Naji Ismail's "Om Amira" (pictured) is a heart-breaking domestic portrait set in a run-down Cairo apartment.
His crowning portrait, set on a hilltop, is "Woman with a Parasol: Madame Monet and Her Son".
"August" too is a dysfunctional family portrait set in a big house in the wide-open West with a dominating mother at its center.
Tomorrow night the stage will fill with professional and amateur dancers and an actor, Sam Waterston, in "Lincoln Portrait," set to music by Copland.
(Isherwood) ★ 'Sweet and Sad' (closes on Sunday) Richard Nelson's soul-stirring family portrait, set on Sept. 11 of this year, articulates thoughts that lurk in the back of everyone's head.
Mr. Davis will appear for this one night as the narrator of "Lincoln Portrait," set to music by Aaron Copland and words by Lincoln; and Ms. Herrera, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, will be partnered at the gala by Wu-Kang Chen in "Variations on 'America'," created for Mr. Baryshnikov and Christine Sarry in 1977.
There's a photograph of Judge Batts online, taken in 2002, posing proudly next to her painted portrait, set on an easel, and commissioned by her alma mater, the Harvard Law School.
It's a terrified counterfactual self-portrait, set in the London music-hall scene of 1914 (a date of double import — the year of war, and the year that he started making movies), in which he plays a charming stage comedian trapped in a tradition that he practiced skillfully and lovingly but unoriginally.
His 1918 homoerotic self-portrait set in a Turkish bath is likely to have been inspired by it.
