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Other Than Entertaining, It’s Difficult To Say Exactly What ‘Vera’ Is Trying To Do

Point to ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ or any number of similar entertainments as precedent, but ‘Vera’ is a slipperier creature in terms of its blurring of distinctions.

Via B4 Films and MoMA
Vera Gemma in 'Vera.' Via B4 Films and MoMA
MARIO NAVES
MARIO NAVES

Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s ‘Vera’
Museum of Modern Art
August 9-15

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MARIO NAVES
MARIO NAVES

​Mr. Naves is an artist, teacher, and critic based in New York City. His writing has appeared in City Arts, the New Criterion,the New York Observer, Slate, the Spectator World, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

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