Nick Cave

Rock Album Review: Nick Cave’s “Wild God” — A Time for Joy

September 21, 2024
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With the release of “Wild God,” his stirring 18th studio album, it seems as if the charismatic poète maudit has achieved, and more impressively maintained, his own version of peace.

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Concert Review: Nick Cave — Frisky and Compelling

October 12, 2023
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Love and lightness (if often at intersections with death and faith) filtered through many of the songs in Nick Cave’s sonically naked “solo” concert.

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Live Concert Review — Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace

July 25, 2020
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The solo format at Alexandra Palace recalled his recent “Conversations with Nick Cave” tours, a similar chance for the singer to deconstruct his songs at the piano, except that he never addressed an imagined audience beyond his lyrics.

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Visual Arts Review: At the ICA — The Many Pleasures That Fiber Can Offer

October 9, 2014
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Fiber takes on two key aesthetic ideas — gravity and the grid — and one major sociological one, the way fiber arts were created and exhibited as part of a larger feminist agenda.

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Visual Arts Preview: Nick Cave and William Kentridge at the ICA

February 7, 2014
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Both of these exhibitions challenge our very notions of time and identity and the social structures around us.

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Coming Attractions at Museums: March 2013

March 4, 2013
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The month’s standouts include Nick Cave’s Soundsuits at the Peabody-Essex Museum and two exhibitions at MassMoCA.

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