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Fuse Flash: Cabal? What Cabal? Pollock Experts Move in Small Circles

December 9, 2007
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Only months ago, developments in the Pollock Matter controversies made news around the world (See past Fuse Flash and Anonymous Sources). But the Nov. 28 International Foundation for Art Research [IFAR] symposium, “Are They Pollocks? What Science Tells Us About the Matter Paintings,” drew relatively scant media notice, even though it had been billed by…

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Book Review: Peter Handke — A Writer At War With Himself

February 28, 2017
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The imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.

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Theater Review: CSC Stages a Zippy “Twelfth Night” on the Boston Common

August 2, 2014
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There are laughs in this production of Twelfth Night, but the romantic payoffs are scarce, perhaps because the sit-com rhythms tend to swamp all else (including some of the poetry).

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Theater Review: “Incident at Vichy” — The Vicissitudes of Guilt

January 23, 2017
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Praxis Stage manages to get Arthur Miller’s message across, and it is a valuable one that must be repeated well beyond the inauguration.

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Author Interview: Joan Lancourt on Junior Programs — Pioneers of Theater for Young Audiences

April 14, 2025
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Junior Programs undertook “a visionary rethinking of the potential relationship between the performing arts and the lives of the nation’s children, with the specific artistic innovations emerging organically from that rethinking”.

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Book Review: “The Power of Adrienne Rich” — An Aesthetic and Political Force

July 9, 2025
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Poet Adrienne Rich’s journey serves as a model for meeting the challenge posed for artists and the rest of us today, confronted with the rise of authoritarian forces in America.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The Berkshire Museum Violates Ethics to Sell 40 Works for $50 Million

August 5, 2017
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Why is The Berkshire Museum a sinking ship?

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Book Review: “Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv” — Revisiting Lost Optimism

October 5, 2024
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A magical realist romp of a novel with a dollop of poignancy by the great Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov.

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Stage Commentary: “The Boston Globe” to Boston Theater — Drop Dead?

November 28, 2017
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Critics were once seen as the ‘canaries in the mineshaft’ — now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.

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Theater Review: “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical” — A Glittering Glamour of a Production

December 18, 2023
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My advice: see this show in Boston before it settles into New York for what should be a long run.

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