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“Rust” is an old-school Western with some fine performances, a violent edge, and a lot of heart.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
An independent film festival presents works that expose audiences to diverse voices, to alternative political and social points of view, and to different ways of understanding the world.
This week’s poem: Danielle Legros Georges’s “The Two Liberations of Crispus Attucks”
After more than a quarter century, with an impressive new venue serving as a platform, Radius Ensemble continues to expand its musical reach.
Little Feat is on the cusp of a rebirth – again.
All of the gritty challenges for today’s ballet companies are touched on in “Étoile”, including financial troubles, union strikes, rapaciously controlling donors, jealous, egomaniacal dancers, and more bumps in the road.
Every subject in Jim Dine’s richly rendered work seems to edge towards something other than itself, deeper and more personal.
I wish this catalogue spelled out John Singer Sargent’s professional stance as a “juste milieu” painter more methodically. That term refers to those eager to be associated with new stylistic tendencies yet careful not to transgress the establishment’s norms.
The Independent Film Festival Boston has been a major showcase for short films from New England and beyond. Here’s a roundup of one of this year’s programs, “Shorts Dartmouth: Narrative” (collections are named after streets in the Back Bay). There’s not a weak one in the five-film bunch.
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