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Visual Arts Feature: Leonard Cohen — Peering Behind the Public Persona

December 15, 2022
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Despite Leonard Cohen’s outward humility, he was, in fact, an artist who very much cultivated acclaim, and wanted that attention to endure.

Theater Feature: From Page to Stage — The Craft of Theatrical Adaptation, Part One

September 4, 2013
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“A great novel makes for the best script an actor could imagine,” said actor Colin Firth recently, on accepting an award for his reading of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair. Many theatergoers would agree.

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.

Theater Review: “Exposed” — A Toothless “Tartuffe” Update

December 14, 2015
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A genuine satirist kicks against all the pricks, relishing that he or she might challenge rather than placate audiences.

Film Reviews: Tribeca Docs — An Artist Confronts Iran’s Mullahs, Culture Rebuilds in Ukraine

June 21, 2023
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By David D’Arcy At the Tribeca Film Festival this year, documentaries led the way as usual. A Revolution on Canvas (Untitled Nicky Nodjoumi), directed by Till Schauder and Sara Nodjoumi, is an ambitious look at one family’s experience of the Iranian dynastic dictatorship and its successor, the Iranian Islamic revolution. The film is the story…

Visual Arts Review: “Nurture: Empathy for the Earth” — Imagining Healing the Planet

October 24, 2024
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This show brings together works that emphasize an optimistic view of where we are by dramatizing ways in which we can develop a more empathetic connection with the struggling environment.

Film Review: “The Dig” — The Depths of Discovery

February 13, 2021
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The Dig is suffused with a very English (and problematic) sense of history: why it matters, how it can be taken for granted, and the odd way that certain elements of the past are valorized while others are kept buried.

Rock Album Review: Bright Eyes Return — and They Haven’t Missed a Beat

September 7, 2020
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Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was is a natural next step forward for Bright Eyes, evolving while remaining true to their core identity.

Theater Feature: Best Stage Productions of 2017

December 28, 2017
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Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.

Film Review: Lars Von Trier’s Nifty “Nymphomaniac: Volume 1”

March 20, 2014
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What makes Lars von Trier one of cinema’s most fascinating directors? It is his willingness to pull out the stops in a riotous search to understand his own mind and ask questions about human nature. His films are a quest to find himself.

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