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“Plastic” would have been much more effective if it had taken the form of an anime or a cartoon.
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Fascism is faced down in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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The resolute British singer/actress survived addiction, homelessness, cancer and Covid, which left her in a coma before she completed work on her final album in 2021.
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The healing powers of poetry is a sieve through which Ange Mlinko pours bitterness and disunity, cosmic and personal.
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Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains and I talked about the making of his latest recording, his most recent two solo albums versus his previous two, and his thoughts about his Boston fans.
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This show is proof of the Harvard Art Museums’ commitment to display relevant work by living artists who are grappling with critical issues posed by our contemporary world.
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This week’s poem: Alan Smith Soto’s “As on a familiar journey”
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Put Bill Charlap in that camp of brilliant jazz originals who have plied their trade by playing songs by other people and making them definitively their own.
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With 12 studio albums and myriad EPs to his band’s credit, Stuart Murdoch can now boast, not that he’s the type to do so, of being a published novelist.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025