'Dangerous Rhythm,' by Richard Barrios by Mark Feeney

Richard Barrios surveys the extensive world of movie musicals.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:41am on May 30, 2014☆⚑

Douglas McGrath Prepares His Nixon Play, 'Checkers' by Mark Feeney

"Checkers," a new play by Douglas McGrath, stars Anthony LaPaglia and Kathryn Erbe as Richard and Pat Nixon.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 8:00am on November 1, 2012☆⚑

Dreams developed in the darkroom by Mark Feeney

Does photography record external reality or does it create its own, self-contained reality? Both, of course. All photography lies on a continuum of outer and inner. So the question becomes w…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00am on February 19, 2012☆⚑

Seeing GIs fight the good fight by Mark Feeney

“GRUNTS: The GI Experience’’ and “TWO PERSPECTIVES: Bradford Washburn and Vittorio Sella’’ At: Panopticon Gallery, 502c Commonwealth Ave., both through Ja…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 4:39pm on December 12, 2011☆⚑

The presence of absence by Mark Feeney

For artists, 9/11 has been elusive. How does one render, or reimagine, something so universally and vividly seen?

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:01am on September 9, 2011☆⚑

Renaissance art in the service of science by Mark Feeney

"Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" is an engrossing exhibition that offers a varied and extensive look at art that served to disseminate knowledge in 16th-century n…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 7:21pm on September 4, 2011☆⚑

Life after hell in Rwanda by Mark Feeney

Few people over the past three decades have experienced as many horrific scenes as the photojournalist James Nachtwey has: wars, natural disasters, crimes against humanity. Several years ago…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:07pm on August 14, 2011☆⚑

Images so big as to seem to invite their viewers inside by Mark Feeney

WILLIAMSTOWN - Photography has a love-hate relationship with the space-time continuum (don’t we all?). Time, which the camera arrests, gives photography its raison d’être. S…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 1:30pm on August 13, 2011☆⚑

His art can creep up on you by Mark Feeney

Q. How did the show come about? A. I’ve been showing my photography at various Audubon sanctuaries for several years; and I’d write up these natural history essays about each ima…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:54pm on August 10, 2011☆⚑

Treated to images of Vermont retreat by Mark Feeney

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Hearing music is easy - and if you close your eyes you can hear it that much better. Seeing music is a lot harder, and opening your eyes doesn’t help any.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 8:15pm on August 8, 2011☆⚑

Finding a sharper focus as technology shifted by Mark Feeney

A camera is a machine as a paintbrush and chisel are not. That didn’t sit well with aesthetically ambitious photographers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They sought the sta…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 1:30pm on August 6, 2011☆⚑

Places in the art by Mark Feeney

"Exposure 2011,’’ the annual juried show at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, includes small projects, ranging from four to eight images, by 10 different pho…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 2:10pm on July 29, 2011☆⚑

From whose vantage point? by Mark Feeney

Light makes photography happen, but time is what makes it irresistible. Who can resist a point-and-click time machine? That’s what photography is, after all, bringing the past into the…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 7:31pm on July 25, 2011☆⚑

A baseball doubleheader by Mark Feeney

Some sports are more photo-friendly than others. Think of how seamlessly baseball integrates pause within play. A base runner crouches before attempting a steal. A pitcher stops at the top o…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 1:30pm on July 23, 2011☆⚑