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Visual Arts Review: At the Shelburne Museum — Homegrown Moderns

July 19, 2015
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The show is unabashedly American in subject matter and form: Realism is as much an influence as Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and the other European –isms.

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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard

December 2, 2025
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One of the great playwrights of the 20th century, Tom Stoppard wrote to entertain, but with intellectual rigor.

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Theater Review: “Trick or Treat” — A Domestic Horror Show

January 22, 2017
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A less skilled playwright might have gone for the obvious and focused on mercy-killing and the ravages of Alzheimer’s.

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Visual Arts Review: A Trio of Shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography

December 22, 2024
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A look at three exhibitions of photography — two of them shine a revealing light on personal and political concerns.

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Coming Attractions in Underground Music: April 2011

January 26, 2011
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April brings lifted spirits, the Together Electronic Music Festival and psychedelia. The Deep Heaven Now Festival features psych, ambient and shoegaze music. The Together Music Festival has a heavy lineup full of dance and electronic music.

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Film Review: Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down — “Hit So Hard”

September 20, 2012
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Musician Patty Schemel’s slow climb to sobriety and wellness serves as the gripping backbone of the documentary “Hit So Hard,” to the point that it is difficult to believe that someone thumped so severely lived to tell her story.

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Film Review: “Shirley” — Domestic Witchcraft

June 5, 2020
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Shirley is hard to watch, hard to resist, and deeply, deliciously haunting.

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Book Review: “The Horse” — Portrait of a Self-Abusive Artist

August 18, 2024
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“The Horse” probes the psyche of a man who believes, despite all that has happened to him, in the possibility of renewal.

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Film Review: Here Comes “The Judge” — A Case of Melodramatic Manslaughter

October 10, 2014
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The good parts of The Judge make the its missteps more painful to watch.

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Book Review: A Provocative Memoir about Growing up Gay in Japan

February 20, 2013
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American readers will be intrigued by a language for sexuality that is plain but understated, neither vulgar nor coy.

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