Murray Whyte

12 hours ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Don Aucoin |A.Z. Madonna |Murray Whyte |Jeffrey Gantz |Jon Garelick |Maura Johnston | +1 more

Christiani Pitts (Robin) and Sam Tutty (Dougal) in rehearsal for "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)."Nile Scott StudiosTWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK CITY) The two strangers in question in this musical two-hander are Dougal, a cheery Britisher in his mid-20s traveling to attend the wedding of his father — whom he has never met — and Robin, also in her 20s, a hard-bitten native New Yorker who is the sister of the young woman Dougal’s father is about to marry.

16 hours ago | bostonglobe.com | Don Aucoin |A.Z. Madonna |Murray Whyte |Jeffrey Gantz |Jon Garelick |Maura Johnston | +1 more

Christiani Pitts (Robin) and Sam Tutty (Dougal) in rehearsal for "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)."Nile Scott StudiosTWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK CITY) The two strangers in question in this musical two-hander are Dougal, a cheery Britisher in his mid-20s traveling to attend the wedding of his father — whom he has never met — and Robin, also in her 20s, a hard-bitten native New Yorker who is the sister of the young woman Dougal’s father is about to marry.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Murray Whyte

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because I‘ve never really been waiting for any exhibition of Sargent’s, overcooked as we in Boston are by his constant presence, endlessly genuflecting to his greatness as the city’s favorite adoptive son.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Murray Whyte

NEW YORK — “American Sublime,” Amy Sherald’s first-ever career survey, opened this month at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. If you know nothing else, you will know her official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama, made in the aftermath of President Barack Obama’s administration in 2018. That painting is here, along with more than 40 others. It’s set apart, the only one among dozens to have a room all to itself.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Murray Whyte

NORTH ADAMS — A child plunges a hand into a heavy mound of snow, and pulls it back to find a single flake stuck fast to the meat of their palm. Mesmerized by its delicate, crystalline spikes, the child rushes indoors to show a parent, only to watch it vaporize against warm flesh. Disappointment displaces wonder; only memory remains, mystery and beauty lost in the heat.