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Visual Arts Review: A Painter Among Poets — Grace Hartigan’s “Gift of Attention”

November 3, 2025
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The exhibit highlights the interplay between Grace Hartigan and the circle of modern poets who became her friends, supporters, and in some cases, patrons.

Concert Review: Club d’Elf — Where Trance Meets Revelation

November 2, 2025
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If any out-there band deserves the opportunity to be in-here, Club d’Elf is it.

Arts Remembrance: Mario Diacono, 1930-2025 — A Tribute

November 1, 2025
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Mario Diacono’s works were a guide – a guide to see and think deeply about words and images.

November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

November 1, 2025
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Theater Review: Manual Cinema’s “The 4th Witch” — A Hallucinatory Vision of War and Witchcraft

October 31, 2025
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Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” serves as a springboard for a memorable new vision by these inventive, multimedia theater artists.

Classical Album Review: Nielsen Clarinet Concerto, Symphony No. 5

October 31, 2025
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A new recording of Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5 from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner captures much of what makes the composer’s writing in it sound so fresh.

Concert Review: Herbie Hancock at the Boch Center Wang Theatre

October 30, 2025
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 At 85, Herbie Hancock can still funk it up.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 30, 2025
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The week’s poem: Shira Dentz’s “Foretold”

Visual Arts Review: A Glitch in the System — American Artist’s Homage to Octavia Butler

October 30, 2025
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Some critics will consider the work in this show extreme, but one of the many strengths of American Artist lies in the fact that they draw on Butler’s prescient dystopian vision, elements of which are becoming a reality.

Children’s Book Reviews: The Natural World and Beyond

October 30, 2025
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Three beautiful new picture books for kids about nature, color, and gardening will inspire, inform, and delight.

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