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That “we know you’re watching” gaze is echt Naharin, and its fine calibration of uningratiating directness, more assuming than aggressive, is like a watermark — an aspect that his many imitators struggle to reproduce.

That production is echt Kratzer: film and sets with the appearance of big-budget naturalism; novel storytelling that enhances rather than interferes with the work; graceful shifts between registers of humor and shattering pain.

Regardless, the only way to have an echt cream today, that would make Auster proud, is to make one yourself.

For sculpture, the cube is Minimalism’s echt form.

It is echt Carsen: loyal to, yet building on, the opera.