Commentary
If you have not read John Berger, by the end of this biography you’re likely to feel an urgent need to pick up one of his books.
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Classical music continued to thrive, locally and globally, in 2019.
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Our demanding critics choose the best (and the most disappointing) films of the year.
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Our expert music critics serve up their usual highly eclectic round-up of the year’s most memorable.
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Our critics sound off on some of their most striking visual art experiences this year.
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An eclectic round-up of our favorite books of the year from our critics.
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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.
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With MOCK, the artist has made made an exceptionally powerful statement, conceptually and physically, about Boston’s increasingly dire affordable housing predicament.
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Few critics proclaimed that the emperor was naked as a jaybird with as much savvy panache.
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Arts Commentary: WBUR’s Clogged “ARTery”
Every organization in the Barr Foundation’s charmed circle — large arts groups and The ARTery — have a financial stake in reinforcing the belief that the Barr’s money is being put to supremely successful use.
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