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By Bryce Hallett Program 17 Upcoming Events 46 BAMdirectory 54 Robert McFarlane BA 1\11 Co\LAr Arti't Andres Serrano was born in New York City in 1950 and studied art at the Brooklyn Museurn Art School from 1967 to 1969. His artworks have been exhibited in galleries and institutions around the world. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions including "Body and Soul," a traveling exhibition seen in Norway, Germany, and England, and mid-career retro­ spectives at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Philadelphia and the Groninger Museum/The Netherlands. His photographs have been included in many group shows, with recent exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art/Ridgefield, Connecticut; New Museum of Contemporary Art/New York City; the Serpentine Art Gallery/London; and the Victoria & Albert Museum/London. He is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City. 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Equal Opportun;ty Lender. www.eab.com Glorified at Glyndebourne, Composers Leos Janacek and Benjamin Britten both tackled stories and ideas that had scarcely been ex­ Nikolaus Lehnoff's production of plored by opera before. While Britten concentrated The Makropulos Case--Leas on the theme of the sexual outsider (drawing on his life experience), Janacek explored the realms of fem­ Janacek's brilliant meditation on inism and religion, driven by his sympathy for those like himself whom life (and the ancient rules of the mortality and morality-comes Church) had cheated of the fundamental experience to BAM. By Tom Sutcliffe of love. The Czech composer's marriage was a wasteland (however much his poor wife wished to sustain it), and his transfiguration after he met his Anjua Silja in The Makropulos Case beloved soul mate, Kamila Stosslova, clearly ac­ Photo by Mike Hoban counts for the extraordinary creative flourish of his 8 WHY. HOW. I n t r 0 d U C i n g A C u r a M D X . 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