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October Short Fuses — Materia Critica

October 1, 2025
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Theater Review: “Escaped Alone” and “Come and Go” — Forms of Disconnection

March 8, 2019
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To be truly effective black humor must have us laughing at something we fear, regret, or at the very least recognize.

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Music Remembrance: John Abercrombie — From Chuck Berry to Chamber Jazz, With Stops Along the Way

August 23, 2017
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John Abercrombie, one of the great improvisers, died on August 22, after a long illness.

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Coming Attractions in Theater: August 2010

July 31, 2010
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The summer season winds down with (too) many of the usual crowd-pleasers, enlivened by a couple of world premieres, a re-vamping of an Oscar Wilde warhorse, and an encounter with non-being, courtesy of Edward Albee. By Bill Marx The Taster by Joan Ackermann. Directed by Tina Packer. Staged by Shakespeare & Company at the Founders’…

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Arts Remembrance: Mario Diacono, 1930-2025 — A Tribute

November 1, 2025
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Mario Diacono’s works were a guide – a guide to see and think deeply about words and images.

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Coming Attractions at Museums: March 2011

March 4, 2011
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Highlights this month in museums around New England include an exhibition of poetic and playful furniture, photographs and videos that radically rethink how a museum should treat art objects, and a show featuring an African artist who specializes in large, shimmering sculptures composed of recycled liquor bottle tops. By Peter Walsh. The van Otterloo Collection,…

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Theater Review: “Out of the Mouths of Babes” — Memories of a Cad

August 19, 2017
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Israel Horovitz’s latest play delivers some fine moments of comedy as well as some dark revelations about female neediness.

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Film Review: “Come True” — Sleepless in Canada

March 18, 2021
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Come True squanders all of its narrative potential in favor of an awkward and poorly developed romance and a “twist” ending even M. Night Shyamalan would scoff at.

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Jazz Interview: Scott Robinson’s Out-of-This-World Sound Comes to the Newport Jazz Festival

July 28, 2015
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Scott Robinson brings the spirit of pulp fiction, and a love of outer space, to the Newport Jazz Festival.

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Coming Attractions at Museums: July 2010

July 5, 2010
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By Peter Walsh Charles LeDray, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA, July 16 through October 17 New York sculptor Charles LeDray is known for making very, very tiny things—especially men’s clothing—with fanatical precision and craftsmanship. Something about them fascinates. A British critic has compared his elaborate, Liliputian arrangements to “the model tankers and cruise…

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