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June 26, 2026 - Week in Review: The Reflecting Pool, Clive Davis, and Dolly Parton's truck stop
Jun 26, 2026
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June 25, 2026 - Ensemble Altera's "Declarations," Children's Art Carnival in Harlem, and a home for Les Bleus in Boston
Jun 25, 2026
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June 24, 2026 - Reynaliz Herrera & Ideas, Not Theories' with BIKEncerto, Parade: A Folktale, and the Boston Art Review
Jun 24, 2026
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June 23, 2026 - We Are Pat, Mahesh Daas on data centers, and A Night at the Disco
Jun 23, 2026
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June 22, 2026 - Imari Paris Jeffries on the Embrace's new center, Imagined Nation at the Athenaeum, and the Tao of Lloyd
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| 6/26/26 | ![]() June 26, 2026 - Week in Review: The Reflecting Pool, Clive Davis, and Dolly Parton's truck stop | On this edition of The Culture Show, Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley, and Culture Show contributor Lisa Simmons, go over the week’s top arts and culture headlines, which include:President Trump’s blue Reflecting Pool makeover has become a swampy spectacle in Washington, with algae, peeling paint and blame quickly giving way to parody songs and guerrilla projections. What began as a patriotic renovation ahead of America’s 250th has become an accidental canvas for satire.Clive Davis, the legendary music executive who died this week at 94, leaves behind a towering legacy in American music. With a golden ear for talent, Davis worked with artists from Janis Joplin and Bruce Springsteen to Whitney Houston.More than a century after the Titanic sank, a new fight is surfacing over what should happen to artifacts recovered from the wreck. RMS Titanic Inc., the company with salvage rights, wants to auction more than 100 objects, raising questions about preservation, profit and whether pieces of one of history’s most famous maritime graves should ever be sold.Cape Cod is becoming home to Bards on the Bay, a new Wellfleet retreat for playwrights and theatrical composers founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel and Michael Maso, who led The Huntington for more than four decades.Dolly Parton has gone from “9 to 5” to I-65. The country music legend has opened her first truck stop and travel center in Cornersville, Tennessee, complete with fuel, food, showers, Dolly merchandise and a coffee shop called “Cup of Ambition.” | — | ||||||
| 6/25/26 | ![]() June 25, 2026 - Ensemble Altera's "Declarations," Children's Art Carnival in Harlem, and a home for Les Bleus in Boston | Providence-based chamber choir Ensemble Altera joins The Culture Show live from GBH’s Fraser Performance Studio to perform excerpts from Declarations, a new work marking America at 250. The full world-premiere work will be performed Saturday, June 27 at 7 p.m. at Old South Church in Boston and Sunday, June 28 at 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Providence.Curator Souleo and artist Michael A. Cummings discuss Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists, a new exhibition at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery tracing the Harlem arts center that helped shape generations of artists, including a young Jean-Michel Basquiat.Cliff Dever, owner of Warehouse Kitchen + Sports Bar, joins us to talk about running a downtown Boston sports bar during World Cup fever. Warehouse has partnered with the French national team to serve as the official bar for Les Bleus supporters, just steps from the FIFA Fan Festival at City Hall Plaza. | — | ||||||
