Mark Feeney

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney

NEW YORK — As visitors go up the stairs to the third floor of the Museum of the Moving Image to see “MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — Story and Spectacle,” they hear the exhibition first. That’s all right, since what they hear is Lalo Schifrin’s theme for the television series that inspired the movie franchise. Has network TV ever known music at once hipper and more out there? It’s one of the few times the CBS series about the Impossible Missions Force figures in “Story and Spectacle,” which runs through Dec.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney

NEW YORK — For its signature image, the organizers of “Ben Shahn, On Conformity” didn’t choose Shahn’s most famous work. This might seem perverse. Actually, when taking into consideration the ongoing political moment, what they did choose makes unimpeachable sense. A richly extensive retrospective, “On Conformity” comprises 175 items: paintings, prints, photographs, posters, vintage magazines. It runs at the Jewish Museum through Oct. 12.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney

Ken Burns’s latest documentary series, “The American Revolution,” doesn’t start airing for another five months. It debuts on PBS Nov. 16. Burns produced and directed the documentary with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt. They’ve variously collaborated with Burns on several previous projects, including “Benjamin Franklin,” “The US and the Holocaust” (both 2022), “Muhammad Ali” (2021), and “The Vietnam War” (2017). Burns standbys Geoffrey C. Ward wrote the series and Peter Coyote is narrator.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney

NEW YORK — Each word in the title of “The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910” matters. So do the dates, especially that first one. It’s the year photography was invented. But what matters most in the title is “new.” Photography was a democratic medium for a democratic nation, and that nation was nearly as new as the medium was.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Feeney

GLOUCESTER — The purpose of a pipe organ is to make sound at its most majestic. It’s the mighty fortress of music. How mighty? Two of the organs featured in “Breath of Life — C.B. Fisk, Designers & Builders of Pipe Organs” have more than 4,500 pipes. “Breath of Life” runs at the Cape Ann Museum’s CAM Green campus through June 29. The museum’s Martha Oaks curated. Like CAM, the Fisk company is located in Gloucester.