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Music Preview: Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Fireside Live Tour Is on Its Way

July 9, 2021
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Regardless of what the future holds, Derek Trucks said that he and his bandmates are grateful for every opportunity to get back in front of live audiences.

WATCH CLOSELY: “Mare of Easttown” — Women Hold Up Half the World

July 9, 2021
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Mare of Easttown is particularly effective in interweaving troubled domestic timelines, families held together by women who are on the brink of psychic or emotional collapse.

July Short Fuses – Materia Critica

July 9, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Television Review: “Schmigadoon!” — Sending Up the Great White Way

July 8, 2021
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Schmigadoon! is both an enjoyable love letter to classic Broadway musicals and a good-natured spoof of their now antique conventions.

Rap Album Review: MIKE goes “Disco!”

July 8, 2021
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Disco! feels like the culmination of what will be seen as an early stage in MIKE’s career –– stylistic mastery achieved, a mountain summit reached.

Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet’s “Body and Soul” — Dark and Potent Boogie

July 8, 2021
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Body and Soul generates a whirligig of passions — joy, frustration, pleasure, and rage.

Visual Arts Review: Virgil Abloh Is Bringing in the Outside at the ICA

July 6, 2021
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“Figures of Speech” is a kind of aesthetic/political injection: its messages are put across by pieces that seamlessly blend a number of genres, including sculpture, music, graphics, and film.

Arts Remembrance: Pianist-Composer Frederic Rzewski

July 5, 2021
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I consider composer Frederick Rzewski the most profound and persistent explorer of how to address injustice through the use of sophisticated compositional tools.

Film Review: This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival Documentaries — From Leonardo da Vinci to Rick James

July 4, 2021
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The Tribeca Film Festival wrapped last week — here’s a selection of the most promising documentaries on view.

Author Interview: Fred Waitzkin on “Strange Love”

July 2, 2021
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One reason Fred Waitzkin’s work, outside of Searching for Bobby Fischer, is not as well known as it might be is that it doesn’t respect time-honored boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.

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