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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2023

December 23, 2023
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Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year. And there is plenty of disagreement.

Arts Feature: The Best in Popular Music 2023

December 23, 2023
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Our music critics pick some of the standout albums and performances of 2023.

Arts Feature: According to Our Critics — The Best That TV Offered in 2023

December 23, 2023
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Our critics supply their TV favorites of 2023.

Arts Feature: The Best of Visual Arts and Design, 2023

December 21, 2023
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Amid the year’s chaos, art was a saving grace, civilizing and humanizing: a much needed blessing that allowed us to breathe, to inhale beauty and perhaps a whiff or two of truth.

Arts Feature: Top Classical Recordings and Concerts of 2023

December 21, 2023
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Our classical music critics supply their favorites, albums and concerts, from over the past year.

Music Feature: The Best Jazz Albums and Live Shows of 2023

December 20, 2023
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The magazine’s jazz critics look back over the past year and highlight their favorite albums and live shows.

Theater Preview: Something for Everyone — How Providence-Area Stages are Surviving, Post-Pandemic

December 19, 2023
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Providence-area professional theaters have fared better than most in terms of surviving and rebounding from the pandemic.

Music Commentary: Nanci Griffith vs. the “New Yorker”

December 19, 2023
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It was the sniping tone that made the article perplexing. I would almost call it perverse. Why treat so cavalierly — even shabbily — a deceased, highly esteemed, Grammy-winning artist?

Film Anniversary: From Punchline to Plausibility — The 50-Year Transformation of “Soylent Green”

November 29, 2023
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“Soylent Green” should be seen as a work of future history, a docudrama of things that, in 1973, had yet to happen but are happening now, 50 years later.

Short Fuse Podcast #65: Arts Commentary and Criticism — The Canary in the Mine Shaft

November 16, 2023
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In this episode of the Short Fuse, host Elizabeth Howard and Editor-in-Chief and founder of the “Arts Fuse,” Bill Marx, discuss the vital role arts commentary and criticism play in nurturing an open and democratic society

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