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How much do we believe in abstract art?

By Sebastian Smee

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 29, 2012

Yasmina Reza’s play “Art,’’ now at New Repertory Theatre, and John Logan’s play “Red,’’ now being presented by SpeakEasy Stage Company, both begin the same way: with an actor gazing at an abstract canvas the audience can’t see.

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