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ART OF DARKNESS

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From: Philadelphia Weekly
Date: 20070502
Author:Anonymous

ART OF DARKNESS

When I learned the Brandywine River Museum was showing "Howard Pyle and the American Renaissance," I was as giddy as a chunky cheerleader on tryouts day. But I left disappointed, trailing my pompoms in the dust of despair. In fact, to switch metaphors as unexpectedly as a savage Josh Koscheck leg shot followed by a cartilage-crushing flurry of fists to the face, my hopes were smashed into the canvas and left involuntarily spasming like a heap of bloodied luchadores after a superbomb neck-breaker combination gone terribly and tragically tits para arriba.

Pyle was the foremost ...

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