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Visual Arts Review: “Showdown!” at the MFA — More Like Kumbaya!

August 20, 2017
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A face-off between these two artists is ridiculous because picking a favorite is pointless.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet – Revisiting

March 12, 2018
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What a treat to see choreographers of different generations concentrating on ballet itself and asking the audience to appreciate what ballet can do.

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Visual Arts: Stunning “Intersections” at Peabody Essex Museum

February 25, 2016
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In a period of radicalism and terrorism, this installation serves as a beacon for remembering the beauty of the best of Islamic creative culture.

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Book Review: “John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits” — Mugs Galore!

August 11, 2025
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Quibbles aside, this book’s profusion of illustrations is a windfall for artists, art students, and those keen on close looking and visual culture.

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Classical Album Reviews: Dvorak Symphonies from Atlanta and Prague

November 2, 2024
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Not all of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conductor Nathalie Stutzmann’s ideas about Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony add up, but there is not much to argue with in Czech Philharmonic Orchestra director Semyon Bychkov’s take on Dvorak’s Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies. 

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Film Review: “The Bikeriders” – Born to be Riled

June 21, 2024
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A 1968 book of photos and interviews on a motorcycle club makes a fictionalized transition to the screen.

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Dance Review: Brazil’s Grupo Corpo — Floating Free

November 1, 2023
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Grupo Corpo’s dancers are as technically astute as other top dance companies, but they excel at conveying a lushness of movement that feels sensual rather than sexual.

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Classical Album Review: Escher String Quartet — Barber & Ives String Quartets

September 19, 2021
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Here is an outstanding recording from the Escher String Quartet of music by two stylistically divergent 20th-century American composers, Samuel Barber and Charles Ives.

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Film Review: “Proud” — What It Means to Exist as a Gay Person in France

June 19, 2020
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Proud excels when it makes the political personal, utilizing its characters as affecting markers for changing minds and hearts.

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Theater Review – “Gloria” Squanders an Iconic Life

February 6, 2020
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The main problem with Gloria is its expository storytelling. Events are mostly announced and described rather than recreated.

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