15 Jan 2024

Single-task Musing

experiencing an typewriter’s journey from Paris

04 Aug 2023

Dick Van Drama

exploring the other side of Van Dyke's significance

11 Oct 2021

Legacy of Horror

exploring the genre’s psychological origins

12 Aug 2021

Powerful Creative Youth

discussing a milestone gift with ZUMiX in Boston

14 Jun 2021

Inspired Art Students

experiencing the Artrageous! auction in 2021, the 35th!

01 Jan 2021

Lightning Strikes Thrice

listening to Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes

08 Oct 2020

Drizzled with Spicy Sauce

encountering the organ music of Louis Vierne (1870-1937)

22 Jul 2020

Enduring Greatness

experiencing a summer program of organ recitals online

24 Apr 2020

Necessary Light

reviewing The Station photobook by Chris Killip

22 Dec 2019

Growth of Coincidences

encountering the Poetry Mobile public art project

26 Oct 2019

Phantom Presence

experiencing filmmaker Kubrick’s ghostly camera

29 Jul 2019

Blasphemous Visualscapes

encountering the imagery of Scary Stories

21 Jun 2019

Everyday Absence

reviewing Morgan Parker's Magical Negro book

03 May 2019

They’re Among Us

reviewing Huma Bhabha: They Live exhibit at ICA Boston

28 Feb 2019

Noir’s Goodbye Kiss

encountering noir screenings for seventy-five years

31 Jan 2019

Written Bluntly Well

reviewing Cody-Rose Clevidence's latest book of poems

26 Dec 2018

Lives in Words

reviewing two books from Graywolf Press

07 Sep 2018

Sonic Outsider

experiencing the art of Christine Sun Kim

25 Aug 2018

Forever Bernstein

encountering the composer's 100th

09 Jun 2018

An Essential Question

reviewing the book, Why Poetry

22 Mar 2018

Jukebox Therapy Sessions

Shannon & the Clams talk Onion, their latest album

12 Feb 2018

Traditionally Fresh

listening and speaking with trumpeter Itamar Borochov

16 Oct 2017

Enticing and Disturbing

reviewing It's Alive! exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum

28 Aug 2017

The Surrealism of Witness

reviewing Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings exhibit

20 Feb 2017

Sculpting Violence

reviewing Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning exhibit

08 Sep 2016

Integral Layers

visiting with artist Andrew Fish in his studio

17 Jun 2016

Multiplying Beauty

reviewing Manus x Machina at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

29 Dec 2015

Unbounded Doctrine

encountering the art-making career of Frank Stella

17 Aug 2015

Conjuring Scenes

reviewing American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood

28 Mar 2015

Persistence of Paper

a fair during New York's Armory Arts Week, reviewed

10 Mar 2015

Uncensured Ballet

revisiting Francesco Rosi's film Il momento della verità

13 Dec 2014

Connected Dialogues

experiencing Harvard Art Museums

28 Jun 2014

Cinematic Assembly

attending the Berkshire Int'l Film Festival

27 Apr 2014

The Will of Time

experiencing the art of Jon Imber

16 Feb 2014

Objects of Literature

encountering The Folio Society's books

19 Nov 2013

Superb Irrelevance

experiencing Jules Olitski's late works

26 Aug 2013

Vivid Mysteries

inside the new pavilion at Colby College

04 Jun 2013

A Chromatic Mix

reviewing the Ten Artists group exhibit

08 May 2013

Staging Playwrights

examining the approach of Argos Productions

09 Mar 2013

Living, Telling, Making

the art of Winfred Rembert, experienced

28 Jan 2013

Conscious Movements

examining the film A Late Quartet

19 Nov 2012

A Film at Fifty

revisiting Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie

24 Sep 2012

Twin Hoodlums

reviewing Os Gemeos in Boston

25 Jun 2012

In the Name of Fun

experiencing the art of !ND!V!DUALS

21 May 2012

Moments of Arrest

encountering Frieze New York

05 Mar 2012

Marking Time

visiting the artist Patrick Pierce

19 Dec 2011

Inseparable Pairs

reviewing the exhibit Double Solitaire

22 Nov 2011

Unreasonably Beautiful

examining the artwork of Jo Sandman

24 Sep 2011

Untitled Collaborative

experiencing a 2011 winner of Occupy 539

26 Jul 2011

Restore, Reflect, Renew

following the creation of Currents

21 Feb 2011

Oh Yes It Is!

