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Classical CD Review: “Between The Notes – Music For Violin and Piano”

July 6, 2018
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Pianist Constantine Finehouse and violinist Daniel Kurganov are well-matched musicians, and have recorded a superb album.

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Visual Arts Review: “Whistler’s Mother” — Up Close and Personal

July 27, 2015
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With invention that suggests the work of Malevich and Mondrian, the composition is a play of rectangles.

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Visual Arts Review: M. C. Escher — Shapeshifter Extraordinaire

November 10, 2014
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M.C. Escher’s extraordinary fantasy constructions are captivating visual environments whose frisky improbability beguile.

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Arts Feature: The Best of Visual Arts and Design, 2023

December 21, 2023
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Amid the year’s chaos, art was a saving grace, civilizing and humanizing: a much needed blessing that allowed us to breathe, to inhale beauty and perhaps a whiff or two of truth.

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Concert Review: Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra at Symphony Hall

November 3, 2015
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By any measure, this is an impressive orchestra, as technically accomplished as any number of professional ensembles, domestic and international.

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Visual Arts Review: “9 Artists” at MIT — Alienation, Resignation, and Despair Made Stimulating

June 17, 2014
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After repeated visits (and you will need several to even scratch this dense content), 9 Artists begins to hang together in satisfying ways.

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Visual Arts Review: Jordan Eagles — Art Made of Blood in All Its Ruddy Glory

April 28, 2014
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Rich as the material is, can any Blood Artist develop and mature by just seeing red?

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Jazz Album Reviews: Hazards Ahead –When Jazz and Poetry Intersect

September 9, 2025
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Ideally, if the verse and the music work seamlessly together, they can create a third kind of art that is neither fish nor fowl. It can stand alone on its own merits.

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Opera Album Review: An Award-Winning Recording of a Spontini Opera Championed by Maria Callas

January 11, 2024
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Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka, under conductor Christophe Rousset, shows why Berlioz and others loved “La Vestale”.

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Book Review: “Shooting Midnight Cowboy” — A Very Good Read

May 14, 2021
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What motivated me to read this book? Not for a special love of Midnight Cowboy, a movie which I like but isn’t ultimately important to me. It was to learn about James Leo Herlihy, who has interested me since I was an adolescent.

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