Worcester Art Museum
The Worcester Chamber Music Society’s latest concert was inspired by an ambitious concept and it was played with conviction, but the performance was continuously dogged by problems with acoustics.
Mr. Hammer played Bach’s Sonata in G minor energetically and sensitively, drawing out composer’s long melodic phrases with appealing grace. Ms. Graveline made a strong accompanist, clearly articulating Bach’s contrapuntal textures.
By Peter Walsh A Tomb Gets its Time Forget Indiana Jones. Archaeology is not about the obvious. Case in point: the Museum of Fine Arts’ exhibition, The Secrets of Tomb 10A, opening October 18.
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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