Tropic Thunder is stupid-funny
Despite a few soft spots along the way, Thunder combines the dark absurdity of Stiller’s underrated Cable Guy with the unrestrained dumbness of his Zoolander .
By PETER KEOUGH | August 13, 2008

The reign of Spain

Never mind the Olympics — the Spanish are the big winners of 2008. Are Obama and McCain aware of this new European powerhouse?
The winner is (drum roll, please) . . . Spain.
By STEVEN STARK | August 08, 2008

Power playing

Theater by the Sea’s Evita
Theatre by the Sea is staging a slick rendition of Evita that gets across much of the power of the personalities and social forces involved.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | July 23, 2008

Flora, fauna, and the female figure

Art Nouveau Jewelry at the MFA, ‘Players’ on MIT’s Media Test Wall, and ‘Nascent’ at NESAD
The Art Nouveau movement of the late-19th/early-20th century distanced itself from the mass production of the Industrial Revolution with elaborate, one-of-a-kind works made from unusual materials.
By RANDI HOPKINS | July 15, 2008

States of unrest

Hofesh Schechter, Natural Dance Theatre, Ko + Edge at the Pillow
“Dance is a tool to look at other things,” choreographer Hofesh Shechter told an interviewer, but during the company’s US debut at Jacob’s Pillow last weekend you’d be forgiven for just looking at the fantastically virile dancing.
By DEBRA CASH | July 15, 2008

Looking directly

Seeing what summer has to offer
OK, summer’s here and it’s time to please the visitors.
By KEN GREENLEAF | June 18, 2008

Booked up

Several shelves’ worth of summer reads
Summertime, and the reading is easy.
By BARBARA HOFFERT | June 09, 2008

Greatest hits

RISD shows off its new and renovated galleries
The RISD Museum continues its top to bottom renovation and expansion.
By GREG COOK | June 04, 2008

Concentration

What we can learn from studying "History"
This show has a subtle but relentless energy that emerges slowly.
By KEN GREENLEAF | May 28, 2008

RI-style problems discovered in Saipan

Small world
Saipan is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands — a US protectorate that has been politically connected with Uncle Sam since the end of World War II — and it has problems.
By ARIN GREENWOOD | May 28, 2008

Flashback

The high voltage work of Corita Kent
Sister Corita Kent was something of a celebrity.
By GREG COOK | May 07, 2008

Wheeling through history

Vintage bicycles aren't just for lonely bike mechanics any more
Vintage bicycles, once an obscure subculture’s obsession, are gaining popularity as highly desired collectibles or cheaper, cooler rides.
By ELIZABETH FLOCK | May 07, 2008

Fact and fantasy

Walid Raad’s installations seek the “truth”
Walid Raad’s installation feels like a Borgesian detective story in which truth is elusive, and cities themselves shiver with post-traumatic stress disorder.
By GREG COOK | April 30, 2008

Power + glory

The peculiar American brashness of George Bellows
The work of George Bellows has a peculiarly American brashness about it.
By KEN GREENLEAF | April 30, 2008

Fusion forms

Lorraine Chapman, Kinodance, Black Grace
Modern dancers who aren’t tethered to a specific technique can forage the whole world for useful movement and effects. We saw three completely different examples recently.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | April 23, 2008

Big in every way

‘El Greco to Velázquez’ at the MFA
Men in inky darkness. Men without women (save for the Blessed Virgin). Men in splendor, men in ecstasy, men without smiles. Men as saints but not as sinners.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 15, 2008

The war games

The Huntington’s The Cry of the Reed ; Travesties by the Publick
The Cry of the Reed seems torn from some particularly gruesome headlines: kidnapping, beheading, such stuff as Daniel Pearl’s final dreams were made on.
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 15, 2008

Portland hopes to bridge cultural divides

Open-door policy
This February marked the six-year anniversary of journalist Daniel Pearl’s horrifying death at the hands of Islamist extremists.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | April 02, 2008

Iraq: Five years later

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains the punishing cost of staying any longer
Five years later, President George Bush and his minions were wrong about the need to fight in Iraq, wrong about the way to fight in Iraq, and wrong about what the war in Iraq would ultimately cost.
By PETER KADZIS | March 12, 2008

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