discussing Panto with Matthew Woods

02 Dec 2010

Prickly Ideals

encountering David Mamet's new book

26 Oct 2010

A Lasting Passage

examining Alfred Stieglitz New York

10 Aug 2010

Shipyard Wreckage

a review of HarborArts Outdoor Gallery

13 Jun 2010

Sublimated Backlash

reviewing the book Enlightened Sexism

11 May 2010

Mercurial Moments

experiencing Roni Horn at the ICA, Boston

05 Apr 2010

Briefly-Loved Things

reviewing the 2010 Whitney Biennial

25 Jan 2010

Intricate Enigma

a look at silverpoint, then and now

06 Dec 2009

Jocular Debacle

reviewing Urs Fischer at the New Museum

12 Oct 2009

Sequenced Chaos

reviewing the artworks of Yu-Wen Wu

04 Oct 2009

Night into Morning

experiencing Nuit Blanche '09 in Toronto

21 Sep 2009

Twisted Tyranny

reviewing the film We Live in Public

22 May 2009

Listen, Look, Likeness

examining the portraits of Felix de la Concha

24 Feb 2009

Mundane Secrets

reflecting on the artist Betty Goodwin

27 Oct 2008

Milton’s Paradise

exhibit review: marking the poet's 400th

24 Jun 2008

Layered Mimesis

seeing the artwork of Wlodzimierz Ksiazek

01 May 2008

Unquelled Persona

encountering the artwork of Anthony Quinn

26 Mar 2008

Time/Stop/Time

the 2008 Whitney Biennial: Part Two

18 Feb 2008

Curatorial Charge

the 2008 Whitney Biennial: Part One

28 Jan 2008

The Ninth Art

a look at the emergence of graphic novels

01 Nov 2007

Jealousy, Guilt, Desire

encountering the photographs of Mona Kuhn

07 Oct 2007

A Significant Bullet

examining Werner Herzog's latest film

28 Aug 2007

South End Solo

a look at D.C. Kelley's new artworks

03 Jul 2007

Elusive Order

a Joseph Cornell exhibition, reviewed

23 Apr 2007

Alone, Together

examining the work of Edward Hopper

04 Mar 2007

Cut, Press, Stain

reviewing an exhibit at the Soprafina Gallery

22 Jan 2007

Las Calaveras

Mexican artist Carlomagno's Boston visit

23 Dec 2006

To Begin Again

visiting the newly opened ICA

24 Oct 2006

An Unfolding Legacy

discussing the influence of Reba Stewart

21 Sep 2006

Outside the Genre

reviewing an exhibit of John Walker's work

16 Jul 2006

Collective Haze

experiencing the exhibit Twin Allegories

18 Feb 2006

Oddly Nostalgic

examining the exhibit Young America

20 Nov 2005

The Bipedal Body

a profile of sculptor Peter Lipsitt

12 Jun 2005

Revealed Distance

encountering photorealism at The Rose

16 Apr 2005

Confronting Caravaggio

a National Gallery exhibit review

04 Mar 2005

Plastic Refuge

reviewing the exhibit Pretty Sweet

01 Feb 2005

Passing Reminders

some thoughts on the poets Milosz and Justice

03 Jan 2005

Era-defining Partiality

attending a concert by The Divine Comedy

02 Dec 2004

Everyday Painter

experiencing the artwork of George Nick

13 Nov 2004

Will They Come?

evaluating support for The Colonial Theatre

01 Oct 2004

Pedestrian Extravaganzas

touring urban murals with Walls That Speak

01 Sep 2004

Bringing It Home

some thoughts on Julia Child (1912-2004)

01 Aug 2004

A Landmark at 40

encountering Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center

01 Jul 2004

Refreshing Pairings

reviewing Crite and Kamiya at Gallery NAGA

01 Jun 2004

Compose, Crank, & Cut

experiencing Michael Babcock's letterpress

01 May 2004

Paradise Reconstructed

examining the Gauguin Tahiti exhibition

01 Apr 2004

A Studio of Custodians

meeting with an art conservator and his staff

01 Mar 2004

Dynastic Couture

visiting an exhibit of imperial Chinese dress

01 Feb 2004

Daily Impermanence

visiting with conceptual artist Tom Friedman

01 Jan 2004

Austerity Measures

experiencing a Louise Glück poetry reading

01 Dec 2003

Milk and Relish

experiencing a Performance Cult show

01 Nov 2003

Ulterior Perspective

reviewing the exhibit Reflections in Black

01 Oct 2003

The Farthest Place

examining the photographs of Don Gurewitz

01 Sep 2003

Deafening Dissonance

experiencing an exhibit at the Art Interactive

01 Aug 2003

Rapture, Not Ecstasy

reviewing the Woolf exhibit at Smith College