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Visual Arts Review: A Fruitful Exchange — “Believers: Artists and the Shakers”

March 18, 2025
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The exchange proved to be as fruitful for the artists as it was for the Shakers.

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Book Review: “After Spaceship Earth” — Seriously Spaced-Out

March 18, 2025
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In her stimulating book, Eva Díaz presents more than 30 conceptually minded artists who “reconsider how the applications of technologies used in near and outer space, once billed as progressive and exploratory, are today rife with negative effects such as resource depletion and privatization, economic inequality, and racial and gender domination.”

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Concert Review: Rolling Thunder — The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Violinist Ray Chen

March 18, 2025
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Violinist Ray Chen and the BSO delivered one of the most seismic performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto that I’ve heard.

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Film Review: “Queen of the Ring” — A Spotlight on the Early Ladies of Wrestling 

March 17, 2025
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With its fabulous ’50s costumes and visceral wrestling scenes, “Queen of the Ring” is a blast from the past.

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Book Review: “Capital’s Grave” — We Need a Different System

March 17, 2025
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Staffed with billionaires including Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, and Trump himself, a reputed billionaire, the present administration is made up of the country’s lords — and we are their serfs.

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Film Review: “Black Bag” — High Fidelity

March 17, 2025
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Two cheers for monogamy in Steven Soderbergh’s “Black Bag”

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At the Berlin Film Festival: Radu Jude’s Journey Into Guilt, Plus a Young Peter Hujar and an Earnest Jessica Chastain

March 16, 2025
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In Berlin, the closest thing to a consensus on “Kontinental ’25” was that the film didn’t measure up to Romanian director Radu Jude’s customary standards. My view is that the critics didn’t look hard enough.

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Film Review: “The Rule of Jenny Pen” — Age, I Do Abhor Thee

March 15, 2025
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A provocative commentary on our need to recognize our our common humanity, the film is, at its heart, a painfully cautionary tale.

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Doc Talk: Beauty and Truth at the National Center for Jewish Film’s Film Festival

March 14, 2025
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Two essential documentaries look at the legacies of Leni Riefenstahl and Elie Wiesel.

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Theater Review: A Powerful “Parade” — Witnessing a Dark Chapter in American History

March 14, 2025
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The sprawling cast — 30-plus players — under Michael Arden’s direction performs with verve; they deliver outstanding performances and have excellent singing chops.

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