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Classical Concert Review: Boston Artists Ensemble — Chamber Music at its Finest

November 7, 2022
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The Boston Artists Ensemble found the tenderness and understated grace of Robert Schumann’s Piano Trio No. 2.

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Film Review: “A Reckoning in Boston” — Muckraking and Heartbreaking

May 9, 2021
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A Reckoning in Boston demonstrates that fifty years after the bussing-era failures to improve the lives of Black people, there is, in James Rutenbeck’s telling words, “No justice, no truth, no reconciliation.”

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Arts Commentary: MFA Boston — at 150

November 9, 2019
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There have been times in the MFA’s past when it hasn’t lived up to its educational mission, when it has pandered to the whims of the wealthy — particularly its fat cat benefactors.

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Arts Fuse Podcast #14: Dialectics of Politicized Art, or the Intellectual History of White Men in Cars

April 23, 2019
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The Arts Fuse welcomes a new character to its extended universe. Deanna Marie Costa, an editor and critic at the magazine.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Now + There — Reinterpreting Public Art in the Civic Environment

June 23, 2018
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An organization dedicated to making Boston a vibrant, contemporary art city.

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For the Love of Arts Criticism: An Invitation for the Arts Community to Speak Out – and to Act

February 6, 2018
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The publication, its editor, and its over 60 writers believe that the health of arts criticism and the arts community are inextricably intertwined.

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Visual Arts Commentary: A Tale of Two Bridges

June 21, 2017
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Two stories about how a public process, because of politics, can make it very difficult, and costly, to connect two points.

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Music Interview: Bishop Harold Branch celebrates 62 years of “Down Home Gospel”

June 2, 2016
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Bishop Harold Branch’s decades of supporting the gospel scene have not been ignored..

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Fuse Interview: Talking to Rising Comedian Michael “Myq” Kaplan

March 21, 2016
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“There comes a decision-making process where some of the jokes, I’m like, I’m glad I never have to tell that one again.”

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Music Review: Madonna in Boston — Queen of a Three-Ring Circus

September 27, 2015
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Madonna’s show made for spectacular eye and ear candy. But what was it all about? That’s where things got a little hazy.

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