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Frank Armstrong, "McLean County, Illinois," 2015.

In ‘American Roadsides,’ an ode to plastic flamingos and gleaming silos

Photographer Frank Armstrong and a few friends bring the nation’s backroads and side treks to Fitchburg Art Museum.

ART
Sam Fields's "Space Between the Warps" is now at LaMontagne Gallery.

Not your grandmother’s needlework: Sam Fields stretches boundaries in ‘Space Between the Warps’

The show at LaMontagne Gallery features ‘Wall Breasts’ and other surprises.

Recently discovered images by Charles Daniels; Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, backstage before a show.; Steven Tyler with a fan; and Keith Moon of The Who backstage at the Boston Garden.

16 rare Rock & Roll photos from the 1960s-70s

Boston photographer Charles Daniels had unguarded access to some of the biggest touring acts in Rock & Roll history. Now, he'sready to process 3,000 rolls of undeveloped film. Explore a selection of the images.

Will Smith, left, and Jada Pinkett Smith arrive at the 27th annual Critics Choice Awards.

Critics Choice 2022: Complete list of winners

The 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards, which gives out honors to both films and TV shows, were held Sunday night.

MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS
Rose Williams (left) and Crystal Clarke in season two of "Sanditon" on PBS's "Masterpiece."

This week’s TV: ‘Sanditon’ fans flex, Amy Schumer returns, and a comedy about an erotic mag for women

"Sanditon" is back for a second season on PBS, thanks to fans who protested the initial decision to cancel the "Masterpiece" series. Plus a look at new shows debuting this week, including "Life & Beth," "Minx," "WeCrashed," and "Welcome to Flatch."

Zoë Kravitz.

‘SNL’ talks with TikTok influencers, and Zoë Kravitz makes her hosting debut

In the cold open of Saturday Night Live, “President Joe Biden,” played by James Austin Johnson, invited TikTok entertainers to help solve the world’s issues relating to Russia and Ukraine.

Charles Daniels sat near a small portion of his thousands of undeveloped rolls of film at his home in Somerville. Nearby are photos he made of Rod Stewart, who he photographed while on tour. As the go-to announcer at a number of influential clubs during the late-1960s and early 1970s, photographer Daniels had unprecedented access to photograph many bands that went on to become household names.

Hidden inside a Boston photographer’s 3,000 rolls of film are unseen photos of 1960s-70s rock gods

For decades, a singular photographic collection has lain nearly unseen in the Somerville home of photographer Charles Daniels. Now, more than five decades later, Daniels and his supporters are seeking to bring these images to life.

"Immersive Shevchenko: Soul of Ukraine," an exhibit dedicated to the work of the 19th-century artist, will come to Boston on March 15. The show will serve as a fund-raiser for humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.

‘Immersive Shevchenko: Soul of Ukraine’ exhibit to raise funds for humanitarian aid with one-day-only show

At "Immersive Shevchenko: Soul of Ukraine," an exhibit created before the Russian invasion of Ukraine takes on new meaning.


Andris Nelsons led soprano Christine Goerke, baritone Bo Skovhus, and the BSO at Symphony Hall Thursday.

Bringing Berg’s thunder: ‘Wozzeck’ in concert at the BSO

Andris Nelsons led the orchestra and a distinguished cast in a viscerally charged performance of Berg’s prescient, premonitory score.

TELEVISION
Mike Myers (pictured with wife Kelly in 2016) will play a host of characters in the six-episode Netflix comedy “The Pentaverate.”

Mike Myers returns to TV — in seven guises

The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member will play a host of characters in the six-episode Netflix comedy “The Pentaverate.”

This aerial photo shows the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., on Oct. 23, 2021.

Alec Baldwin seeks to avoid liability in fatal ‘Rust’ shooting

Baldwin gave his most detailed account yet of fatally shooting a cinematographer on the set of the film “Rust” last year in an arbitration demand that his lawyers filed Friday against his fellow producers, claiming that his contract protected him from financial responsibility in her death and seeking coverage of his legal fees.

BOOK REVIEW

Chasing out the old horse

Inspired by Robert Mugabe’s decades long rule over Zimbabwe, “Glory” enfolds a coup orchestrated not by the people of a “government-forsaken” nation, but by military dogs trained in North Korea. Indeed the entire cast is composed of animals.

BOOKS
Susan Straight

The art of listening in Susan Straight’s ‘Mecca’

For many, California exists as a dream. Beyond the myths and the illusions, for author Susan Straight, a native Californian who has never left, there are certain stories that must be told. In her ninth novel, “Mecca,” Straight draws together a diverse family — some by blood but many chosen — for a bighearted and often wrenching saga.

BIBLIOPHILES
David Wright Faladé

Reading essays to become a writer

David Wright Faladé's new historical novel “Black Cloud Rising” was inspired by a unit of recently freed or runaway slaves that rooted out the remaining Confederate soldiers along North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Faladé also wrote the nonfiction book “Fire on the Beach,” which is about a 19th-century all-Black crew in the US Coast Guard. He talked with us about his reading habits.

Baring it all

Confessional writing has gotten a bad rap in intellectual circles, seen as more suited for the diary than the bookshelf. Melissa Febos is the queen of the confessional, or rather a literary and political offshoot. In “Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative,” Febos hopes to revamp the genre’s reputation.

Christine McDonnell

Really Rosie’s Place

Christine McDonnell’s new, illustrated book introduces kids to the nation’s first women-only shelter and the founder behind it