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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
These micro-fictions can feel slight, funny, or confounding—but their strange imagery and off-kilter observations occasionally land with surprising force.
Casper Kelly’s wildly unhinged horror-comedy, featuring Keegan-Michael Key as a murderous orange unicorn, finds dark laughs—and a sharp study of abuse—inside the artificial warmth of 1990s kids’ programming.
On its lively new recording, the Boston chamber group gives buoyant, colorful, and sharply characterized performances of three works by a longtime MIT composer.
Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
The sisters’ new ECM recording catches the volatile interplay of lyricism and menace in a compellingly programmed set.
In “the drop falls” at 3S Artspace, the artist’s lush hybrid paintings bring Virginia Woolf, artificial intelligence, and ecological collapse into a seductive, disquieting flow.
Animated calligraphy, dancers in half-shadow, and two industrial robots create an eerie, elegant theater of marks, motions, and metallic afterimages at Jacob’s Pillow.
This lively live-action/animation hybrid turns the Road Runner cartoons’ eternal loser into a surprisingly moving plaintiff—and takes sharp aim at corporate impunity along the way.
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