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Winter 2025 Appeal — Keep the Fuse Lit!

December 1, 2025
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This year we received the largest single donation in our history — $25,000. That gift inspired us to raise another $25,000 this holiday season to invest in our future.

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Arts Remembrance: Jimmy Cliff (1944-2025)

November 26, 2025
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Up until the end, it seems, Jimmy Cliff was still seeing clearly — and eager to share that vision with us.

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Cultural Commentary: France Marks the 10th Anniversary of the Bataclan Attacks

November 15, 2025
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The aftermath of a terrorist act becomes an opportunistic event for those selling us a certain bill of partisan geo-political goods… while simultaneously diminishing our latitude as citizens.

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Cultural Commentary: Cryptocurrency and Artists, A Match Made in Heaven? Or Hell?

November 6, 2025
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Our financial establishment is being hijacked in a car driven by a greedy, vengeful man, his industry cronies and a doormat Congress cowering meekly in the back seat.

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Visual Arts Commentary: What Would It Be Like If Women Ruled Israel and Gaza?

October 27, 2025
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Perhaps asking that Judy Chicago’s exhibition not come was a necessary strategy in the short term, to help end Israeli brutality. But the lesson her show teaches us is necessary in the long term, so that Israelis will stop glorifying that very same brutality.

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Arts Remembrance: Lenny Bruce — On the 100th Anniversary of his Birth

October 13, 2025
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Raise a glass to Lenny Bruce, champion for—and martyr to—Americans’ First Amendment right to free speech. October 13, 2025, is the hundredth anniversary of his birth in Mineola, New York.

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Arts Commentary: Five Things Arts Organizations Can Do Right Now

September 15, 2025
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Now is a time for artists and arts organizations to stand shoulder to shoulder with other fields and disciplines that produce care in our communities.

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Theater Commentary: Boston Fall Theater Preview — Rinse and Repeat and Repeat and Repeat …

July 30, 2025
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My hunch is that not only theater critics but audiences will find the parade of tried and true tiresome.

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Arts Commentary: Essential Inquiries — “40 Questions About a Political Play”

July 1, 2025
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“A play is political if its subject is taboo and its story mirrors, exposes, and critiques the suppression and repression that interferes with the treatment of a cultural disease. A political play is a problem that is ignored, denied, maligned. A political play is, by definition, unpopular.”

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Cultural Commentary: Time for Arts Groups, Large and Small, to Display Some Bona Fide Irreverence

June 25, 2025
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The question before arts organizations and companies is the same one that looms over the rest of us: will they—can they—act before it’s too late?

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