Sunday, December 14, 2008
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Posted by The Stranger on Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Art
'Rape of the Sabine Women'
You must see this work of art by Eve Sussman and a group of performers called the Rufus Corporation, because when you do, you will learn something about yourself. Rape of the Sabine Women is a huge, elaborate, sexy, self-important, beautiful movie layered with references to neoclassical paintings (Poussin, David, Rubens) depicting the mythical tale of the founding of Rome. It lasts 80 minutes and moves from a 1960s house party to an International Style airport to an elongated, smoke-machined, dancelike sequence of writhing bodies in an amphitheater. Will you love it, or will you hate it? (Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave NE, 543-2280. 11 am–5 pm, $10. Through March 22.) JEN GRAVES
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