Arts & Culture

Things I’ve Loved is a celebration of things from the near or distant past, either overlooked or forgotten by the unforgiving eye of popular culture. It is a venue to both reminisce and profess...

Dan Mangan (Nov. 1 @ the Garrick) — Depending on when you read this column, this first entry may be the most difficult to attend. If you have the time, however, a Dan Mangan...

Directed by James Marsh, Project Nim is the story of Nim, a chimpanzee taken from his mother by force in 1973 and transformed into the subject of a language project headed by Prof. Herbert...

Early this fall the Exchange District BIZ (Business Improvement Zone) launched a new program, Pop-up Art, turning unoccupied store fronts into temporary art galleries. The project got off the ground during Culture Days —...

In the last Essentially A Playlist, we took a trip to the moon courtesy of Pink Floyd and the deluxe remastered editions of their complete catalog, recently released by EMI. As we concluded that...

Biophilia is the eighth full-length studio album from avant-garde darling Bjork. Ten tracks released with accompanying individual apps for each of the songs turn the music into “a visualization of songs,” Bjork said on...

Sound Off is a continuing column in which we pose different artists the same series of crucial questions. In his second studio album under the Arts and Crafts banner, Oh, Fortune, Dan Mangan looks to...