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Concert Review: Boston Chamber Music Society enchants with Ravel and Debussy

August 21, 2012
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Despite the high level of the players, there are things a professional quartet brings to a performance or recording—uniformity of sound and style—that cannot be matched by a group cobbled together and given limited rehearsal time.

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Book Review: “The Art of Classic Planning” — How to Build Beautiful and Enduring Communities

April 1, 2020
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By so memorably reestablishing the fundamentals of urban design and planning, The Art of Classic Planning will be a strategic addition to any architecture or urban planning library.

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Opera Album Review: Oscar Wilde in the Opera House, Part 2 — Richard Flury’s Approachable “A Florentine Tragedy”

January 22, 2020
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Another operatic version of Oscar Wilde’s one-act love triangle that ends with the woman’s husband murdering her lover, to her enraptured delight.

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Film Review: Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” — Reunion and Redemption

June 16, 2020
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Spike Lee examines a number of racist stereotypes that illuminate the times these men lived through, the bigoted conditions of their service and sacrifice, and their continued struggle for respect and parity.

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Book Review: “Four Princes” — Sixteenth Century Carnage

March 30, 2017
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A historian’s view of the tumultuous world of early sixteenth century Europe, an age of exploration, revolt, and religious upheaval.

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Film Review: “The Souvenir” — A Painful Past, Plainly Presented

May 27, 2019
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Verisimilitude is rarely a meaningful measure by which to judge a film, but The Souvenir is obsessed with exploring the line between documentary and narrative, reality and art.

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Visual Arts Review: Augmented Reality at Boston Cyberarts Gallery and More

May 5, 2018
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Local examples of immersive aesthetic and sensual experimentation as forms of cultural experience.

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Visual Arts Review: Design Biennial Boston 2015 — The Future? Or a Short-Term Exercise?

August 18, 2015
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Current Mayor Marty Walsh has justifiably called for better design for Boston’s new structures.

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Dance Review: Dorrance Dance’s “Blues Project” — Keeping Tap Alive

March 15, 2015
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Without being at all didactic, Michelle Dorrance reveres tap history by adapting traditional ideas, then resolving them unexpectedly.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Film (Part One)

March 26, 2021
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If you like your films “weird, sexually provocative, and intellectually stimulating” (add violence to the mix) then our critics will feed your appetite splendidly.

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