Isabella-Stewart-Gardner-Museum
An incisive exhibition traces how Rembrandt, his Dutch contemporaries, and earlier artists remade a biblical story of concealment, power, and survival.
The exhibit suggests that Isabella Stewart Gardner wanted her art curation, intellect, and fashion sense — the areas of her life over which she had the most agency over — to be her legacy, not her image.
The Junction Trio offered the coolest show in town — an afternoon of experimental music that highlighted their virtuosity as individual players and as a unit.
While offering a window into artist Fabiola Jean-Louis’s examination of her cultural and personal identity, the exhibit also provides a deeper understanding of the Haitian struggle for freedom.
It’s hard to adequately describe what a momentous exhibition this is.
The journey of Anders Zorn, from Swedish hamlet to the top echelon of society portraitists and back again, has a couple of messages for us. The first leg of the journey tells us that careerism is not a new phenomenon in the art world. The second tells us what it may be worth in the end.
February feels like the ‘New November’: concerts of real interest during the weekdays and too many great concerts during the weekends.
The Anonymous 4 went through their medieval and early Renaissance paces, vibrato-less but historically informed and performed.

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