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Visual Arts Review: Of Cows and the Cosmos — Sharon Yates at the Whistler House Museum of Art

July 1, 2013
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Painter Sharon Yates’ patience and devotion breathes depth and character into a seemingly banal subject: cow pastures.

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Arts Commentary — Big Money for Artist Activists From the Robert Rauschenberg Estate

September 8, 2014
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It’s important for there to be funds, curators, institutions, and audiences for art that can speak truth to power in unconstrained ways.

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Music Feature: Longy School of Music of Bard College — Going Strong at 100

May 20, 2016
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Celebrating Longy’s rich past has been a big part of the school’s focus these past months.

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Music Festival Review: Metalfest 2024 — A Peak Celebration of Heaviness

September 25, 2024
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This year’s edition of Metalfest matched the fabled fests of yore – a point not lost on many of the bands that performed, many of them making note on stage that the metal world had somehow been made right again.

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Festival Review: Beach Road Weekend — A Lighthouse Beacon for Music Fans

August 31, 2022
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This version of Beach Road Weekend marked a huge step to the event joining Newport Folk and Solid Sound among New England’s marquee mid-size festivals.

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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 Interview: Thomas Kitson on a Neglected Gem of Russian Modernism

August 3, 2017
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Iliazd is more interested in working through all the possible reasons that generate behavior rather than grappling with issues of morality.

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Book Review: Natasha Trethewey’s “The House of Being” — Safeguarding the Imagination

April 9, 2024
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Protecting the imagination — whether our own or others — means encouraging questions about whose voice isn’t being heard and why, whose words are being erased, and whose stories unsettle the status quo.

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Arts Remembrance: Film Critic Michael Wilmington — A Memory

January 13, 2022
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Remembering film critic Michael Wilmington, a unique guy, and friend, whom I knew for 53 years.

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Book Review: “Robert E. Lee and Me” — An Incomplete Reckoning

May 16, 2021
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This is a noble effort to reconcile with the Southern past — but are suggested changes in nomenclature — rather than statements of moral and political clarity — good enough?

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