StageStruck: Seeing Red–and Black

StageStruck: Seeing Red–and Black

Call me a philistine, but I don’t get, and therefore don’t much like, abstract expressionism. That movement, which dominated post-war American art, was fueled by the emotional intensity of German expressionism while reducing the iconoclastic abstractions...

ImperiumWatch: The Outlook for Water

As issues like universal healthcare, the fight for the Republican presidential nomination and the shooting of an unarmed teenager in Florida grab attention day by day, it’s important not to forget a more enduring, more crucial issue that faces the U.S. and the...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Stop Logging at Quabbin For the benefit of 99 percent of Massachusetts citizens who do not work in the timber industry, there is no good reason for logging in the Quabbin, and there are many good reasons not to. The Quabbin forest represents less than 2 percent of...

Between the Lines: MoCA Not Raising All Boats

If Mass MoCA can get its patrons from the far reaches of its enormous parking lot to its renovated factory buildings, can the noteworthy contemporary art museum get its financial support to trickle from its parking lot to Main Street in downtown North Adams?...

Drowning Out the Voters

Massachusetts S. 772, a State Senate bill offering a constitutional amendment to overturn the controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United vs. FEC, has festered in the Massachusetts State Legislature’s Joint Committee on the Judiciary for more than...