Commentary
Those who admire Yang Jisheng’s distinguished career should pick up this book. Those searching for a solid, accessible history of Mao’s Cultural Revolution should look elsewhere.
Director Chloé Zhao evokes the refreshing experience of freedom felt at the end of a nomad’s typical work day.
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.
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.
It was the most terrifying of times, it was the most horrifying of times.
Why are Boston stages reacting so serenely to our current miasmas — pandemical, political, economic, and spiritual.
An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.
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.
Arts Publication Interview: The Coming of “Caesura” — Sustaining the Freedom of Art
“The gallery system, publishing houses, and critical reviews — all that facilitates the production and criticism sides of art’s dialectic — need to be reconsidered.”
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