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Visual Arts Counter-View: Celebrating the Art of Thomas Hart Benton

June 29, 2015
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Looked at on his own terms Thomas Hart Benton is an American Master and deserves to be reconsidered.

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Film Review: “A Swedish Love Story” — The Angst of Desire

June 28, 2015
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In A Swedish Love Story, Roy Andersson muses on the meaning of life, but for the first and last time he expresses his sense of life’s absurdity through an accessible plot line.

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Dance Review: A Heartfelt “Cinderella” at Jacob’s Pillow

June 27, 2015
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Cinderella isn’t a lavish spectacle à la the Met, but rather, like its heroine, modest on the surface while pulsing with a generous heart underneath.

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Theater Review: “The Wakeville Stories” – Theater as Civic Ritual

June 26, 2015
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Dramatist Laurence Carr has a gift for vivid characterization and for creating a concrete sense of time and place.

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Film Review: The Art of Being Frozen — Two Powerful Films from Roy Andersson

June 26, 2015
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The overriding theme in Roy Andersson’s films is the conflict between human frailty and our delusions of control.

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Visual Art Feature: Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum — An Experience of Tranquility

June 25, 2015
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The Aga Khan Museum should also be appreciated as a source of inspiration.

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Opera Review: Thomas Adès’ “Powder Her Face” — Scandalously Relevant

June 25, 2015
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Powder Her Face proved the perfect capstone to Odyssey Opera’s month-long survey of British (mostly comic) opera: biting, darkly humorous, provocative, and relevant.

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Film Review: A Quartet of Discoveries at the Provincetown International Film Festival

June 25, 2015
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Reviews of four strong independent films that may — or may not — be coming to a screen near you.

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Theater Review: Happy Medium Theatre’s “Dying City” — Inventive Intimacy

June 25, 2015
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Happy Medium Theatre’s powerful production is a testament to how the artists in our area are triumphing over the economic adversity.

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Rock Concert Review: Rush — Celebrating 40 Years of Prog-Rock

June 24, 2015
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One thing I’ve learned in years of being a Rush fan: Nobody ever changes their mind on this band.

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