(Schweitzer) ★ Pacifica Quartet (Saturday) Having surveyed the Shostakovich string quartet last season at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's intimate Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, the excellent Pacifica String Quartet, the museum's quartet in residence, is surveying the complete Beethoven quartets this season in six programs.
(Kozinn) ★ Pacifica Quartet (Saturday) Having surveyed the Shostakovich string quartet last season at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's intimate Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, the excellent Pacifica Quartet, the museum's quartet in residence, is surveying the complete 16 Beethoven quartets this season in six programs.
In Zal Batmanglij's "Sound of My Voice," which just got a distributor, she plays a cult leader who claims to be from the future, and in Mike Cahill's "Another Earth" (July 22), she is the protagonist of an intimate, moral drama graced by a touch of magic realism.
Mr. Gregory, who will play the infirm old Brovik, an aging employee of Solness's, said that if done correctly, the film could be an intimate meditation on finding grace "just as the clock is about to strike midnight".
And on the evidence of Friday's season opener, "Fringe" will continue to be the best show of its kind since "The X-Files" at the grace notes, intimate or humorous instances like Olivia's Crate & Barrel moment (which won't be further spoiled here).
Each of its many galleries tells a chapter about the Japanese expansion of ink into a magnificently expressive medium that could summon panoramic landscapes or grace small, intimate haiga, and either way convey a strong sense of the artist's gesture and personality.
But as she deals with ungrateful children, a dubious romance and a terrible neighbor, an unsentimental picture of everyday heroism emerges, and the audience is graced with intimate knowledge of a person we might not otherwise have noticed.
The crowd "hangs out" against the clutter of leftover food and drink, gracing the intimate tableau all of us want to be in.
His inspired, classically grounded French cuisine is served with the polish and grace befitting this intimate jewel box of a dining room.
The impact of Tony Smith's "Die," a steel cube, human-scale, with its triple entendre title implying industrial casting, dice and deadly weight, packs its wallop only when you move around it in the room -- just as Agnes Martin's whispery grid paintings derive their ethereal grace from their intimate scale.
In a series titled "Elegant Violence," the photographed dove into the world of rugby, creating vintage studio portraits of athletes who demonstrate both sheer aggression and athleticism, as well as intimate body contact and physical grace.
