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The ‘business’ of art

Carey Young’s ‘Uncertain Contracts’ at the RISD Museum
You could be forgiven if you sometimes thought that corporations are the root of what's wrong with the United States.
By GREG COOK | December 30, 2009

We're killing the oceans

Is it too late to save the seas that sustain us?
I meet world-renowned undersea photojournalist Brian Skerry at Legal Seafoods, across from the New England Aquarium, where he's the explorer in residence. He orders a chicken Caesar salad.
By MIKE MILIARD | November 18, 2009

In war and love

PBRC'S A Time of Fire burns slowly
PBRC'S A Time of Fire burns slowly
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | February 18, 2009

Forward thinking

Letters to the Boston editor, November 14, 2008
Letters to the Boston editor, November 14, 2008
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | November 12, 2008

Juana Molina | Un Día

Domino (2008)
Un Día shows Molina’s music in its weirdest, most mesmerizing, ideal version of itself.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | October 15, 2008

Terror-fied

Slavoj Žižek’s revolution
This new grand-theoretical manifesto might be completely daft.
By GEORGE SCIALABBA | August 12, 2008

El Potro

Curtido in disguise
Like a Mexican wrestling luchador, El Potro hides its true identity under a mask.
By KENJI ALT | July 23, 2008

Fair game

Boston Phoenix Letters: May 9, 2008
There is a big difference between games that are consciously edgy or controversial, such as Postal or Super Columbine Massacre, and games that are intended as nothing but exploitive pornography, such as Custer’s Revenge.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | May 07, 2008

Publish and Perish?

Blogging Harvard courses could revolutionize open education — if its contributors aren’t expelled first
Professor Tal Ben-Shahar is a resident rock-star lecturer on Harvard’s campus.
By SHARON STEEL | February 28, 2008

Start the revolution without me

History lessons in 12:08 East of Bucharest
To judge from recent movies from that country, everything in Romania is going to pot. Except Romanian movies.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 24, 2007

Éminence grise

Joe Boyd remembers; remembering Joe Boyd
When I first met Joe Boyd, I knew him only as a legend, the force behind the psychedelic and folk-rock movements of the 1960s.
By DANA KLETTER | March 27, 2007

The A list

Letters to the Boston editor: November 10, 2006
Overall, a great list; impossible to do and make everyone happy.
By PHOENIX LETTERS | November 14, 2006

Just Visting

An occasional shout-out from people passing through town
What's the difference between Mexican and American comedy?
By MARK OSTOW | November 08, 2006

Changing worlds

A talk with USM philosophy professor Jason Read
On the USM philosophy department's home page, I noticed Karl Marx’s famous lines from Theses on Feuerbach: “the philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it.”
By CHRIS THOMPSON | October 04, 2006

Letters to the Portland editor: September 29, 2006

War is art
War is art
By PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | September 27, 2006

Full Friday

Two sacred events approaching
I experienced a Twilight Zone shift in reality last month while walking the streets of Philadelphia.
By IAN PAIGE | September 27, 2006

Heritage hangout

Rediscovering Greek history
Modern times are tough for the Greeks.
By BRIAN DUFF | September 20, 2006

Living theoria

Military uses for art theory
This spare spiral that Constantin Brancusi traced to capture the likeness of writer James Joyce describes the sort of journey involved in what Joyce called the “sedentary trade”: using one’s life as the material for one’s work, each working and wandering into and out of the other.
By CHRIS THOMPSON | September 06, 2006

The Daytrotter sessions

A trip to Rock Island, IL
Since it’s just not good enough anymore to start a blog and offer stolen MP3s, a new site called Daytrotter is inviting indie bands to its ragtag studioand recording tracks for them, then giving away four “Daytrotter Session” songs for download.
By NICK SYLVESTER | July 11, 2006