Commentary
Our classical music critics supply their favorites, albums and concerts, from over the past year.
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The magazine’s jazz critics look back over the past year and highlight their favorite albums and live shows.
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Providence-area professional theaters have fared better than most in terms of surviving and rebounding from the pandemic.
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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?
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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.
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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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In many ways, “Now and Then” is the fitting gift — a single closing bookend, which Paul McCartney has called the Beatles’ last record.
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It’s good to discover that George Scialabba is as lively as ever and that “Only a Voice” is filled with provocative arguments that make the reader want to argue right back.
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The journalistic value of blathering out weekend tips to the ears of the comfortable in a social media world awash with likes is dubious.
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Arts Feature: The Best of Visual Arts and Design, 2023
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.
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