Bodies, Bodies Everywhere

The Broad Street Review has a new piece about Bodies… The Exhibition, and if you’re wondering if the author has confused Body Worlds with the knock-off, you’re in luck: It appears he has.

You’ll also no doubt note there is a reference to the Nazis in the second paragraph. This is a journal of arts and culture, after all! “It did not reassure me that the show’s promoter is a German. Displaying corpses in amusing poses, with witty props and paraphernalia, put me in mind of Nazi lampshades made out of human skin.” Yeah, way to not hold that exhibition, Franklin Institute. (If you’re wondering, Body Worlds was run by a German; Bodies… The Exhibition was run by Premier Exhibitions, Inc., an Atlanta-based company.

Broad Street Review Back On The Nazi Beat

Never more have I been convinced the Broad Street Review is a parody of a cultural criticism website (sort of like a refined The Onion with McSweeney’s) than when I read this article comparing the moving of the Barnes Foundation to the Nazis stealing art. Bravo, good sirs.

Nazis Infiltrating City’s Classical Music Scene

Dan Rottenberg’s arts-and-culture online magazine, Broad Street Review, is quickly becoming a daily read for anyone interested in the Telenova-like plotlines of classical music aficionados, i.e. “Please tell Mr. Zaller, that Christoph Eschenbach has been sacked for crimes too egregious to enumerate.”

But, recently, I keep seeming to see references to Nazis in what one might assume was relatively a Nazi-free zone (the Philadelphia arts and culture scene).

Editor Rottenberg:

The power of critics to make or break performers is vastly overrated. Eschenbach is a big boy who’s been through a lot worse than bad reviews. He was left a speechless orphan at age five after witnessing the death of his grandmother and great-grandmother, for goodness’ sake. If after surviving the Nazis he can’t handle hostile critics wielding pens, he has no business conducting a major-league orchestra.

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