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Music Feature: Joyce Moreno at Berklee

December 17, 2015
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When she composes a song, she said, it’s her guitar, rather than her voice, that “chooses the key. The guitar is the boss.”

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Visual Arts Review: Two Public Art Projects in Boston — Provocative Visual Expressions of the 21st Century

January 26, 2021
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Steeped in technology, non-traditional public art is about sparking conversations about visuals as well as playing with contemporary aesthetic perspectives.

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WATCH CLOSELY: Spooky Season Has Barely Begun

October 29, 2021
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Here are some wonderful offerings to get you through the gloomy months ahead, including under-sung and under-seen horror baubles that you may have missed.

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Classical CD Reviews: Thomas Adès’ Piano Works, “Ecstatic Science,” and Michael Gordon’s “Anonymous Man”

May 27, 2020
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Thomas Adès is a formidable pianist and his output for his native instrument is fundamentally gripping; yMusic’s new album is a spectacularly-played and -recorded disc; Michael Gordon’s Anonymous Man is undeniably hypnotic but gets stuck in a loop that goes on for a mite too long.

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Visual Arts Review: Red Writ Large — Soviet Propaganda from the Cold War Era

July 11, 2014
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Darker Shades of Red focuses on the Soviet Union’s creation of internal propaganda, its array of striking posters aimed at keeping those in the Motherland and the satellites in line.

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Coming Attractions at Museums: March 2011

March 4, 2011
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Highlights this month in museums around New England include an exhibition of poetic and playful furniture, photographs and videos that radically rethink how a museum should treat art objects, and a show featuring an African artist who specializes in large, shimmering sculptures composed of recycled liquor bottle tops. By Peter Walsh. The van Otterloo Collection,…

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Film Review: “The Wobblies” — A Moving Story of a Largely Forgotten American Class Conflict

April 28, 2022
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After premiering at the New York Film Festival in 1979, this powerful documentary about one of the most dramatic periods in American labor history has been newly restored.

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Fuse Film Review: The Montreal World Film Festival — The End is Nigh?

September 3, 2014
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It would be a great pity if the MWFF, with its luminous history, was put out to pasture.

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Film Review: “Shirley” — Domestic Witchcraft

June 5, 2020
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Shirley is hard to watch, hard to resist, and deeply, deliciously haunting.

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Music Preview: Michael Gibbs — Coming Full Circle at Berklee

October 16, 2017
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The evening will be an invaluable opportunity to hear sounds, textures, and melodies created by a veteran composer/arranger.

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