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Seeing Happy Ending a few days after the shock of the 2016 presidential election felt bracing to me.
Leonard Cohen wrote with a mature poet’s sense of compression and depth.
How Soft the Lining brings considerable emotional power to bear on its exploration of the complexities of American history.
I’ve been most impressed by the manner in which these composers, in these works, took strong moral and/or political stands.
Bill T. Jones considers himself an heir of the postmodern dancers.
The biggest musical takeaway was the sheer brilliance of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s playing, which is the gold standard.
Craig Atkinson’s incendiary new documentary provides sobering food for thought on the rise of police brutality and intimidation in America.
Rosamond Purcell’s striking photographs are about surprising transformations, the unexpected magic of metamorphosis.
Reviews of a trio of films at the Boston Jewish Film Festival.
Cultural Commentary: Things Get Worse at the Boston Globe and Elsewhere — More Arts Criticism Bites the Dust
Many of today’s arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.
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