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Coming Attractions: Jazz Week Special Edition

April 23, 2010
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By J. R. Carroll Coming Attractions in Jazz for April 2010 unfortunately was washed away by the Waters of March (“It’s the mud, it’s the mud”), but we couldn’t let this year’s Jazz Week slip by without highlighting a few of the numerous events taking place in the Boston metro area from Friday, April 23,…

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Visual Arts Review: Marks from Elsewhere — Cy Twombly and Léonie Guyer

February 28, 2023
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It’s no wonder poets have been drawn to write about Guyer and Twombly’s work. We are carried away by an art that is always immediate, hic et nunc, but elsewhere too.

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Film Review: “Armageddon Time” — Falling Between Two Worlds

October 24, 2022
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In James Gray’s new film, the tragedy and pain behind Jewish assimilation lurks just out of frame.

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Arts Feature: Music That Sustained Us Through the Year of the Pandemic

December 15, 2020
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With concerts all but wiped off the calendar by the pandemic, our critics naturally spent their time with recordings (and virtual live shows).

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Poetry Review: “Winter Recipes From the Collective” — Louise Glück’s Cold Comfort

December 21, 2021
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The poems in Winter Recipes from the Collective are about bearing with life in a barren place; they do the kind of singing Bertolt Brecht said was necessary when dealing with “the dark times.”

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Film Review: Back from the Moscow International Film Festival

July 2, 2013
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Russian intellectuals privately grasp that they must seem like jackasses to the outside world with their primitive attitudes about homosexuality, aligning not with Western Europe but with Nigeria and Uganda and the Muslim world.

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Visual Arts Review: Known and Mysterious—Wendy Artin’s Watercolors in “From the Roman Studio”

November 30, 2015
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Wendy Artin finds beauty everywhere – in a clutch of beets, old paintbrushes, ruined statues, the human body.

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Film Feature: Making “Speer Goes to Hollywood”

December 19, 2021
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Albert Speer, Hitler’s pet architect and the vaunted “glamour boy of the Third Reich, would have hated Vanessa Lapa’s unblinking and unforgiving documentary, which is the best recommendation I can give it.

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Arts Remembrance: “Purified Modernist” William Gass — A Wizard of the Word

January 6, 2018
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William Gass’s primal loyalty was to the words composing his texts.

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Coming Attractions in Jazz: Early Summer Festivals 2012

May 31, 2012
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Heading north this weekend? Whether you’re traveling all the way to Burlington, VT, or just to the left bank of the Charles, summer 2012’s jazz festival season is off to a fine start. Then, the action mid-month shifts south to New Haven.

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