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Opera Review: Sound, Charcoal, and Memory: The Many Layers of William Kentridge’s “Sibyl”

October 22, 2025
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Scribble, smudge, repeat: the passage of time and the emergence and dissipation of information conveys the difficult work of experiencing coherence and retaining memory.

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Film Review: Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind” Turns Art Theft into Existential Drift

October 22, 2025
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“The Mastermind” points to the impossibility of trying to live as though the outside world and its politics don’t exist.

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Dance Review: From Light to Darkness, Music from the Sole Finds Its Groove

October 21, 2025
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The blend of rhythmic dance and gorgeous music made for a very harmonious collaboration.

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Visual Arts Review: Enduring Abstraction — Indigenous Artists Reclaim the Present at the ICA

October 21, 2025
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By engaging with this work, museum visitors are likely to gain a greater appreciation for — and understanding of — the wide-ranging talents of Indigenous artists.

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Book Review: Ha Jin’s “Looking for Tank Man”: Memory, Erasure, and the Weight of Exile

October 21, 2025
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This is the story of powerless little people caught up in a confusing maelstrom, at the receiving end of senseless violence.

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Book Review: “I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms” — Nancy Shear’s Harmonious Life in Music

October 21, 2025
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How our memoirist and the man who shook Mickey Mouse’s hand crossed paths is characteristic of the author’s good fortune and perseverance.

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Film Festival Preview: GlobeDocs Film Festival 2025 — A Varied Mix of Documentaries

October 20, 2025
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Our critic watched a half-dozen films in this year’s GlobeDocs Film Festival and shares his thoughts.

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Film Review: Hal Hartley’s “Where to Land” — Intimations of Mortality

October 19, 2025
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Director Hal Hartley is an old-school romantic, one who sees human frailty and longing not as invitations to despair but as reasons to take part in the joy of living.

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Classical Music Album: Kevin Puts’ Orchestral Works — Plenty to Admire, Even Love

October 19, 2025
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This is a terrific compendium of new music of the best sort: the kind that’s brilliantly written, expressively direct, played with assurance, and engineered with clarity and warmth.

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Dispatch #4 from the New York Film Festival: Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” 

October 18, 2025
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In “Nouvelle Vague,” director Richard Linklater thrillingly captures the sense of Jean-Luc Godard as an artist feeling his way in real time, as if in a dark room, toward a new vision.

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