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A knockout performance from pianist Jeremy Denk, cellist Jan Vogler exudes a strong poetic sensibility, and pianist Hélène Grimaud’s Brahms Concertos are a mixed bag.
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Somerville’s Union Square hosts four chocolate companies, in renovated warehouses.
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Author Ethan Mordden serves up plenty of entertaining yarns, sometimes as exaggerated as the genre to which they pay homage.
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This not-quite-full retrospective contains three masterpieces of Iranian cinema: Close-Up, Taste of Cherry and The Wind Will Carry Us.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Overall, the ITRL is an improvement over earlier efforts, but it falls short of expectations, particularly when it comes to providing a way into the world of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola for those beginning the journey.
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Read Moreby Gary Schwartz A few months ago a good friend, someone whose judgment I could not respect more highly, asked me to help convince the Rijksmuseum not to give Damien Hirst the run of the place with his exhibition “For the love of God.” She was understandably incensed by the whole business. That the cast…
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Arts Commentary: The Declining State of the Art of Arts Journalism
Theater critics, film reviewers, A&E editors, and arts columnists have been stripped from our dailies and weeklies. Why should you care? Oscar Wilde warned that an age without criticism is “an age that possesses no art at all.”
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