Classical music continued to thrive, locally and globally, in 2019.
Commentary
Film Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2019
Our demanding critics choose the best (and the most disappointing) films of the year.
Music and Concert Favorites 2019
Our expert music critics serve up their usual highly eclectic round-up of the year’s most memorable.
Visual Arts Favorites 2019
Our critics sound off on some of their most striking visual art experiences this year.
Recommended Books, 2019
An eclectic round-up of our favorite books of the year from our critics.
Book Review: “The Conservative Sensibility” — A Plea for a Return to Normalcy
The very people that George Will is trying to appeal to are evidently quite happy to be drunk on the power that their brutishness has created.
Visual Arts Commentary: Pat Falco’s MOCK — A Resonant Statement about Boston’s Affordable Housing Crisis
With MOCK, the artist has made made an exceptionally powerful statement, conceptually and physically, about Boston’s increasingly dire affordable housing predicament.
Critical Commentary: A Few Thoughts about John Simon
Few critics proclaimed that the emperor was naked as a jaybird with as much savvy panache.
Music Commentary: Why You Should Buy 45s
Let the unimaginative people diddle around with their baseball cards and stamp collections. This is the kind of irrational, eccentric passion that you will be remembered for.
Music Commentary: The Black Crowes — Redux?
When have the Robinsons ever done what was expected on them? And when have they ever really cared?