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Arts Interview: The Late E.L. Doctorow — Reduced to Art

July 24, 2015
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“When people ask how I became interested in history, I answer it was through an interest in popular culture and disreputable genres.”

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Theater Review: Apollinaire’s “Blood Wedding”: A Rural Tragedy on the Chelsea Waterfront

July 24, 2015
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Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding remains edgier than most American fare in this century.

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Film Review: Boston MFA French Film Festival — “Party Girl,” Gray Panther Division

July 23, 2015
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Party Girl has won a plethora of festival awards, including two at Cannes in 2014.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Boston City Hall — A ‘Triumph’ of Brutalism

July 23, 2015
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Urban pollution and acid rain have not dealt kindly with Boston City Hall’s mostly concrete facade.

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Film Review: Boston MFA’s French Film Festival — The Beautiful Idiosyncrasy of “P’tit Quinquin”

July 23, 2015
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The film proffers a winning combination of goofy humor and social critique.

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Film Review: MFA’s French Film Festival — A Congenial “Easy Way Out”

July 23, 2015
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The star of The Easy Way Out is its splendidly quick pacing, which gives it more of the feel of an American film than one would expect.

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Film Review: At the MFA’s French Film Festival — A Vivacious “Chic!”

July 22, 2015
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Mechanical as Chic!’s story is, it is rare to have this kind of French fluff put across with so much charm and vivacity.

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Theater Review: “Kinship” at Williamstown Theatre Festival– No Sex in the City

July 22, 2015
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In Kinship, dramatist Carey Perloff hasn’t found a language that conveys irrational longing.

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Fuse Dance Book Review: “The Ballet Lover’s Companion” — One Way of Looking at it

July 22, 2015
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Zoë Anderson’s volume aims to give readers a handy way to discern the most influential ballets from among the confusing proliferation that we find in today’s repertory.

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Classical CD Reviews: Isabelle Faust plays Schumann and the Dmitri Ensemble plays Shostakovich Chamber Symphonies

July 22, 2015
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Listening to Isabelle Faust’s performance of Schumann’s Violin Concerto I wondered why the piece has remained on the fringes of the repertoire for so long.

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