Writings by Topic: Art and Popular Culture
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Publication |
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| The freedom of limits: A Rosh Hashanah meditation |
The Boston Globe |
September 21, 2025 |
| The night cellphones were banned at TD Garden |
The Boston Globe |
July 30, 2025 |
| In Mexico City, two icons of Cuban repression are banished |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2025 |
| The day Phil Donahue and I kept our clothes on |
Arguable |
August 27, 2024 |
| Nike celebrates athletics at its worst |
The Boston Globe |
August 7, 2024 |
| Trump among the libertarians |
Arguable |
May 7, 2024 |
| Vandals for Palestine |
Arguable |
March 19, 2024 |
| The wonderful life of 'It's a Wonderful Life' |
The Boston Globe |
December 24, 2023 |
| 'Art is anything you can get away with' |
The Boston Globe |
September 25, 2023 |
| Conservatives should embrace 'Lift Every Voice' |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 2023 |
| André Watts, 1946-2023 |
Arguable |
August 1, 2023 |
| Cleopatra wasn't black. So what? |
The Boston Globe |
May 3, 2023 |
| Which former governor should Healey hang? |
The Boston Globe |
April 23, 2023 |
| The biggest loser |
Arguable |
November 7, 2022 |
| Tom Hanks is a great pretender |
Arguable |
June 20, 2022 |
| 'Unsilenced' tells a tale of Chinese repression |
The Boston Globe |
January 23, 2022 |
| Blood, sweat, and beauty |
Arguable |
July 26, 2021 |
| No ministry of culture, please, we're American |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 2021 |
| My favorite Sargent painting |
Arguable |
April 25, 2021 |
| Why Beethoven still endures |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2020 |
| The Israeli actress and the Egyptian queen |
The Boston Globe |
October 18, 2020 |
| Statue-toppling, right and wrong |
The Boston Globe |
June 14, 2020 |
| What are the odds of ending lottery advertising? |
Arguable |
December 9, 2019 |
| The PC commissars vs. Bryan Cranston |
The Boston Globe |
January 13, 2019 |
| Look what you made Taylor Swift do |
The Boston Globe |
October 14, 2018 |
| The transgender posse vs. Scarlett Johansson |
The Boston Globe |
July 18, 2018 |
| Snobs rage, but the Berkshire Museum's future looks bright |
The Boston Globe |
April 18, 2018 |
| Her 'Little Pink House' was her castle — until the government said it wasn't |
The Boston Globe |
April 15, 2018 |
| Arts elitists to Berkshire Museum: Drop dead |
The Boston Globe |
January 28, 2018 |
| At the Berkshire Museum, a display of backbone |
The Boston Globe |
July 30, 2017 |
| Scrap the NEA, and America's arts scene will thrive |
The Boston Globe |
March 1, 2017 |
| Let us now praise famous nonpoliticians |
The Boston Globe |
August 17, 2016 |
| Three cheers for cultural appropriation |
The Boston Globe |
December 2, 2015 |
| 'Declaration of Independence' preserves the patriots' faces |
The Boston Globe |
July 5, 2015 |
| Dying of laughter in North Korea |
The Boston Globe |
January 7, 2015 |
| Who'll be looking down on Baker? |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 2014 |
| Typhoon Haiyan and the old, old problem of evil |
The Boston Globe |
November 13, 2013 |
| No arts czar, please, we're American |
The Boston Globe |
February 8, 2009 |
| The Pyongyang overture |
The Boston Globe |
March 2, 2008 |
| Getting away with art |
The Boston Globe |
September 26, 2007 |
| Light and darkness and a disembodied brain |
The Boston Globe |
September 12, 2007 |
| A new low in Bush-hatred |
The Boston Globe |
September 10, 2006 |
| A screenwriter's remorse |
The Boston Globe |
August 18, 2002 |
| Too good for Oprah |
The Boston Globe |
November 1, 2001 |
| The Taliban's wrecking job |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 2001 |
| Is 'The Patriot' patriotic? |
National Review |
July 14, 2000 |
| More politics on TV? No thanks |
The Boston Globe |
January 31, 2000 |
| The right way to subsidize artists |
The Boston Globe |
May 27, 1999 |
| Return these exiles to Greece |
The Boston Globe |
April 1, 1999 |
| Kazan's lifetime achievement |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 1999 |
| Serious artists don't need the NEA |
The Boston Globe |
March 4, 1999 |
| Still we sing: 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous! |
The Boston Globe |
September 24, 1998 |
| Despite its promises, the NEA remains unchanged |
The Boston Globe |
August 21, 1997 |
| 'Mr. Magoo' brings out the PC police |
The Boston Globe |
August 5, 1997 |
| The Framers would have voted to abolish the NEA |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 1997 |
| Art without the NEA |
The Boston Globe |
April 15, 1997 |
| The false gods of popular culture |
The Boston Globe |
December 17, 1996 |
| Disney's courage, Mandela's caution |
The Boston Globe |
December 5, 1996 |
| The flag in the toilet |
The Boston Globe |
May 21, 1996 |
| Homage to a crooner |
The Boston Globe |
January 4, 1996 |
| Arts money for arts insiders |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 1995 |
| A desensitized society drenched in sleaze |
The Boston Globe |
June 8, 1995 |
| There's no place in America for a ministry of culture |
The Boston Globe |
February 23, 1995 |
| How the NEA pollutes American culture |
The Boston Globe |
January 24, 1995 |
| Insufferable art |
The Boston Globe |
July 7, 1994 |
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