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Visual Arts Review: “Cat Mazza: Network” — Weaving Technology and Tradition in Political Art

February 10, 2025
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This show uses an impressively clever use of technology to create sign posts on a path through labor history, psychiatry, and textile design.

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Film Review: “Armand” — Drowning in Portent

February 10, 2025
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In his debut feature, director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel mistakes gratuitous strangeness for genuinely uncanny adventure.

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Book Review: “Making No Compromise” — The Story of the “Little Review” That Could

February 8, 2025
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The book continually underlines the important cultural role little magazines played, and how women were central to their existence as founders, editors, contributors, critics, and patrons.

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Book Review: The Many Faces of Elaine May

February 7, 2025
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This extraordinary cultural figure has yet to receive the biography she deserves.

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Film Festival Reviews: Sundance Offered a Mix of Films as Festival Sought a New Home

February 6, 2025
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My guess is that if Sundance survives, it won’t look like the Sundance we know.

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Theater Review: “Life & Times of Michael K” — Refusing to Be Erased

February 5, 2025
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This moving, at times beautiful, production evokes Michael K’s vision of purity, a rejection of collective cruelty and madness that asserts human dignity’s last stand — as an animal.

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“Dread of Winter” Series at the Brattle Theatre — Evil Is Best Served Cold

February 4, 2025
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There’s always a fair bit of horror in the mix, as well as thrillers and dramas. Each entry has a chilly darkness at its core — these are stories that often abound with themes of cruelty, grief, terror, and dread.

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Book Review: “Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation” — More of the Same

February 4, 2025
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At some point during the writing of the book, Ken Turan must have realized, sadly, that the Mayer/Thalberg/MGM story has been done to death. All he could do was what he did: tell well what had been told well before.

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Children’s Book Reviews: A Trio of Stories that Spotlight Healing and Helpful Friendships

February 4, 2025
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Three stories highlight the special benefits of friendship — between the old and young, and among children of different backgrounds.

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Book Review: “Leonardo da Vinci — An Untraceable Life”

February 3, 2025
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This book is an anti-biography that argues Leonardo had little interest in autobiographical self-promotion and claims that the many gaps in the historical record prevent him from cohering as a biographical subject

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