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Book Review: A Biography of John Berger — A Seminal Artist and Thinker

December 26, 2019
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If you have not read John Berger, by the end of this biography you’re likely to feel an urgent need to pick up one of his books.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Two Books and a Play — Creating Architectural Literacy

April 6, 2022
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Given the current state of play, any attempts to enrich our knowledge of the built environment are valuable.

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The Judicial Review — What Is It?

April 5, 2010
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There is now an eighth Judicial Review, with the panel deliberating on the Boston University College of Fine Arts production of the 1990 Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical “Assassins,” which looks at the lives and sensibilities of men and women who attempted (successfully or otherwise) to kill the President of the United States. Below: background on…

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Music Documentary Review: “Music Under the Swastika” — Uncomfortably Timely

April 23, 2023
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The road to ultimate destruction is lined by spiritual apathy, intellectual carelessness, and moral equivalency.

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Book Review: At the Opaque Heart of Life — The Short Stories of Sait Faik

February 27, 2015
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Sometimes called the “Turkish Balzac” and, more often, the “Turkish Chekhov,” Sait Faik actually had a literary vision all his own.

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Theater Commentary: Happy 400th Birthday to Ben Jonson’s “Catiline: His Conspiracy”

August 10, 2011
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Multiple Google searches suggest that no one is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the second of Ben Jonson’s tragedies. I don’t think I will live to see a production of CATILINE, but attention should be paid to this awkward but powerful script. Filled with moral strength, perceptive realpolitik, and rich poetry, it proffers a brilliant serio-comic meditation on political gangsterism.

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Book Review: Summer Reading Retrospective — Vanishing Is The Thing

September 16, 2012
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The big theme in fiction this summer was the resonance of disappearance — seen as satire, as melodrama, and as tragedy.

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Visual Arts: HarborArts “OccupyING the Present” Brings Boston Harbor to Life

August 19, 2013
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The Boston Harbor Shipyard is a nifty setting for public art, redolent of old-school fisherman and maritime work. Its fading grandeur of weatherbeaten brick buildings, crumbling facades and stern signage sometimes rivaled the formal artwork.

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Toons Online

June 24, 2006
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By Danielle Dreilinger Web artists specializing in alternative comics are finding readers and discovering new ways for the arts to profit online.

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Jazz Album Review: Andrew Hill’s “A Beautiful Day, Revisited” — Well Worth the Return Trip

October 15, 2024
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The recording proves to be both an excellent example of Andrew Hill’s unusual creative methods, particularly the wonderful results he managed to get with ensembles.

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