Director Chloé Zhao evokes the refreshing experience of freedom felt at the end of a nomad’s typical work day.
Commentary
Visual Arts Commentary: An Enduring New England Design Influence — The Shaker Style
As we move into the 21st Century, with the Climate Crisis and consumerism on the rise, the Shaker’s “less is so much more” sensibility takes on even more significance, practical as well as spiritual.
Commentary/Interview: Boston Globe Union Negotiations — Two Years On, More Anger and Resistance
Those who value serious journalism (as well as the rights of journalists) should be quite worried about just how lethally Boston Globe management is attempting to undercut the newspaper’s union.
Film Review: The Best Horror of 2020
It was the most terrifying of times, it was the most horrifying of times.
Theater Commentary: Where Is Our Rage?
Why are Boston stages reacting so serenely to our current miasmas — pandemical, political, economic, and spiritual.
Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2020
An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.
Jazz Appreciation/Album Review — Carla Bley, 84 and Counting
Carla Bley’s last three CDs are not a casual sequence, and hearing all of them together, as I did recently, provides a refreshing reminder of her greatness.
Jazz Review/Interview: Duncan Heining Revises His Landmark Biography of Jazz Composer George Russell
If you do not know George Russell, this book will bring you closer to one of the geniuses of American music.
Book Review: Karl Kraus’s Prophetic “Third Walpurgis Night” — Listening to the Music of an Ocean of Mud
“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”— Karl Kraus
Music Review: The Harry Smith B-Sides: Precursor to The Harry Smith C(ensored)-Sides?
The Atlanta-based label Dust-to-Digital would like to show us the flip side of The Anthology of American Folk Music, but they don’t like what they hear.