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Book Review: “Master Lovers” — An Inventive and Intelligent Fictional Memoir

January 18, 2024
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“Master Lovers” is written in a lucid, personable style, and the fictional scenes —  David Winner’s recreations of history and imagined trysts — are deft, believable, and vividly imagined.

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Visual Arts Review: Hinging Between Worlds — Paintings by Anne Leone

August 30, 2011
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Each of the paintings in Anne Leone’s Cenote Series shows the water’s surface, always from below. The world of air is invisible to us, off limits, mysterious. This membrane between worlds appears closed, but is easily pierced by the swimmers, resealing itself each time they rise and plunge.

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Visual Arts Feature: Visiting The Barnes Foundation, Part Two

December 27, 2014
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Walking through the Barnes is like nothing I had ever experienced before, overwhelming and brain-scrambling.

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Visual Arts Review: “Native Fashion Now”—Tradition and Cutting Edge, Superbly Balanced

November 27, 2015
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Even without museum commentary, Native Fashion Now is an important show – visually, socially, and politically.

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Arts Investigation: Mortality and Jazz Artists – Do We Honor the Dead?

May 15, 2024
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How well or how poorly are we paying homage to our jazz ancestors? Some graves are worthy places of pilgrimage. Others are neglected . . . or unknown.

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Theater Commentary: Twenty Years Ago — Stonewalling Charges of Sexual Harassment

December 12, 2017
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These articles dramatize, sadly, who was listened to and who wasn’t when sexual allegations were made against playwright Israel Horovitz in the early ’90s.

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Book Review: “Sargent and Paris” — Sargent and Amnesia

April 29, 2025
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I wish this catalogue spelled out John Singer Sargent’s professional stance as a “juste milieu” painter more methodically. That term refers to those eager to be associated with new stylistic tendencies yet careful not to transgress the establishment’s norms.

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Arts Feature: According to Our Critics — The Best That TV Offered in 2024

December 19, 2024
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Our critics supply their TV favorites of 2024.

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Visual Arts Review: “Hana Miletić: Soft Services” — The Power of Folds

June 9, 2024
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In her insightful commentaries and art, Hana Miletić demonstrates how labor and materiality reflect subtexts of power, ranging from the “soft” to the “hard.”

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Book Review: “The Letters of Seamus Heaney” – The Burden of Good Fortune

September 10, 2024
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In his letters, Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s tone, and the expanse of his openness, varies according to the addressee — but his approach to all is inevitably marked by seriousness and elegance.

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