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Dance Review: A Heartfelt “Cinderella” at Jacob’s Pillow

June 27, 2015
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Cinderella isn’t a lavish spectacle à la the Met, but rather, like its heroine, modest on the surface while pulsing with a generous heart underneath.

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Film Review: The Art of Being Frozen — Two Powerful Films from Roy Andersson

June 26, 2015
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The overriding theme in Roy Andersson’s films is the conflict between human frailty and our delusions of control.

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Rock Concert Review: Rush — Celebrating 40 Years of Prog-Rock

June 24, 2015
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One thing I’ve learned in years of being a Rush fan: Nobody ever changes their mind on this band.

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Visual Arts Review: Local Boy Makes Good at the Venice Biennale; Local Girl Perhaps Not So Much

June 24, 2015
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A mixed evaluation of the contributions of two New England artists — Joan Jonas and Mark Dion — at this year’s Venice Biennale.

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Dance Commentary: Misty Copeland, Ballet, and Race

June 23, 2015
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Tomorrow, Misty Copeland will be American Ballet Theatre’s first African-American ballerina to perform the lead role in Swan Lake in New York City.

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Concert Review: Richard Thompson — Moments of Sublimity

June 22, 2015
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He came up with one of those transcendent Richard Thompson moments, one to match anything I’ve seen onstage this year.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 21, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Visual Arts Review: The Revelations of Walking — the Photography of Kageyama Kōyō

June 18, 2015
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The best of Kageyama Kōyō’s photography contains a nuanced dramatic power that is both aesthetic and political.

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Visual Arts: M.I.T.’s Memorial to Officer Sean Collier — Mundane Rather than Marvelous

June 17, 2015
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M.I.T.’s Sean Collier Memorial does not make a full-bodied artistic statement — it does not elicit a strongly felt aesthetic or visceral reaction.

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Visual Arts Review: Photographer Rose Marasco — The Search for Juxtapositions

June 16, 2015
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Rose Marasco’s strong sensibility is always at work, searching for contrasts to capture in her photos.

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