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Keegan: Not so easy, and a little dangerous.

BalletX Summer Series: Farewell, Anitra

Sophisticated fun

BalletX did it again, assembling a program rich in musical choices, burnished by exceptionally challenging choreography that kept dancers and audience alike on edge.

Janet Anderson

Jul 15, 2012 Articles 3 minute read

A bunch of tubes? Actually, a very big bunch of tubes.

"Tubes': Andrew Blum travels the Internet

That cloud is expensive!

So you think Internet service should be free? Andrew Blum's cyber-travelogue demonstrates just how much time, effort, expertise and costly material our brave new cyberworld requires.

Tom Purdom

Jul 10, 2012 Articles 4 minute read

Detail from 'The Last Judgment': Michelangelo managed just fine without air conditioning.

Suffering for art: An actress speaks

Passion, pain, art and money: In defense of suffering artists

Is suffering for art ultimately a romantic but masochistic notion? As an actress, I disagree with BSR's Jackie Atkins. Artists don't measure our success by the material rewards. And we shouldn't.

Jessica Foley

Jul 10, 2012 Articles 4 minute read

Toogood's 'View of Tobacco Bay': Where Philadelphia artists flourish.

Bermuda's Masterworks Collection

One gorgeous island's sense of place

Some countries generate a sense of national identity via sports teams, fireworks and military parades. A beautiful island like Bermuda does it through the work of artists.

Victoria Skelly

Jul 07, 2012 Articles 3 minute read

Steve Kazee in 'Once': Wake me when the story starts.

"Once': A musical about nothing, on Broadway

Calling Jerry Seinfeld

Other critics have praised the Broadway musical Once for its love story, its great songs and its compelling characters— all elements that I found lacking.

Steve Cohen

Jul 07, 2012 Articles 2 minute read

Samantha and Khalil, Staten Island, N.Y. (2006): Farewell, middle-class cliché.

Mary Ellen Mark's "Prom' at the Art Museum

An absurd ritual that we can't forget

In her raw portraits taken at high school proms, Mary Ellen Mark uses a banal rite of passage to explore teenagers' intimate feelings as they confront the prospect of adulthood.

Rathe Miller

Jul 07, 2012 Articles 4 minute read

Nakagawa's images recovered lost identities, at five minutes per face.

Nakagawa's "Thousand Portraits of Hope' in New York

Man's hubris, atomic power and Fukushima's victims

Naoto Nakagawa's extraordinary suite of survivor portraits, created in response to the 2011 natural and nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan, is a moving human testament and a permanent artistic monument.

Robert Zaller

Jul 07, 2012 Articles 7 minute read

Should Matisse's 'Le Bonheur de Vivre' (1906) be retitled 'Museum Directors Confronting Economics'?

Moving the Barnes: Now to pay the bills

Betting the house, and the art

As a new study suggests, the move of the Barnes Foundation was part of the nationwide rash of real estate and financial speculation during the Clinton-Bush era. Chicago's Art Institute gambled and lost heavily on its own expansion. That's a scary prospect for the new Parkway Barnes, whose projections contain no margin for error.