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Exclusive: BSO President Chad Smith defends decision to oust Andris Nelsons
In his first broadcast interview, Smith told GBH’s The Culture Show that the decision to part ways with Nelsons stems from "a need for alignment."
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November 13, 2026 - Week in Review: MLK's manuscripts, advent calendars, and Heated Rivalry
Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Maurice Parent discuss the week's arts and culture headlines, including: Martin Luther King Jr.’s handwritten draft of his “I Have a Dream” speech is headed to auction, where it’s expected to fetch more than $10 million. We look at the history behind this discovery. From pickles to protein powder, Advent calendars have become a multibillion-dollar business. We look at how counting down to Christmas became a retail phenomenon. Garth Brooks is looking to change the frequency of women on country radio with a new Nashville FM stationdedicated to music by women in country. Chicago has a new art movement — or it would if the art could move. We look at the internet prank that inspired hundreds of people to push Anish Kapoor’s Bean seven inches to the left. Heated Rivalry is headed into overtime. The hit Canadian hockey romance reportedly has two more seasons and a movie on the way. Callie Crossley is co-host of The Culture Show and host of Under the Radar with Callie Crossley, which airs Sundays at 6 p.m. on 89.7 GBH. Maurice Parent is an award-winning actor, Professor of Theater at Tufts University and Producing Artistic Director of the Front Porch Arts Collective. -
November 12, 2026 - Imari Paris Jeffries, The Platinum Age of Gospel, and Mark Dion
Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston and co-chair of Everyone 250, returns for his monthly “AI: Actual Intelligence” conversation with Jared Bowen. Gospel singer and Harvard University music professor Charrise Barron discusses her new book, The Platinum Age of Gospel: The Years When Crossover Music Changed Everything, exploring how artists like Kirk Franklin and Mary Mary brought gospel music into the mainstream—and what that commercial success meant for worship in Black churches. Internationally acclaimed conceptual artist Mark Dion discusses Eccentric Collectors Like Us, his exhibition at the Concord Museum inspired by its 19th-century founder, Cummings Davis, whose fascination with historical relics and unusual objects helped create the museum. Dion explores the impulses behind collecting and how they shape the histories we preserve. -
November 11, 2026 - Bloomberg Public Science Common at the MoS, leaving your leaves, and Ruben Toledo
Tim Ritchie, president of Boston's Museum of Science, discusses its nearly 200-year legacy and the new William and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Science Common, bringing scientists, artists and the public together to explore the future of science. Before you reach for the rake, Uli Lorimer, Director of Horticulture at Native Plant Trust and author of The Northeast Native Plant Primer, explains why fallen leaves are essential to a healthy garden and offers advice on preparing for winter. Acclaimed artist and fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo, known for his creative partnership with the late designer Isabel Toledo, gives centuries of New England design the A-to-Z treatment. As Historic New England's inaugural artist-in-residence, he's created an interactive mural at its new center in Haverhill. -
November 10, 2026 - Andrew Coville on "Somewhere in Between" and David Rubenstein on "Declaring the Revolution"
Two young Marines went to war, but only one came home. In his memoir Somewhere in Between, Andrew Coville recounts the death of his close friend and his struggle to find purpose in a life shaped by grief, survival and service. Tomorrow night Coville will be at Cape Cinema, in conversation with author Sebastian Junger, to discuss his forthcoming documentary Living the Dream: Life, Loss & Meaning, Before America declared independence, it had to win the war of words. Billionaire financier, philanthropist and Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein has spent decades collecting and preserving American history. Now, rare documents from his collection, including Paul Revere's depiction of the Boston Massacre and Thomas Paine's Common Sense, are on display in Declaring the Revolution: America's Printed Path to Independence at the JFK Presidential Library. Rubenstein joins us to explore the words and images that helped give birth to a nation -
November 9, 2026 - The Memory Quilt Project, Chris Botti, and Lloyd Schwartz
Artist and former WBZ-TV journalist Kasey Kaufman spent a year at Newton Cemetery and Arboretum collecting memories from families and transforming them into a quilt of paintings, photographs, handwritten words and collage. She joins us to discuss The Memory Quilt Project: What Remains, on view at the Copley Society of Art through November 21. Grammy-winning trumpeter Chris Botti has spent decades crossing musical boundaries. Now he's returning to his jazz roots while leaving plenty of room for improvisation and unexpected collaborations. Ahead of his Thanksgiving-weekend performances at The Wilbur on November 27 and 28, Lloyd Schwartz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic and Somerville poet laureate joins us to discuss Artur Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti Play Mozart at the Frick Collection (April 4, 1948) and Other Poems. Schwartz will also appear at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge on November 9 at 7 p.m.