| 6/24/26 | ![]() June 24, 2026 - Reynaliz Herrera & Ideas, Not Theories' with BIKEncerto, Parade: A Folktale, and the Boston Art Review | Percussionist and composer Reynaliz Herrera returns to The Culture Show with excerpts from BIKEncerto, her four-movement concerto for solo bicycle and orchestra. Herrera turns the bicycle into a rich percussive instrument of rhythm, texture, machinery and music. The full album is also available on Bandcamp. Today we hear excerpts from I. Everything Movement, III. Metallic Movement and IV. Tires Movement. Today’s performance full credits: “BIKEncerto: a concerto for solo bicycle and orchestra” Composer: Reynaliz Herrera Performed by: Reynaliz Herrera (Bicycle Percussion Soloist)& Ideas, Not Theories; Ideas, Not Theories Orchestra: Founder/Owner/Artistic Director: Reynaliz Herrera, David Flowers: Conductor, Nathaniel Kim: Concertmaster/Violin I, Hannah Rebeca Lopez Vega: Violin II, Emma Michaud: Viola, Thomas Rodman: Cello, Adam Gurczak: Double Bass, Vivek Patel: Flute, Mary O’Keefe: Oboe,, Shannon Leigh: Clarinet, Francesca Panunto: BassoonJill Medvedow returns for Big Little Books, The Culture Show’s book club series celebrating short books that can be read in one sitting but linger long after. This month’s selection is Parade: A Folktale by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Allison Markin Powell — a 96-page novella about memory, guilt, imagination and the mythic creatures we carry with us into adulthood.Jameson Johnson, founder and editor in chief of Boston Art Review, joins us to discuss the publication’s latest issue and how artists are thinking through history, America at 250 and the stories we choose to preserve. The conversation also looks at Art Radar, Boston Art Review’s map of Greater Boston’s art spaces, galleries, museums and artist-run venues. | — | ||||||
| 6/23/26 | ![]() June 23, 2026 - We Are Pat, Mahesh Daas on data centers, and A Night at the Disco | Filmmaker Rowan Haber joins us to discuss the new documentary We Are Pat, which revisits Julia Sweeney’s famously androgynous Saturday Night Live character through a 2026 lens. Once built around the question of whether Pat was a man or a woman, the film asks what that joke meant then, what it means now and whether Pat can be reconsidered or reclaimed. We Are Pat is available on Apple TV, Prime Video and Fandango at Home.Mahesh Daas, president of Boston Architectural College and co-author of the graphic novella I, Nobot, returns for AI: Actual Intelligence. This month, he looks at data centers — the massive facilities powering the cloud and artificial intelligence — and the questions they raise about land, energy, water, noise and who pays for the infrastructure AI requires.Music journalist Christian John Wikane joins us to discuss A Night at the Disco, co-written with Alice Harris, a full-color look at the artists, producers and performers who turned disco from an underground club sound into a global movement. Wikane will appear at Provincetown Bookshop on Thursday, June 25, Mitchell’s Book Corner on Nantucket on Tuesday, July 7, and Edgartown Books on Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday, July 8. | — | ||||||
| 6/22/26 | ![]() June 22, 2026 - Imari Paris Jeffries on the Embrace's new center, Imagined Nation at the Athenaeum, and the Tao of Lloyd | Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston and co-chair of Everyone250, returns for AI: Actual Intelligence, The Culture Show’s recurring conversation with some of the region’s sharpest thinkers. This month, he brings his original, algorithm-free perspective on culture, civic life and the stories Boston is choosing to tell.The Boston Athenaeum’s exhibition Imagined Nation looks beyond the familiar scenes of the American Revolution to ask how ideas of nationhood have been formed, recorded and revised across generations. Curator Reed Gochberg joins us to discuss the books, maps, images and objects that reveal America as an unfinished story. The exhibition is on view through November 14, 2026.In The Tao of Lloyd, actor and writer Dennis Trainor Jr. imagines Lloyd Dobler, the open-hearted Gen X icon from Say Anything, decades later — older, grayer and still refusing the program. The new solo show heads to the Edinburgh Fringe this August, and Trainor is raising funds to help bring the production to Edinburgh. You can also see a workshop performance June 27 at Western Avenue Studios & Lofts in Lowell, before the show runs at the Edinburgh Fringe August 6 through 30. | — | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | ![]() June 19, 2026 - Annette Gordon-Reed onJuneteenth, Regie Gibson on Shakespeare, and Summer Solstice | Historian, lawyer and Pulitzer-prize winning author Annette Gordon-Reed joins The Culture Show to talk about her book “On Juneteenth,” which explores the holiday commemorating the day Union troops announced the end of slavery in Texas. We mark the staying power of William Shakespeare with Regie Gibson, the inaugural Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He’s