The library is pleased to present a talk on the “Intimate Impressionism” show at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco in its first-floor meeting room at 6:30 p.m. May 14. The speaker is decent Jim Kohn of the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, who will discuss some of Degas’ ballerina paintings, still-life works by Cezanne and more. Rhythmix Cultural Works on Blanding Avenue celebrates the opening of its latest art show from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday. The exhibit features photographs by Jan Watten and paintings by Ginny Parson which “capture unexpected moments in the natural world,” according to the gallery. The show runs through July 3.

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We know that “Midsummer” is Shakespeare’s sweet romp about desire and the insanity of love that afflicts lovers across social strata and demographics. We also know that Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander who loves Hermia. Knowing it isn’t seeing, however, and Neumeier has so clotted the stage with corps de ballet, with everyone dressed in nearly identical clothes, that signature movement styles barely register. Only Silvia Azzoni, whose Helena is a nearsighted vaudevillian, followed by the martinet obtuseness of Otto Bubenicek as her beloved officer, Demetrius, physically embody their characters. One of the evening highlights comes as Helena tries desperately to attach herself in a dozen different insectivorous ways to the tone deaf Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia’s set pieces, by contrast, are mostly insipid standard pas de deux of breathless and ho-hum love.

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