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Art as process. As thinking. As fun. The title of the De Iler exhibition is "Joy of People." "I think I'll make that my personal slogan," says Sadao. On fire with art and her job, she comes with rich experience in contemporary art, See ICA on C4 By John Timpane INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Among the many cool things about the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 50 years old next year, is tea time.

"Everybody on the staff alternates, and each afternoon, one of us serves tea." That's Amy Sadao, appointed in June as the institute's director after years in the New York art community. The ICA is associated with the University of Pennsylvania, its charge to involve the public with modern and contemporary art. Sadao pours, standing in an English snack bar. A full-size replica of one, that is. In the museum.

It's an art installation, titled Valerie's Snack Bar (2009), by Jeremy De Iler, a British artist with a huge exhibition at the institute through Dec. 30. Based on a real snack bar in Manchester, England, it's at once funny, loving, downbeat, and ironic. Sadao loves it, admires Deller's work can't believe I'm helping show his work to the and gets a kick out of pouring tea as part of a work of art. The person she's serving enters the artwork, too, plus the whole staff, each after Review Music Some things shouldn't become reality fodder Television The Houstons: On Our Own 9 p.m.

Wednesday on Lifetime Concerts with whispers of weather warnings By Gerrick D. Kennedy LOS ANGELES TIMES There are some things that make for great reality television fodder. Gossiping housewives, taut and tanned partying twenty-somethings, and a sassy, 7-yearold aspiring beauty queen hopped up on a sugary concoction called "go-go juice" are a few that come to mind. But there are some things that shouldn't be documented. Watching a family grieve and pick up the pieces after a devastating loss is at the top of the list.

That's what makes The Houstons: On Our Own, which premiered last week on Lifetime, such an uncomfortable and intrusive show to watch. Reality series centered on celebrities and their interpersonal relationships offer a fun look behind the excesses of fame and fortune. They let viewers live viSee THE HOUSTONS on C5 Buxtehude programs "End Philadelphia Singers evoke "jagged cedars." Whitney Houston's mother, Cissy, and daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown in "The Houstons: On Our Own." Whatever the family's motives in allowing the series, should some things not be public? RICHARD KNAPP Rodriguez concert raises the question: What if? By David Patrick Stearns INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC Great music often takes on shades of its surroundings, which is why at least two weekend concerts seemed to be issuing veiled warnings about the impending storm. The end of the world was the topic of the Buxtehude Consort's program Saturday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill.

No mentions of hurricanes were heard, but "Heaven, earth, air and sea prepare themselves to exact revenge" was how G.F. Telemann (1681-1767) began one of his cantatas, and you know he wasn't just riffing on Weather Channel hysteria. Then on Sunday, the Philadelphia Singers' "Snapshots From an American Century" at Christ Church on Rittenhouse Square featured Vincent Persichetti's Winter Cantata (Op. 97), chock-full of weather imagery in concise verse jagged cedars rips the winter blast Immediately afterward, I was buying flashlight batteries at 7-Eleven. Both programs offered plenty to take home, especially the Philadelphia Sing-See SINGERS on C2 records found their way to South Africa, where they became, unbeknownst to him, the soundtrack to the antiapartheid movement.

The unbelievable story including Rodriguez's decades- later tour of packed Review South African arenas Music is recounted in the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, which spurred the most recent rediscovery of the artist. (The 2009 reissue of his albums sparked the first.) A visibly frail Rodriguez shufSee RODRIGUEZ on C4 By Brian Howard FOR THE INQUIRER re there any Africans in the house?" joked Sixto Diaz Rodriguez as he took the stage at a sold-out World Cafe Live on Sunday night. As fate would have it, the 70-year-old psych-folk singer from Detroit owes his belated fame to the people of South Africa. After his two critically acclaimed, early-1970s albums flopped in the United States, Rodriguez all but vanished from the music scene. But copies of those 10., hir 4,4,, I- 'I it'7'- Sixth Diaz Rodriguez performing in 2008.

A documentary revived the career of the 19705 singer-songwriter in America. THEO JEMISON.