Arts Year In Review: A year of culture

With Newport-Mesans in the Olympics, contentious City Council elections and those Mitt and Barack guys grabbing headlines, it was a busy year for news — and the arts proved to be no exception. We could try to order this into a conventional "top 10 stories" or some such thing, but because the arts are always playful and surprising and sometimes impossible to classify, we'll approach our year-end wrapup the same way. Here were some of the highlights of the cultural scene in 2012:

By Rhea Mahbubani and Michael Miller

December 27, 2012