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Arts Remembrance: Charley Pride — The Man Who Sang Honky-Tonk Best

December 13, 2020
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When Charley Pride did display anger, it concerned how the country music establishment treated older artists.

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Film Review: Photographer Nan Goldin Makes the Sacklers Feel Pain — At the New York Film Festival

October 13, 2022
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For once, shame worked. Museums that normally court the robber barons of our era capitulated and took the Sackler name-plates down.

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TV Review: HBO’s “True Detective” — A Work in Progress

January 8, 2014
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Nic Pizzolatto’s scripts for “True Detective” have their moments but, self-consciously literary, they also are painfully overwritten.

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Visual Arts Review: “Figures of Empire” — When Racism and Art Meet

October 9, 2014
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Some fifty-five objects trace a legacy of casual brutality and white hegemony that is at the heart of Yale University’s—and this nation’s—founding.

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Book Review: “How I Survived a Chinese ‘Reeducation’ Camp” — A Desperately Needed View of China

April 25, 2022
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It is invaluable for the world to have an in-depth account from someone who passed through the Xinjiang re-education system and was brave enough to tell the tale.

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Fuse News: 2016 Grammys for Classical Music

February 16, 2016
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The big news was the well-deserved Grammy for best orchestral performance that the BSO and current music director Andris Nelsons won .

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Judicial Review #5: After the Hoopla — The MFA’s New Art of the Americas Wing

March 11, 2011
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Success assured? Critics and others discuss whether the MFA’s new wing, The Art of the Americas, lives up to the hype generated by the opening in the latest Judicial Review.

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Film Review: Calvin and the Real Girl – “Ruby Sparks” Comes to Life

September 3, 2012
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“Ruby Sparks” is more than a sweetly moving love story with a happy ending; to their credit, the filmmakers add some disturbingly nightmarish edges to its “Pygmalion” meets “Frankenstein” plotline.

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Coming Attractions in Jazz: July 2012

July 7, 2012
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Updated. In or out of doors, from Inman Square to the coast of Maine, it’s a hot July in New England. Sounds of the season–or of any season–abound, including a 25th anniversary celebration for Natraj.

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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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