Marie Antoinette

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Sweden's Radio Dept. create musical graffiti

Art for pop's sake
Growing up in the small Swedish town of Björntorp, Johan Duncanson didn't have bright explosions of spray paint on underpasses to remind him that art could exist outside the lines of commercialism. Instead, music, movies, and comic books provided the language he could jump into.
By JONATHAN DONALDSON | February 02, 2011

The surreal world

Dreamworks by Corey Grayhorse at AS220
Corey Grayhorse offers a style of synthetic glitz that seems to channel our society’s plastic, superficial heart.
By GREG COOK | May 20, 2010

Solving hunger is not a piece of cake

Will Walk for Food Dept.
Marie Antoinette lost a head not too long after she allegedly offered, “Let them eat cake” as a suggestion to hungry Parisians with no bread. While there are still plenty of people making ignorant remarks these days, very few of them are French princesses. Progress!
By MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN | April 28, 2010

Seeing is believing

The Emperor visits the Children's Theatre
Emperor Fredrick has a wardrobe problem.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 03, 2010

Visions of hope

‘Coming Out’ at Firehouse 13; Dery and Easton at 5 Traverse
Shannon Heuklom of Providence spent the past two summers helping at a rural clinic, serving some 2000 HIV-positive patients, that is run by the nonprofit Hope Through Health in the West African nation of Togo.
By GREG COOK | January 13, 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

Neo-rococo

Laurel Sparks at Yezerski, plus Julie Miller, Sheila Gallagher, Darren Foote, and Michael Ellis
Jamaica Plain's Laurel Sparks has become one of our best local abstract painters, as her new collection of bright, fun, juicy, abstracted chandeliers at Howard Yezerski Gallery attests.
By GREG COOK | February 20, 2009

Review: ASP's The Duchess of Malfi, Nora's The Cherry Orchard

Dying breeds
T.S. Eliot famously opined that John Webster saw "the skull beneath the skin."
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 13, 2009

The business of bubbly

A Mainer's new book explores the queen of champagne
Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin (say that a few times fast) is a woman after my own heart.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | November 05, 2008

Crossword: ''Stuck on you''

And you can't seem to get rid of it
And you can't seem to get rid of it
By MATT JONES | January 30, 2008

Natalie Walker

Urban Angel | Quango
It’s all soothing, but Walker’s never too sweet.
By KEN MICALLEF | January 14, 2008

The pursuit of perfection

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that a Lexus parked on the grounds of an English stately home was “sexually attacked” by a peacock
By JAMES PARKER | October 12, 2007

In Search of Mozart

Looking in all the usual places
Phil Grabsky had Amadeus squarely in his sights when he set out to make this documentary celebrating the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 02, 2007

Readers' picks 2007: City Life

Best bartender, best beach, best tattoo artist, best people-watching, and more
Roxanne Huff, Old Orchard Beach, Francisco's at the Blue House Café, and more
By PORTLAND PHOENIX STAFF | January 25, 2010

Régime change

Sofia Coppola’s not so sweet Marie
As Alfred Hitchcock famously said, cinema is not a slice of life but a slice of cake. Watch the trailer for Marie Antoinette (QuickTime) Fate’s pansy: Another view of Marie Antoinette. By Clea Simon.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 20, 2007

Flower power

Zhang’s gaudy, gory Curse
Many of Zhang Yimou’s films come down to a battle between character and décor. Watch the trailer for Curse of the Golden Flower (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH | December 20, 2006

The future of an illusion

Reflections on 40 years spent in the dark
When I first realized that movies would, for better or worse, dominate my imagination forever, I really gave no thought to the forces at work creating these transfiguring images on a screen.
By PETER KEOUGH | November 15, 2006

Ask Spin Cycle

Campaign advice for the vote-lorn
Here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters of “Spin Cycle,” up to several letters have poured in during the past few days seeking our sage advice on all things electoral.
By JOHN CARROLL | October 25, 2006

Off with their heads

Recent polls are giving the GOP the willies. So should the movies.
The signs are getting bleak for the man in the White House and the party in power.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 20, 2006

Whatchmacallit

Coppola, Dunst and Schwartzman explain . . .
Kirsten Dunst: “The movie wasn’t about the sets or the costumes, it was about people and the history of emotions, rather than facts, to me.” Régime change: Sofia Coppola’s not so sweet Marie. By Peter Keough
By BRETT MICHEL | October 18, 2006

Regime change - side

By | October 18, 2006

Fate’s pansy

Another view of Marie Antoinette
Reimagining the past, as historical novelists must do, is difficult.
By CLEA SIMON | October 17, 2006

Fear itself

Reflections on a disturbing, but undeniable phenomenon
The smell of fear is thick in the air these days.
By EDITORIAL | September 28, 2006

Fall back

This season, Hollywood lives in the past
If you cannot remember the past, so Santayana said, you’re condemned to repeat it. Watch trailers for this fall's new releases.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 13, 2006

The plot thickens

Oliver Stone rewrites history with lightning in JFK
This article originally appeared in the December 20, 1991 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By PETER KEOUGH | August 10, 2006

Being there

Considering re-enactments at URI
Being there fascinates us. We like to watch even if we don’t participate, we are reminded by “States of Siege: A Consideration of Re-enactment Photography,” at the University of Rhode Island Main Gallery through March 12.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | February 22, 2006