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Coming Attractions at Museums: February 2010

February 5, 2010
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By Peter Walsh Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA through May 9. Locked into a low-status, unprofitable niche, talented Spanish still-life painter Luis Meléndez (1716–1780) made little money and achieved even less fame during his lifetime. He is said to have complained to the king, who never…

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Film Review: “Fidelio: Alice’s Odyssey” — Obsessively Sexual

September 27, 2015
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This film, written and directed by Lucie Borleteau, is not exactly feminist, nor need it be.

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Film Review: Want More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place? Stir-Crazy 6

June 28, 2020
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Five more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the travails of the coronavirus.

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Television Review: Netflix’s “Beef” – Don’t Tread on Me

April 16, 2023
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Beef‘s reflection on today’s growing outrage and extremism reveals a lot about class and inequality.

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October Short Fuses — Materia Critica

October 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.

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Book Review: “The House of Doors” — Changing Skies and Expanding Visions

November 2, 2023
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Against all odds, these characters test the limits of what were considered “normal lives” at that time. The testing is what gives “The House of Doors” its urgency and intimacy.

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Theater Review: “The Golden Dragon” — A Satire With Bite about International Cuisine

December 22, 2013
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In his satire “The Golden Dragon,” Roland Schimmelpfennig holds his funhouse mirror up to “theater-people”: be they artists, audience, teachers, or students.

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Book Review: A Precarious Plenitude — “Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era”

March 29, 2021
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In this beautifully written, shrewdly researched, and artfully argued book, Matthew Rafalow contends that how teachers understand and regulate their students digital know-how has profound consequences.

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Theater Review: A Musical “Moby-Dick” Lumbers from its Seabed at the A.R.T.

December 20, 2019
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Dave Malloy’s musical version of Moby-Dick shows promise, but he needs to trim plenty of blubber.

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Film Review: “Love in Taipei” — A Beautiful Travelogue

August 23, 2023
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The fact is that “Love in Taipei”’s appeal principally lies in Taipei itself: the film doubles as an extended advertisement for the city.

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