a writer, performer, and educator whose work engages Shakespeare through spoken word .Finally the best-selling author Nina MacLaughlin joins The Culture Show to talk about her essay book “Summer Solstice,” which is a meditation on a season full of long days, hot nights and fat red tomatoes. | — | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | ![]() June 18, 2026 - Dr. Noelle Trent of the Museum of African American History, Mary Grant, and the MOMENTUM festival | Dr. Noelle Trent, president and CEO of the Museum of African American History in Boston and Nantucket, joins us to discuss Freedom! A Juneteenth Celebration. The museum marks the holiday with a free open house and block party on Joy Street, plus a sister celebration on Nantucket.Mary Grant, president of MassArt, returns for AI: Actual Intelligence, our recurring conversation with some of the region’s most original thinkers. This month, she reflects on a commencement season marked by political controversy, disinvited speakers and debates over what graduates need to hear.Catherine T. Morris, founder and executive director of the Boston Art & Music Soul Festival, joins us to discuss MOMENTUM, a five-day festival celebrating Black art, music, culture and enterprise across Greater Boston. She is joined by Isaiah Thelwell of Greater Brockton Young Professionals, one of the partners bringing MOMENTUM to Brockton through Fuller After Dark. | — | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | ![]() June 17, 2026 - The Salem Rainbow Stroll, The Clyde Best Story, and Salad Days at the Carpenter Center | Sebastian Crane and Lawrence Gullo join us to discuss the Salem Rainbow Stroll, a 90-minute walking tour exploring Salem’s hidden LGBTQIA+ history. The tour runs weekends through June, with proceeds benefiting the Trans Emergency Fund of Massachusetts.Director Dan Egan joins us to discuss Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story, opening the Roxbury International Film Festival on June 18 at the Museum of Fine Arts. The documentary follows Clyde Best’s rise from Bermuda to West Ham United, where he became one of the first Black stars in English soccer while facing racism from the stands.Kate McNamara, director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and James Hoff, co-founder of Primary Information, join us to discuss Salad Days: Primary Information. The summer project turns the Carpenter Center’s third floor into a temporary art bookstore, screening room and archive, on view June 18 through August 16. | — | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() June 16, 2026 - Regie Gibson on "Song of Massachusetts," Josef Palermo on the Kennedy Center, and Nashoba Valley Winery | Regie Gibson, the inaugural Poet Laureate of Massachusetts, joins us to discuss Song of Massachusetts, his new collaboration with composer Carlos Simon. Commissioned by the Boston Pops, the piece premieres at the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on July 4.Artist and arts organizer Josef Palermo joins us to discuss his Atlantic piece, What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center. Palermo spent 10 months at the Kennedy Center as its first curator of visual arts and special programming.Justin Pelletier, chief operating officer of Nashoba Valley Winery in Bolton, joins us as the farm-winery heads into its busiest season. New England’s oldest running winery has grown into a winery, orchard, distillery, brewery and restaurant operation. | — | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | ![]() June 15, 2026 - Antonia Bennett, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., and Igor Golyak on DELIRIUM | Antonia Bennett joins us ahead of her Father’s Day concert at Regattabar in Cambridge on June 21. The daughter of Tony Bennett and Sandra Grant Bennett, she grew up close to the world of American popular song before studying at Berklee and building her own career in jazz, standards and original music.Eddie S. Glaude Jr. joins us to discuss his new book, America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries, as the country approaches its 250th birthday. The Princeton professor, political commentator and New York Times bestselling author will appear at a Brookline Booksmith event at WBUR CitySpace tonight at 6:30.Igor Golyak, founder and artistic director of Arlekin Players Theatre, joins us to preview DELIRIUM, his new adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s Frenzy for Two, or More. The production runs June 18 through July 2 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, turning an endless domestic argument into absurdist comedy, existential crisis and public chaos. | — | ||||||
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| 6/12/26 | ![]() June 12, 2026 - Week in Review: Sagrada Família, the Kennedy Center, and David Hockney✨ | arts and cultureSagrada Família+5 | Callie CrossleyJames Sullivan | Kennedy CenterSagrada Família | BarcelonaWashington+1 | Sagrada FamíliaKennedy Center+6 | — | 55m 39s | |
| 6/11/26 | ![]() June 11, 2026 - Dorie Greenspan on Kate Hepburn's brownies, Celtic Art at the HAM, and Jackson Cannon's summer spritzes✨ | brownie recipesCeltic art+4 | Dorie GreenspanSusanne Ebbinghaus+1 | Howard Gotlieb Archival Research CenterHarvard Art Museums+3 | Fenway | Dorie GreenspanKatharine Hepburn+6 | — | 55m 30s | |
| 6/10/26 | ![]() June 10, 2026 - Veronica Robles on Vive Latinoamérica, RoxFilm 2026, and A Midsummer Night's Dream✨ | Latin American culturefilm festival+4 | Veronica RoblesLisa Simmons+1 | Veronica Robles Cultural CenterRoxbury International Film Festival+1 | Boston Symphony Hall | Vive LatinoaméricaRoxFilm+7 | — | 55m 35s | |
| 6/9/26 | ![]() June 9, 2026 - RISE! by the Boston Gay Men's Chorus, Matthew Connors, and Firebird Part 2✨ | Pride Monthprotest+5 | Reuben ReynoldsMatthew Connors+2 | Boston Gay Men's ChorusAbilities Dance Boston+2 | Groton Hill Music CenterBoston University | Boston Gay Men's ChorusPride Month+8 | — | 55m 31s | |
| 6/8/26 | ![]() June 8, 2026 - The 2026 Tony Awards, La CASA in the South End, and Jane Eaglen✨ | Tony AwardsBroadway+4 | Maurice Emmanuel ParentVanessa Calderón-Rosado+1 | The Front Porch Arts CollectiveIBA+3 | South End | Tony AwardsBroadway+6 | — | 55m 38s | |
| 6/5/26 | ![]() June 5, 2026 - Week in Review: Horror films, Taylor Swift's Toy Story tune, and Euphoria✨ | horror filmsTaylor Swift+4 | Lisa SimmonsJeremy Siegel | AmazonDisney+3 | — | horror filmsTaylor Swift+7 | — | 55m 30s | |
| 6/4/26 | ![]() June 4, 2026 - "Fairyland," John Carter Cash, and Baking from Poland and Beyond.✨ | memoirmusic legacy+4 | Alysia AbbottJohn Carter Cash+1 | Fairyland: A Memoir of My FatherThe Complete Johnny Cash: Lyrics from a Lifetime of Songwriting+1 | — | Alysia AbbottJohn Carter Cash+7 | — | 55m 35s | |
| 6/3/26 | ![]() June 3, 2026 - Bob Odenkirk 's "Normal, Geoff Bennett's "Black Out Loud," and Lebanese Baking✨ | Black comedyLebanese culture+5 | Bob OdenkirkGeoff Bennett+1 | PBS NewsHourNormal+2 | Sofra Bakery + CafeAllston | Bob OdenkirkGeoff Bennett+7 | — | 55m 30s | |
| 6/2/26 | ![]() June 2, 2026 - Patti Smith, a new translation of "The Odyssey," and three-time U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky✨ | memoirtranslation+4 | Patti SmithDaniel Mendelsohn+1 | Boston UniversityBread of Angels+1 | — | Patti Smithmemoir+5 | — | 55m 31s | |
| 6/1/26 | ![]() June 1, 2026 - Ethan Hawke, Anthony Amore, and "Dorie's Anytime Cakes"✨ | filmart theft+3 | Ethan HawkeAnthony Amore+1 | Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumDead Poets Society+6 | Boston | Ethan HawkeAnthony Amore+5 | — | 55m 30s | |
| 5/29/26 | ![]() May 29, 2026 - Bobbi Brown, Donnie Wahlberg, and Chef Aidan McGee | Bobbi Brown built a beauty empire on simplicity and self-expression. She joins The Culture Show to talk about her new book “Still Bobbi,” where she lays bare her lessons for reinvention, resilience, and redefining beauty on her own terms.From there, actor, singer and entrepreneur Donnie Wahlberg. Familiar to millions as “Blue Bloods’” Detective Danny Reagan, he spent fourteen seasons solving crimes in New York City. Now Danny Reagan is back — but this time, he’s doing it Boston-style. “Blue Bloods” followed a multi-generational law-enforcement family. In "Boston Blue," Wahlberg once again steps into Reagan’s shoes — this time moving the New York detective to Wahlberg’s own hometown. He joins The Culture Show to talk about a new chapter in the “Blue Bloods” universe and about his homecoming. Finally, McGonagle’s Pub landed a spot on “The New York Times” list of America’s best restaurants, making it the first Irish pub to get this national recognition. Chef Aidan McGee joins The Culture Show to talk about how he is reimagining pub fare. Aidan McGee is the chef patron of The Dubliner and McGonagle's Pu | — | ||||||
