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Concert Review: At Tanglewood, Tedeschi Trucks Band Turns Its Debut Into a Sweeping Musical Journey

September 4, 2026
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Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, and their 12-piece ensemble moved effortlessly from blues and soul to free jazz, psychedelia, and a deeply felt “Ohio.”

Book Review: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Art of Attribution

September 3, 2026
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In a revised study of the celebrated sixteenth-century painter, Michael W. Cole traces how family support, artistic training, and scholarly revision shaped her legacy.

Opera Album Review: Stenhammar’s “Tirfing” Emerges as a Scandinavian Wagnerian Treasure

September 3, 2026
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Arnold Östman’s first complete recording makes a powerful case for Wilhelm Stenhammar’s long-neglected Norse opera—despite the intrusive directorial alterations preserved from Malmö Opera’s 2011 staging.

Visual Arts Review: Picasso, Miró, Dalí—Between Their Pages

September 2, 2026
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The MFA exhibition brings viewers close to the remarkable printed books in which Spanish modernists and French writers fused art and literature.

Book Review: The Enigmatic Miniatures of Diane Williams’s “I Liked Rex”

September 1, 2026
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These micro-fictions can feel slight, funny, or confounding—but their strange imagery and off-kilter observations occasionally land with surprising force.

Film Review: “Buddy” Turns Children’s-TV Cheer Into a Nightmare of Control

August 31, 2026
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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.

Classical Music Album: Radius Ensemble’s Spirited “Carnival”

August 31, 2026
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On its lively new recording, the Boston chamber group gives buoyant, colorful, and sharply characterized performances of three works by a longtime MIT composer.

Classical Album Review: Duo Gazzana plays Prokofiev, Pärt, and Schnittke with Bracing Insight

August 29, 2026
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The sisters’ new ECM recording catches the volatile interplay of lyricism and menace in a compellingly programmed set.

Visual Arts Review: Elsie Kagan’s Uncanny Waters

August 28, 2026
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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.

Dance Review: Huang Yi’s “Ink” Writes the Body into Darkness

August 28, 2026
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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.

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