By Bill Marx

“Boston is adrift in the brave new competition among big American cities vying for tourist dollars.” Maureen Dezell, WBUR
Maureen made that charge back in July 2006 in an article that turned out to be one of the last posts on the late WBUR Arts Online. Now that the quote, along with a link […]

A Mark Morris world premiere is turning the attention of the national press to the state of the Boston Ballet Company under new director Mikko Nissinen.
Boston Ballet, Mark Morris

Years of bitter and expensive litigation as well as the challenging nature of her work have put the artistic legacy of dance giant Martha Graham in crisis.
ballet, Dance, Janet Eilber, Martha Graham

Handel and Haydn Society’s irreverent take on “Dido and Aeneas” is another example of an operatic trend in which production values push musical values to the sidelines
Dido and Aeneas, Henry Purcell

An increasingly popular movement in the visual arts prides itself on picturing everything that is the raw, untutored, and irrational.
art, Books, Lyle Rexer, outsider art