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1 week ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney
SALEM — “Jung Yeondoo: Building Dreams” comes in two parts, and they shrewdly complement each other. One consists of 32 photographs taken by Jung, showing people in the apartments where they live. The other, a Jung video, contrasts people’s actual lives with fantasies of what they’d like those lives to be. In the photographs we see domestic reality, which can be a kind of lived fantasy — and in the video it’s personal fantasy, which some day (who knows?) might become lived reality.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney
CAMBRIDGE — The title of “Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic” sounds like a joke and not a very funny one. The afterlife of … say what? The problem is that the joke is on humankind and the planet we live on. “Castaway” runs through April 6 of next year at Harvard‘s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. The Peabody‘s Ilisa Barbash curated. The show consists of 80 items, assembled by the art collective TRES.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney
Any situation comedy worth its salt – let alone its ratings – relies on ensemble. Viewers wouldn’t have loved “I Love Lucy” if Fred and Ethel hadn’t been around to keep Lucy and Ricky company. On “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” Mary basically played straight man (or woman) to Lou and Murray and Ted and Georgette and Sue Ann.
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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney
The title of “Mr. Polaroid,” on PBS’ “American Experience,” is as apt as it is succinct. Edwin H. Land wasn’t just the cofounder and longtime head of the Polaroid Corp., which for decades had its headquarters in Cambridge. He was central to its development, its character, its success, and, ultimately, its failure. Have you ever heard of the company’s Polavision instant film system? Land assumed everybody would have, an assumption with disastrous consequences.
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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney
Soosik Lim, "Chaekgado350," 2015.© Soosik LimWINCHESTER -- There’s a Korean mini-festival north of Boston. In Salem, the survey show “Korean Art” and photography exhibition “Jung Yeondoo: Building Dreams” both open at the Peabody Essex Museum on May 17. Currently up at the Griffin Museum of Photography are “New Horizons: Korean Contemporary Photography,” which features the work of seven photographers, and “Imprints,” with the work of Timothy Hyunsoo Lee. The shows run through June 29.
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4 weeks 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.
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4 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
