Richard Barrios surveys the extensive world of movie musicals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:41AM“Checkers,” a new play by Douglas McGrath, stars Anthony LaPaglia and Kathryn Erbe as Richard and Pat Nixon.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMDoes photography record external reality or does it create its own, self-contained reality? Both, of course. All photography lies on a continuum of outer and inner. So the question becomes w…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AM“GRUNTS: The GI Experience’’ and “TWO PERSPECTIVES: Bradford Washburn and Vittorio Sella’’ At: Panopticon Gallery, 502c Commonwealth Ave., both through Ja…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:39PMFor artists, 9/11 has been elusive. How does one render, or reimagine, something so universally and vividly seen?
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:01AM"Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" is an engrossing exhibition that offers a varied and extensive look at art that served to disseminate knowledge in 16th-century n…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:21PMFew people over the past three decades have experienced as many horrific scenes as the photojournalist James Nachtwey has: wars, natural disasters, crimes against humanity. Several years ago…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:07PMWILLIAMSTOWN - Photography has a love-hate relationship with the space-time continuum (don’t we all?). Time, which the camera arrests, gives photography its raison d’être. S…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMQ. How did the show come about? A. I’ve been showing my photography at various Audubon sanctuaries for several years; and I’d write up these natural history essays about each ima…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:54PMBRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Hearing music is easy - and if you close your eyes you can hear it that much better. Seeing music is a lot harder, and opening your eyes doesn’t help any.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:15PMA camera is a machine as a paintbrush and chisel are not. That didn’t sit well with aesthetically ambitious photographers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They sought the sta…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM"Exposure 2011,’’ the annual juried show at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, includes small projects, ranging from four to eight images, by 10 different pho…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:10PMLight makes photography happen, but time is what makes it irresistible. Who can resist a point-and-click time machine? That’s what photography is, after all, bringing the past into the…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:31PMSome sports are more photo-friendly than others. Think of how seamlessly baseball integrates pause within play. A base runner crouches before attempting a steal. A pitcher stops at the top o…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM