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Allan Rohan Crite completed "Streetcar Madonna" in 1946. (Courtesy Boston Athenaeum and the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library)

From the divine to the intimate, Allan Rohan Crite's 'human art'

Grounded in faith and inspired by his mother’s teachings, the Boston artist was devoted to exploring Christian liturgy and Black...

04:22Oct 22, 2025
Allan Rohan Crite, "Self-Portrait," about 1932. (Courtesy National Center of Afro-American Artists, Roxbury and the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library)

A Boston artist ahead of his time

One of the leading Black artists of the 20th century, Allan Rohan Crite was well known for his oil paintings...

Oct 23, 2025
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.” (Courtesy Macall Polay/20th Century Studios)

'Springsteen' biopic plays like a song with only one note

Starring Jeremy Allen White, writer-director Scott Cooper’s portrait of The Boss is "cartoonishly reductive and crassly fictionalized in the manner...

Oct 23, 2025
Olivia Blacke’s “Death at the Door” and Tom Ryan’s “We Had a Hunch" are both out this month. (Courtesy the publishers)

Two new mystery novels to read in October

Olivia Blacke’s "Death at the Door" is a Boston-set cozy mystery featuring a human-ghost duo teaming up to solve a...

Oct 17, 2025

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