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Film Review: “Inside” — The Art of Survival

March 13, 2023
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Inside‘s visceral demonstration of the alienating capacity of technology and the reduction of art to rich people’s toys may be a bit pat, but the film finds the space within these cliches to stage a compelling human drama.

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Arts Feature: According to Our Critics — The Best That TV Offered in 2021

December 22, 2021
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After a brief respite, we were driven indoors (again) and told to stay there, so we turned to our screens for entertainment.

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Classical Music Season Preview 2014-2015: Adhering to the Safe, With Exceptions

September 19, 2014
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There’s a powerful attachment to conventional repertoire among the city’s many orchestras, through are there things to look forward to. Here is a guide to what’s coming up.

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Visual Arts Review: “Cat Mazza: Network” — Weaving Technology and Tradition in Political Art

February 10, 2025
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This show uses an impressively clever use of technology to create sign posts on a path through labor history, psychiatry, and textile design.

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Theater Review: “The Niceties” — The Gloves Are Off

September 18, 2018
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Eleanor Burgess’ The Niceties is an articulate, if structurally crabbed, expression of #blacklivesmatter anger as well as a millennial rebel yell.

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At the Berlin Film Festival: Radu Jude’s Journey Into Guilt, Plus a Young Peter Hujar and an Earnest Jessica Chastain

March 16, 2025
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In Berlin, the closest thing to a consensus on “Kontinental ’25” was that the film didn’t measure up to Romanian director Radu Jude’s customary standards. My view is that the critics didn’t look hard enough.

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Television/Music Review: Next at the Kennedy Center — A Joni Mitchell Songbook, on PBS

November 13, 2022
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I put Joni Mitchell on a short list of the most remarkable pop music artists of the ’60s and early ’70s. Longevity of excellence isn’t the point here, just peak incandescence.

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Film Review: William Kentridge’s Wondrous “Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot”

October 6, 2022
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The nine-part film series focuses on the artist in his studio in Johannesburg. We see William Kentridge as he draws, paints, designs, paces the floor, and thinks out loud — among other things.

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Film Review: “X” – The Texas Grindhouse Massacre

March 29, 2022
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X takes the right lessons from Chainsaw: it is both an adoring homage and a much needed rejuvenation of the slasher genre.

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Classical CD Reviews: Florence Price’s Symphonies nos. 1 & 4, George Antheil’s Symphonies nos. 3 & 6, and 20th-century Russian Orchestral Music

February 1, 2019
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Fine recordings of symphonies by neglected American composers Florence Price and George Antheil; and a curious album from Cornelius Meister and the ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien.

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