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Theater Commentary: Theater in a Time of Emergency? — The Same Old Same Old

Are Boston’s stage critics disengaged from reality? Or is it that they are afraid to speak up?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: criticism, Pandemic!, theater-criticism

Arts Remembrance: “Why Not Say What Happened” — Morris Dickstein’s Memoir About Living a Life of the Mind

RIP Morris Dickstein, among the last of the generation of the New York School of Jewish intellectuals, scholar/critics of massive knowledge and intellect who came from humble backgrounds.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Review Tagged: American literature, Columbia University, criticism, memoir, Morris Dickstein, Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education

Critical Commentary: The Shaky Life of a Film Critic

Cinema reviewing exists as a respected profession only as long as the traditional role of the critic is honored.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: criticism, film criticism

Arts Commentary: Reviewing Music, Re-viewed

Our opera-loving reviewer contrasts his own pieces, written 48 years apart, on the same Offenbach operetta.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston After Dark, criticism, Music Criticism, Ralph P. Locke

Arts Commentary: WBUR’s Clogged “ARTery”

Every organization in the Barr Foundation’s charmed circle — large arts groups and The ARTery — have a financial stake in reinforcing the belief that the Barr’s money is being put to supremely successful use.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: arts coverage, Boston-Business-Journal, criticism, Don Seiffert, Maria Garcia, Rosalind Bevan, the ARTery, wbur

Critical Commentary: A Few Thoughts about John Simon

Few critics proclaimed that the emperor was naked as a jaybird with as much savvy panache.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: arts-criticism, criticism, John Simon

Cultural Commentary: Arts Criticism — An Embarrassment of Whiteness

Can anyone — with a straight face — argue that our largely white critical contingent in Boston is interested in generating hard hitting debate, controversy, and unconventional ideas?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Artery, arts-criticism, criticism, IRNE, white male critics

Theater Commentary: An Open Letter — to the “Open Letter”

The media big boys should be part of the discussion, if only because they have the resources to change the situation for the better.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: criticism, diversity, Elliot Norton Award Committee, IRNE

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

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

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, AOC, Art and Culture, Boston, criticism, green new deal, politics

Commentary/Interview: “Du Bois’s Telegram” — Restricting Literary Resistance

Is there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview Tagged: criticism, Harvard University Press, Juliana Spahr, Literary Resistance, literature, politics, State Containment

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