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“Strange Journey” traces the origins of one of cinema’s most unlikely cults. “Time Warp” shows why it still matters.
In “1968,” historian Alexander Bloom challenges the clichés of counterculture and reflects on a year of global rupture.
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.

Arts Commentary: The Kennedy Center and the Boston Symphony Orchestra — A Tale of Two Crises
A court-ordered reset in Washington and a self-inflicted rupture in Boston expose deeper failures of leadership, transparency, and trust.
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