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Concert Review: Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival — Satisfaction for All

July 2, 2024
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Despite several great sets including Jason Isbell and Iris DeMent, Wilco stole its own show at Solid Sound with conceptual aplomb.

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Visual Arts Review: “The Ravages of the Ax” — Marc Swanson at MASS MoCA and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site

August 16, 2022
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A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco does not demand political action from its audience. Instead, it allows viewers to sit within the stark reality of the present, and perhaps find some community within the shared reality that the space creates.

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Festival Review: Solid Sound 2022 — Fun For All

June 2, 2022
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Solid Sound is like a family picnic for stylistically open-minded musicians and fans alike within the brick-mill infrastructure of MASS MoCA.

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Visual Arts Review: “Ways to Baffle the Wind” — Exploring Humanity and Nature at Mass MoCA

January 29, 2022
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Yto Barrada’s intent in this show is not to warn about environmental catastrophe so much as to explore where culture and the natural world meet.

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Visual Arts Review: “Ceramics in the Expanded Field” — Playing with Clay

November 11, 2021
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The curator’s intent is to stretch and subvert received notions of ceramics with their overtones of craft and functionality

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October Short Fuses – Materia Critica

October 7, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Visual Arts Review: Ledelle Moe’s “When” — Figures Worthy of Awe

January 24, 2020
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Ledelle Moe’s work is fresh, innovative, and contemporary — yet deeply rooted in a primal humanism that courses through the millennia of every continent and culture.

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Visual Arts Feature: MASS MoCA Launches Building 6

May 22, 2017
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It is now possible for visitors to explore the MASS MoCA museum complex via a continual loop of 4.5 miles.

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Visual Arts Review: Unexpectedly Full — MASS MoCA’s “The Man in the Empty Space”

August 10, 2016
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It took some time, but the stunning synergy of Richard Nonas’ work began to reveal itself.

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Dance Review: Katie Workum / Kimberly Bartosik—Connecting and Disconnecting

October 26, 2015
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Both dances may limn our own Age of Anxiety, and the modern ways it manifests within us.

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