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Visual Arts Review: Sampling Outsider Art in New England

March 31, 2024
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Since I live in Boston, and was seeking out the farther reaches of the outsider art world, I was happy to discover three stellar galleries in Massachusetts and Vermont.

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Concert Review: Cambridge Symphony Orchestra Explores an Immigrant’s Journey

April 5, 2024
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The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra’s recent performance supplied drama, vigor, and reflection.

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Film Review: “Civil War” Crimes — A Boutique Catastrophe

April 10, 2024
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In this dreamworld, the politics don’t matter. It’s the artfully gruesome spectacle that counts — that and the hackneyed Hollywood storyline about the hardened veteran mentoring the neophyte through an initiation into the harsh realities of the profession.

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Concert Review: Disco Biscuits — A Band Reborn

March 19, 2024
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The Disco Biscuits are playing champion-level shows following a period of rebuilding and recalibrating that brought the band out of semi-retirement.

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Coming Attractions: March 24 through April 8 — What Will Light Your Fire

March 24, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Moppa Elliott’s New Recordings — His Most Sincere Efforts to Date

March 20, 2024
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Moppa Elliott makes eminently approachable music at a very high standard, with great ingenuity and sophistication. He has proven himself to be one of the most inventive and creative composers for small jazz ensemble since Charles Mingus.

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Visual Arts Review: “Cities Here and There” — Various Visions of Urbanity

March 12, 2024
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This exhibit at the Brickbottom Gallery does a good job of capturing the unexpected moments and surprises that we experience in a city.

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Rock Album Review: Kim Gordon’s “The Collective” — Ensnared in Anxieties

March 8, 2024
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The album’s layers of thick and swampy sound make Kim Gordon’s anxious point.

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Music Interview: Disco Biscuits Redux — “Revolution in Motion”

March 10, 2024
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The Disco Biscuits improvisations are not driven by a guitar-rock root: they are more apt to dive into a piece of classical music and then ease into a propulsive dance-club beat that eventually swerves into Zappa-style brainy grime.

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Concert and Album Reviews: Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra plays Britten, Tchaikovsky, Ives, and Ravel — Isabelle Faust plays Britten

March 7, 2024
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Conductor Benjamin Zander put the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra to challenging work at Symphony Hall, while, on record, Isabelle Faust delivers a vital, urgent, and engrossing traversal of the Britten Violin Concerto.

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