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The Paranoid Thriller That Foretold Trump’s Foreign Policy
Some of the president’s policies are stranger than fiction.
'Wicked' star Cynthia Erivo headlines parade for Harvard's Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
“She's such an icon,” said Onovughakpor Otitigbe, a 21-year-old Harvard student from New York who followed Erivo.
Governor Healey creates Massachusetts poet laureate role - The Boston Globe
Prior to the announcement, Massachusetts was one of just three states, along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania, without a poet laureate.
‘Mona Lisa’ will get its own room under a major renovation of the Louvre - The Boston Globe
France's Emmanuel Macron has not disclosed an exact budget for the renovations, but it is estimated to cost up to $834 million.
Actors’ Shakespeare Project and August Wilson make beautiful music together in ‘The Piano Lesson’ - The Boston Globe
It's a highlight of the current theater season.
2025 Oscar Nominations: See the Full List
2025 Oscar Nominations: See the Full List - The New York Times
‘Wicked’ star Cynthia Erivo named Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year - The Boston Globe
Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals is defying gravity with its pick for the 2025 Woman of the Year.
The Search for van Gogh’s Lost Masterpiece
Cast off by the Nazis, but heralded by curators, the artist’s painting of his doctor, made just before van Gogh’s suicide, has not been seen in 34 years.
MFA removes 20 Dutch and Flemish paintings from its collection - The Boston Globe
Most of the works will be sold via auction in early 2025.
Impressionism’s 150th, an anniversary more absent than present - The Boston Globe
Impressionism's 150th birthday in the US heralded a change in attitude
Jim Abrahams, parody master of ‘Airplane!’ and ‘Naked Gun,’ dies at 80 - The Boston Globe
Mr. Abrahams built a wide-ranging résumé as a solo director including comedies such as “Big Business” (1988), starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin, and “Hot Shots!” (1991) and the 1993 “Hot Shots! Part Deux,” both starring Charlie Sheen in spoofs of action movies.
Excepting Alice - The Boston Globe
Thanksgiving doesn’t really have carols — except for “Alice’s Restaurant.”
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
(1784) Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator - YouTube
Ken Burns talks 'Leonardo da Vinci'
Ken Burns has told me time and again, in various interviews about his various films, that all his films are about the same thing: “us” lowercase and “U.S.” capitalized. But his latest film, for the first time, looks “at just the two lowercase letters,” the 17-time Emmy winner told me from his Walpole, New Hampshire, […]
MFA installs Alan Michelson’s answer to ‘Appeal to the Great Spirit.’ ‘No one would ever take them for Native American stereotype.’ - The Boston Globe
The Native American artist's striking platinum figures will stand at the MFA's entrance, a response to the Cyrus Dallin sculpture that has occupied the lawn for 100 years.