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Greatest video-game tragedies of the last decade

Zeroes from the Aughts
Here are some of our favorite anti-victories of the past 10 years, in rough chronological order.
By LASER ORGY | January 20, 2010

Cursed films

"Le Film Maudit" at the HFA
At some point while watching the features in the Harvard Film Archive's "Le Film Maudit" ("cursed films") series — perhaps during the "Circle of Shit" chapter in Pier Paolo Pasolini's SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM — you might ask yourself, which is more cursed, the movies or anyone unfortunate enough to be watching them?
By PETER KEOUGH | July 17, 2009

Art in America

From the Old West to middle-class guys
The legend of the Old West's cowboys and Indians, flinty pioneers and buffalo killers, sheriffs and gunslingers started with the tall tales that cowboys themselves told of their glorious exploits.
By GREG COOK | June 19, 2009

Their back pages

'Book As Post Modern Medium (The Book Show)' at 5 Traverse
An often overlooked factor of Providence's underground art scene that flourished in the decade bookending the start of the millennium was the central place of the zine.
By GREG COOK | June 02, 2009

Swedish schnapps

The Martin Beck mysteries
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's Martin Beck mysteries are back in a fourth American printing.
By WILLIAM CORBETT | December 02, 2008

Life in Hell

Entang Wiharso and Chris Forgues's harrowing visions
Wiharso, who lives in North Kingstown, fills 5 Traverse with a harrowing dance of demons in black silhouettes and ruddy flesh (well, charcoal, acrylic, enamel, and spray paint).
By GREG COOK | November 12, 2008

Unembarrassed riches

Dutoit and Elder at the BSO, Collage’s Berio, Boston Conservatory’s Turn of the Screw, and Kurt Weill at the Gardner and the MFA
Some weeks Boston has such musical riches, one wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | February 21, 2008

Blndsght offers eye-opening art

Venue watch
Watson Atkinson is a dynamic man.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | February 20, 2008

Mediæval morality play

In Bruges is a good place to be
It’s location, location, location for Martin McDonagh.
By CAROLYN CLAY | December 16, 2008

Not quite eternal

Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde
When what’s arguably the world’s best symphony orchestra expectations run high.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | November 26, 2007

Apocalypse now

Cliff Evans at the Gardner, Félix González-Torres at Harvard
Empyrean is one of the rare Internet-inspired pieces with rich, complex, coherent form.
By GREG COOK | November 15, 2007

Salons of summer

Group shows at the Berenberg and the Pepper, flowers and Fox at Howard Yezerski
I’m not sure when the word “salon” started to mean an all-inclusive sampling of a gallery’s artists.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS | August 07, 2007

Local color

The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition
It’s an art-world misconception that, to champion local art, you have to grade on a curve.
By GREG COOK | May 08, 2007

Summer daze

Cool pickin’s on Newbury Street and in the South End
One of the invigorating qualities of summer art shows in Boston is their relative playfulness. Slideshow: Images from the galleries
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS | July 05, 2006

Kitchen-sink ‘Summer’

A sprawling show at the Peabody Essex
You wouldn’t think a painting exhibit of ships and still lifes, landscapes and portraits, primitives and abstractions representing 82 artists and spanning 148 years would hold together in any discernible way.
By CHRISTOPHER MILLIS | June 14, 2006

All in your head

The interior worlds of Patrick Corrigan on display at Fort Nest
Patrick Corrigan’s current show at Fort Nest on India Street originates with the artist’s experience as part of a demolition crew in various Portland apartment buildings.
By IAN PAIGE | March 08, 2006