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Visual Arts Review: “Raven’s Many Gifts” at PEM — When Cultures Collide

May 29, 2014
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How much can a “native” artist adopt from Western modernism before his arts loses its tribal identity and, along with it, its appeal to an outside market?

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No Medals for Human Rights

June 25, 2008
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By Bill Marx Hu Jia, a freelance writer, civil rights, environmental and AIDS activist, was arrested in 2007 on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power.” Last week the PEN American Center announced it was sending out letters to the Bush Administration and Congressional leaders protesting, fifty days before the start of the Olympics, the…

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Jazz Album Review: Pianist Erroll Garner — The Best Tunes Played with Mucho Gusto

June 25, 2020
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Thanks to Octave and Mack Avenue Records, a significant section of pianist Erroll Garner’s storied career is back, sounding better than ever before.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — May 20

May 20, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair” — More Relevant Than Ever

May 25, 2024
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We should take courage from this splendid work about how truth and justice triumphed over stupidity and prejudice, and how much the loyalty and love and determination of one remarkable family could accomplish a hundred and thirty years ago.

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Film Preview: Independently Ours — IFFBoston Celebrates Another Year of Community

April 24, 2019
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As always, IFFBoston’s Executive Director Brian Tamm and Program Director Nancy Campbell have curated a stellar lineup of films that promises to represent the very best of current American and international cinema.

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Theater Review: “Steel Magnolias” — Female Bonding

July 24, 2019
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Over thirty years after it premiered, the script remains touching and funny, with the added merit that it provides a refreshing respite from the sour discourse of 2019.

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Theater Review: “Ada and the Engine” — A Free-Spirited Young Female Math Wiz in Victorian England

October 1, 2022
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You don’t have to be a math wiz to enjoy Lauren Gunderson’s engaging historical drama, which has been effectively staged by director Debra Wise.

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Dance Review: Twyla Tharp’s Boston Show

December 17, 2018
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Dressed in cream-colored pants, a crisp white shirt, sneakers, and big owlish spectacles with red plastic frames, Twyla Tharp played the professor in the first part of the 90-minute show.

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Dance Review: The Sugar Rush of Boston Ballet’s “Nutcracker’

December 1, 2016
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Never mind my analytical observations, the Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker is still an immediate pleasure.

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