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Visual Arts Review: Otto Piene’s Sketchbooks at the Harvard Art Museums

July 6, 2022
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MIT’s loss is Harvard’s gain.

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Visual Arts Review: BarabásiLab — Where Art and Technology Meet, Beautifully

May 13, 2022
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This BarabásiLab exhibition is inspiring because it exemplifies a powerful integration of art and technology.

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Film Review: The Intriguing Documentary “Art and Craft” — Getting a Kick From Copying Art

October 15, 2014
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Why, when finally caught, didn’t mark Landis land in jail? Here’s the rub. He was a consummate liar and a big-time deceiver but he’s never committed a jailable crime.

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Arts Commentary — Big Money for Artist Activists From the Robert Rauschenberg Estate

September 8, 2014
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It’s important for there to be funds, curators, institutions, and audiences for art that can speak truth to power in unconstrained ways.

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Book Review: The Survival of the Fittest Yarnspinner

July 12, 2012
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Reading “The Storytelling Animal” is akin to listening to a series of terrific humanities lectures given by a polymath professor with a P.T. Barnum streak.

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Fuse Theater Interview: Ken Cheeseman on “Bakersfield Mist”

March 1, 2012
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We’re in this virtual reality age now, asking new questions about what art is. What has true meaning and what doesn’t?

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Stage Interview: Antonio Ocampo-Guzman on Directing a Tragicomic “Art”

January 23, 2012
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In “Art,” playwright Yasmina Reza uses theater to explore how powerfully we defend our fears and rationalizations.

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Coming Attractions in Theater: January 2012

January 8, 2012
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The year kicks off with few unusual productions — companies are depending on proven New York hits, such as the Yasmina Reza duo, the Tony award-approved “Red,” and “Green Eyes,” though the Tennessee Williams curio tantalizes.

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Theater Review: The Irreverent Passion of “Three Pianos”

December 11, 2011
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In “Three Pianos,” three young actor-musicians unite in their irreverent passion for the music of Franz Schubert.

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Visual Arts Review: Flowers as the Work Table for the Imagination

November 5, 2011
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Inescapably erotic, flowers are all about desire. What are they but a glorious exhibition and frame of their own genitals?

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