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Letter from New York: Visual Arts — Alice Neel and All the Rest

May 26, 2021
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In New York, museums and galleries are racing toward a new normal, whatever that might be. Most exhibitions that opened earlier in the year will stay open into the summer.

Film Review: “Plan B” — A Walk on the Wild and Diverse Side

May 26, 2021
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Plan B, Hulu’s latest raunchy teen romp, proves why we need diverse voices in Hollywood.

Opera CD Review: Congolese Tenor Patrick Cabongo Steps into Stardom in a World-Premiere Recording of Meyerbeer’s “Romilda e Costanza”

May 26, 2021
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The composer of Les huguenots and L’Africaine was already an accomplished master at age 26, as this first-rate recording reveals.

Book Review: “B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites” — Viva the Overlooked!

May 24, 2021
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This slim volume is the ideal antidote to something like Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon and the other beefy works that lay out The Official Reading List For All Educated Persons.

Book Review: “The New Climate War” — Enough of the Doomsayers!

May 22, 2021
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This incisive volume will assist the creation of a much-needed collective effort, helping to frame a unified approach to waging combat on those who are destroying the environment for the sake of short term profit.

Book Review: “The Anglo-Saxons” — An Era of Continual Turmoil and Buried Treasures

May 21, 2021
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Medievalist Marc Morris has written an engaging account of turbulent times in a suitable and interesting style.

Dance Review: Abilities Dance Boston’s “Firebird Ballet” — Taking Inspiring Flight

May 21, 2021
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Re-envisioning and performing this beloved classic ballet with dancers that identify as disabled seems to me to be the definition of courageous.

Opera Album Review: An Extremely Effective Operatic “Pasticcio” Made by Vivaldi from His Own Arias and Those by Other Composers

May 21, 2021
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Vivaldi put this opera together using, in part, arias associated with two famous singers: the “Moorish” (i.e., half-African) Vittorio Tesi and the castrato Farinelli.

Poetry Review: Marcia Karp’s “If By Song” — Verse Passionate and Unruly

May 20, 2021
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This is a volume filled with complex pleasures and pains, assembled with purpose.

Film Review: “Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue” — Existing as a Writer in China Today

May 18, 2021
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For those with sufficient patience and imagination — and are eager to learn more about the Chinese literary scene than what’s found in journalistic headlines — Jia Zhangke’s documentary will be an uncommon treat.

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