66th Street and 470 Eighth Avenue, to cite three such metamorphoses, became the more prestigious 237 Park Avenue, Three Lincoln Center and 12 Penn Plaza, respectively – much to the chagrin of taxi drivers, emergency responders and others whose work depended on the address system's predictability.
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And yet, although authors working in a number of genres have revisited the plots and characters of Greek tragedy—from Ovid's playful verse epic Metamorphoses, in the first century A.D., to "Mourning Becomes Electra," Eugene O'Neill's 1931 updating of the Oresteia narrative to the Civil War era—the genre has tended to resist novelistic adaptation.
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Rebecca Horn: Theatre of Metamorphoses at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (1 Parvis des Droits de l'Homme, Metz, France), curated by Emma Lavigne and Alexandra Müller, remains open until January 13; and Rebecca Horn: Body Fantasies at the Tinguely Museum (Paul Sacher-Anlage 2, Basel, Switzerland), curated by Sandra Beate Reimann, remains open until September 22.
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In Nippon Cha-cha-cha, which was developed from a live performance of the same title staged at the Centre Pompidou-Metz and Tokyo Commons in 2018, Morimura metamorphoses into key figures from the 20th century, like Yukio Mishima and General Douglas MacArthur, situating his own biographic self within a broader context of Japan's complex, multilayered post-war history.
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Few works fit the company's mission better than Francesco Cavalli's 1651 "La Calisto," a tender and alluring opera based on a tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which a nymph allied with Diana is abducted by Jupiter, cursed by Juno and transformed into a constellation of stars — a metamorphosis the organization probably hopes to effect on its young singers, too.
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An F.B.I. agent is driven to suicide by his love for a humanoid female robot whose "perfection is alarming"; thirteen pregnant teen-agers quietly discuss the intimacies of their condition as they float through the air down the hallway of their high school; a young woman metamorphoses into a deer whose hooves make it impossible to turn the knob of her bedroom door and escape.
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Key referential works here include a beautiful rare book of Publius Ovidius Naso's Metamorphoses published by J. W. Valvasor in 1680, Karel Destovnik Kajuh's cyclostyle-printed Poem (1943) from the Slovene National Archive, a copy of Tomaž Šalamun's first edition poem "Namen Pelerine" (Purpose of a Cape) from 1968, and an anonymous sculpture of the head of Achelous, a man-faced bull god, from 20173–68 AD courtesy of the Museum of Ljubljana.
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The entire sequence of six paintings is collectively known as Poesie, and it is based on Metamorphoses, a shape-shifting masterpiece of a book-length poem about the bad deeds of the gods of antiquity by Publius Ovidius Naso (aka Ovid), a Roman blackguard (it was mere happenstance that he proved to be a genius) from almost a couple of millennia back, who was finally exiled to the Black Sea coast for his many misdemeanors, where he was not a happy bunny.
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