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Two compelling documentaries at the Boston Palestine Film Festival trace Edward Said’s intellectual awakening and the unfinished search for justice for Alex Odeh.
A sprawling 250th‑anniversary display sidles up to hot‑dog branding and influencer playfulness.
Claude Lanzmann’s haunted pursuit of testimony and Henrietta Szold’s humanitarian legacy illuminate the enduring power of courage and conscience.
“Taking a Line for a Walk: Alexander Calder & Paul Klee” and “An Imagined Dialogue: Alberto Giacometti & Mark Rothko” are touching reminders of the remarkable kindness inherent in making art – the desire to reach across time and space to offer something to another.
“The MFA is a place that really matters to a lot of people, and it is the safety of this place that matters and its commitment to excellence. These are things that must never be compromised.”
By juxtaposing different artistic approaches, the past with the present, Deep Waters offers a fresh way to consider what we humans have done to the ocean, to the creatures that depend on it, and to each other.
“Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore” at the MFA builds a case for two artists that many are inclined to think of as “unlikely bedfellows.” Brava!
Is the artist’s direction of clothing choices — and how he painted the garments — a sufficiently compelling inquiry in which to anchor an exhibit?
It’s no wonder poets have been drawn to write about Guyer and Twombly’s work. We are carried away by an art that is always immediate, hic et nunc, but elsewhere too.
Arts Commentary: The Distance Between Us and the Museum
By Mark Pawlak For a working-class kid from Buffalo who once saw museums as places for other people, a lifetime among Cambridge and Boston collections became an education in class, access, exclusion, and the complicated act of looking. Any Sunday when the weather turns—low gray clouds, steady rain, the threat of snow—my thoughts drift toward…
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