Arts & Culture

Sketches of Monet

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No artist epitomizes Impressionism more than Claude Monet. His famous paintings of Paris and the Normandy coast are among painting’s purest celebrations of color and light.

Dutch Treatment

By Sparrow

Regicide, fratricide, filicide: The Medea myth is a bloody affair.

Disarmed By Jazz

By Puja Thomson

A world-class player herself, McPartland’s musician’s point of view and calm demeanor easily disarms guests, who play and talk in a manner that would be unlikely in a different setting.

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Dancing to a Different Drummer

By Hollis Seamon

His attitude toward dance as an expression of music is a no-no to most European post-moderns, whose emphasis is on conceptual movement over passionate musicality.

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Field of Dreams

By Jay Blotcher

Omi’s newest exhibit, “Bivouac,” turns the concept of art in nature on its head.

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Days of Plays

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Not long after winning her Pulitzer, Parks undertook a project that is bringing her subversive and quirky humor right to the leafy hills of western Massachusetts.

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Masked Angel

By Hillary Harvey

Since 1984, Angel’s reverb-laden sound has found its home with six-string kings Los Straitjackets, a quartet whose members, for reasons that remain mysterious, wear Mexican wrestling masks when they perform.

Portfolio: Phyllis Galembo

By Robin Sarah O'Day

Galembo’s latest work presents large-scale color prints of the masquerade, a centuries-old costumed ceremony she witnessed in the African nations of Benin, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria.

Food & Drink

Flight to Paris

By Puja Thomson

Like something on the Rue Saint Marc in Paris, Brix is decked out in dark woods, a handcrafted zinc bar, Old World-style paintings on the walls, and cozy tables with burgundy linens.

Books

Book Review: A Portrait of Pia

By Terence Chiesa

Pia’s story is eminently accessible to young teens. The characters and their dilemmas are drawn with loving detail and the book’s lack of simple resolutions rings of real life.

The Gospel According to Pinkwater

By Noel Sloboda

Daniel Pinkwater’s voice—instantly recognizable to NPR listeners—resonates down the stairwell as he appears, a Hitchcockian silhouette dressed in top-to-toe black with a dusting of pet hair.

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Book Reviews: Way of Water and Welcome to Camden Falls

By Paul Grondahl

Fate, often enough, arrives as a beanball. Down you go, a crumple in the dirt. Then, through the pain and vapors, you see a hissing curveball coming your way. That’s when life gets interesting.

Summer Reading Round-up for Kids

By Richard Loranger

Susan Krawitz and Nina Shengold offer their picks for picture books, poetry, and young adult titles.