Mark Feeney

5 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney

CAMBRIDGE — It doesn’t matter whether a map is on your phone, in an atlas, or it’s the kind from AAA you fold up after using it. The purpose is the same: not just to give directions but also to provide reassurance. A map says, don’t worry, this is how to get from here to elsewhere. There is a route to be followed, a known quantity. The Staple Singers had a number one hit with “I’ll Take You There.” A map says something related but different: We’ll get you there. Geographically, everything is settled.

5 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney

Part of the pleasure of “Eric Antoniou: Rock to Baroque — Four Decades of Music Photography,” and that pleasure is considerable, has to do with Antoniou’s ears being as open as his eyes. The show runs through June 30 at Panopticon Gallery. Open ears? Music photographers, like musicians, tend to specialize. Pennie Smith, say, or Bob Gruen, photographed rock but not jazz or classical. Chuck Stewart and William Claxton were jazz guys.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney

There were three people who appeared on every episode of “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” and the prime-time special that kicked it off: the comedy team of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin (it was their show, after all), and the series’ unsung heroine, Ruth Buzzi. Buzzi died Thursday. She was 88. Before “Saturday Night Live,” there was “Laugh-In.” No, the show wasn’t live, and it aired on Mondays, not Saturdays.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney

Robert Campbell, who for more than 40 years was architecture critic of The Boston Globe, winning the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, died at Youville House Assisted Living, in Cambridge, on Tuesday. He was 88. His son, Nick, said the cause of death was complications of Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Campbell’s criticism was authoritative in evaluation yet casual in expression. Or seemingly so: His prose was unfailingly clear, consistently conversational, and slightly tart.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney

CAMBRIDGE — “Monsters of the Deep: Between Imagination and Science” is, in effect, two exhibitions. It runs at the MIT Museum through January. The subtitle gives a clue as to that two-ness. One exhibition, and it’s quite appealing, is chiefly visual: views of whales and related sea creatures, monstrous and otherwise, afforded by more than 40 maps and prints and books, some dating to the 16th century. They’re the imagination part. There’s also a preserved narwhal tusk and a video of a giant squid.