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Book Review: “Limitarianism” — An Idea Whose Time Has Come

March 30, 2024
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In this pointed book about the harm done by the super-rich, Ingrid Robeyns is out to convince us that limiting wealth, and reallocating it, will result in a better life for all of us

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Theater Review: Revisionist Revival of “1776” Hits Broadway with a Thud

November 7, 2022
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A.R.T Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Jeffrey L. Page are at the helm of this well-meaning but irritating revival.

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Fuse Flash: Another Shoe off the Pollock Matters Centipede?

November 18, 2007
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For those still perusing the shopping mall of controversies built around the Pollock Matter Affair (see past Fuse Flash and Anonymous Sources posts) another well-polished shoe (or more) may drop later this month at an International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) symposium in New York City.

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Concert Review: Beth Hart at Wilbur Theatre

March 12, 2022
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Blues singer Beth Hart wields the hammer of the gods with easy finesse but also deep emotion.

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Music Review: Best New Songs – September, 2020

October 15, 2020
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A selection of new songs that are about keeping sane in a world that seems increasingly out of everyone’s control — in nearly every sense.

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Theater Views: Barker’s Back and Other Good News

March 24, 2008
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By Bill Marx “I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.” — Howard Barker Given the New York Times’s unenthusiastic review of an off-Broadway staging of Howard Barker’s A Hard Heart back in December – “Kathleen Chalfant can perform such miracles onstage that she has…

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Culture Vulture: The Cartoons That Still Shake The World

August 13, 2009
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Can you imagine a scholarly press publishing a book about the Mona Lisa without a reproduction of the painting? Or, perhaps a more pertinent example, a book about anti-Semitic stereotypes without an illustration of them? Brandeis professor and author Jytte Klausen was asked to sign what she called a “gag order” by Yale University Press.…

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Visual Arts Review: A Fruitful Exchange — “Believers: Artists and the Shakers”

March 18, 2025
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The exchange proved to be as fruitful for the artists as it was for the Shakers.

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Film Review: “Jackass Forever” – Bad Taste — Our Miracle Elixir

February 11, 2022
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Jackass Forever is incredibly stupid, totally irresponsible, completely juvenile, and it made me feel alive in my body for the first time in weeks.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Branded in Boston — Logos by Any Other Name

October 5, 2022
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What’s up? Several public and private agencies have changed their graphic identities and even names.

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