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Visual Arts Review: Clark Art Institute — America Discovers Rodin

July 31, 2022
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Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern is the show of the summer in the Berkshires — remarkably extensive, with 25 works on paper and 50 sculptures in terra cotta, plaster, marble, and bronze.

Book Review: Akshat Rathi’s “Climate Capitalism” — We Have Made Progress

March 6, 2024
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This encouraging book highlights the preponderance of positive developments regarding the efforts, worldwide, to deal with climate change.

Book Review: “The Farm” — Obsessed With The Land

October 4, 2018
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There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.

Book Review: “Becoming a Londoner” — A Record of a Charmed Life or A Life Made Charming

July 14, 2014
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David Plante’s non-fiction and fiction are of a piece. There is the honesty of a writer who is willing and able to, first, face himself, then, write what he sees, and then, allow the world to see his seeing.

Film Review: Doc Talk at the 2023 Provincetown International Film Festival

June 16, 2023
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Two documentaries at PIFF show how we got to where we are now.

Film Reviews: A Dispatch from the 25th Boston Underground Film Festival (Part 1 of 2)

March 22, 2025
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Considering the current political climate and its accompanying cultural backlashes, BUFF’s (continued) commitment to diversity in film feels especially pointed in its 25th incarnation.

“The Bad Backwards Walking” — A Dispatch from William Kentridge’s Fourth Norton Lecture

April 12, 2012
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William Kentridge spoke of the value of using a mirror to re-learn what he already knew how to do; the clear implication was that we are daily surrounded by mirror-images that we do not see for themselves but that hold the potential to alter our relationships to our tools and to our visions.

Dance Remembrance: Paul Taylor (1930-2018)

September 4, 2018
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Choreographer Paul Taylor leaves a repertory that sprawled from the outrageous to the sublime.

Coming Attractions: June 2 through 18 — What Will Light Your Fire

June 2, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Book Review: The Story of the ‘Hand Grenade’ — Emmanuel Carrère’s Biography of the Russian Writer Eduard Limonov

November 5, 2014
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A compelling chronicle of the life of the notorious Russian writer and political activist Eduard Limonov.

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