Review
A polished, detail-rich account of two lyrical concertos, distinguished more by clarity and refinement than by risk or fire.
Despite striking choreography and a tour-de-force lead, the A.R.T.’s adaptation of Black Swan can’t escape the film’s excesses—or its own thin score.
At this year’s festival, films by Greg Araki and others explore erotic power, artistic identity, and spiritual unease—alongside a quietly inspiring portrait of painter Anne Packard.
Oliver Hilmes’s “Summer of Freedom” offers vivid snapshots of 1945—but little sense of why the world changed.
A Provincetown exhibition pairs data and aesthetics to reveal how artists and scientists alike are driven to understand—and protect—the ocean’s shifting world.
A queer horror romance turns conversion therapy into a chilling supernatural curse—and a potent metaphor for fear, shame, and survival.
Ryuya Suzuki’s DIY animated epic fuses pop-idol satire, existential dread, and apocalyptic spectacle into a singular coming-of-age saga.
A major Alexander Calder exhibition reveals how movement, once radical, has been absorbed into the grammar of contemporary perception.
A Cornish folk-horror reverie where sound and image eclipse story, evoking the erosion of community and the fragility of working-class life.
When a favorite artist disappoints, is the fault in our stars or in ourselves?
The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll at Mid-Year: Warming Up a Riff — How It Happened, and Why It Matters