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Among this group of strong animated shorts I found the French selection, Mémorable, to be the most powerful and artful.
“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”
All in all, Color Out of Space is only OK.
A critical look at this year’s Oscar-nominated documentary shorts.
It’s hard to think of a contemporary poet who has engaged so passionately and devotedly, over many decades, with a single forebear.
Overall, Light Blue is an impressive album: its ensembles simultaneously tight and graceful, its solos expressive.
Where will the coven go from here? Its pivot away from patriarchy echoes the growing resistance of women the world over — and that is a powerful message indeed.
Who can explain why two of the five nominees are set in Tunisia? Or why several of them seem like student films?
For America to get back on track, “It will take inspired radical leadership, mass organizing, and citizen mobilization of the kind that we see only in America’s finest hours.”
Arts Commentary: All Is Not Copacetic for the Fine Arts in the Berkshires
Despite the growing number of artists in the Berkshires, there seems to be an effort, among large cultural institutions and the major media, to pretend that they are not around.
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