Month: July 2015
In recent years several serious artists, Amanda Parer among them, have created giant inflatable pieces with the aim of making cultural/political statements.
Read MoreA quartet of summer films that range from the excellent to the not-so-bad and the ugly.
Read MoreAn artist who readily quoted Kierkegaard? Actually, Robert Motherwell always resisted his media image, the ex-Ivy League graduate student who is a philosopher-intellectual before he is an artist.
Read MoreBruno Colson’s book is a wonder of research, and serves to shed light on the state of Napoleon’s mind.
Read MoreIn this Shaw Festival production we have something all too 21st century: the deliberate dumbing down of a complex play.
Read MoreWhile American art grew bolder, larger, louder, and more ironic, David Aronson was mystical, introspective, and poetic.
Read MoreIn this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot’s early intellectual development.
Read MoreA handy-dandy guide to seven newish summer arts festivals in the Boston area. They are all free of charge.
Read MoreThis troupe from North Carolina has managed to hit all the right prog-rock targets with music that has sweep, depth, and texture while avoiding pretension.
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