| 5/28/26 | ![]() May 28, 2026 - Live from New York City: Derrick Adams and Melissa Errico's Back to Barbara | Artist Derrick Adams joins us to discuss Derrick Adams: View Master, his first major museum survey, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art. The exhibition brings together more than 100 works from the past 25 years — paintings, sculpture, collage, video, performance and public projects — celebrating Black life, leisure and everyday joy. To learn more go here.Tony Award nominee Melissa Errico joins us to talk about Back to Barbra, her new cabaret show with pianist and music director Billy Stritch at 54 Below. A follow-up to The Streisand Effect, the show returns to Barbra Streisand’s music as a conversation about influence, performance and how one singer makes another icon’s songs her own. To learn more go here. Tickets for the May 29 livestream are available here. | — | ||||||
| 5/27/26 | ![]() May 27, 2026 - Live from New York City: Marc Shaiman and Steve Locke | Today on The Culture Show, we're joined by Marc Shaiman, the award-winning composer and lyricist whose work runs from When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle to Hairspray, Smash and Mary Poppins Returns, joins us with his new memoir, Never Mind the Happy. Before the Tonys, the Oscars and the Broadway openings, he was a teenager haunting community theaters, a young musician swept into Bette Midler’s world, and creating a career that would move through the devastation of AIDS, the machinery of Hollywood and the bruising, and thrilling business of making musicals. On June 9th, he'll be at Broadway in Worcester for "An Evening with Mark Shaiman." For tickets and more information, click here.Then artist Steve Locke joins us with his first career monograph,I Said What I Said, a new book featuring three decades of work in painting, sculpture and public art. From portraiture to public memory, Locke’s work confronts race, desire, and history — and asks what America is willing to look at. | — | ||||||
| 5/26/26 | ![]() May 26, 2026 - Danielle Allen, Eve Plumb, and Matthew Shifrin on blind athletics | Today on The Culture Show, Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at Harvard Kennedy School, joins us to discuss her New York Times essay, “Nothing Beats Polarization Like Civics Education” She is the author of Our Declaration and the forthcoming Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat — and the American Revolution — Transformed Britain.Eve Plumb, best known as Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch, joins us to discuss her new memoir, Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond. She’ll be at First Parish Church in Cambridge on June 4 at 7 p.m. for a Harvard Book Store signing of Happiness Included.Matthew Shifrin, founder and CEO of Bricks for the Blind, joins us for “AI: Actual Intelligence” with a look at sports and accessibility. From tennis to cricket to rock climbing, Shifrin explores how adaptations to familiar games can be literally game-changing for blind athletes. | — | ||||||
| 5/25/26 | ![]() May 25, 2026 - Keith Lockhart, Revolutionary Artists, and Paul Revere's Sons of Liberty Bowl | Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart was recently honored with the Third Lantern Award at Old North Church, recognizing his role in using music to connect civic life and shared memory. As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, he joins The Culture Show to reflect on the power of orchestral music at historic moments. Zara Anishanslin joins The Culture Show to talk through her latest book “The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution.” Zara Anishanslin is a Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware. As part of Countdown to 2026, we explore Paul Revere’s Sons of Liberty Bowl, crafted in 1768 to honor a Massachusetts vote rejecting new British taxes. Engraved with the names of lawmakers who opposed those measures, it’s a key artifact of early resistance. Ethan Lasser, Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, joins us for an overview. To learn more about the Sons of Liberty Bowl and the MFA’s exhibitions and programming go here. | — | ||||||
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