Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Among the reviews: a terrific, important release that celebrates one of the most interesting – and hitherto overlooked – composers of the late-19th- and early-20th centuries in style. Do…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 01:06AMSunday, October 20, 2019
If Castle Rock is intended to be a commentary on Trump’s not-so-great America, well, what better genre than horror to spread the angst?
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 10:48PMThere was nothing sleepy or commonplace about the ensemble’s performance of favorites by Mozart, Brahms, and Bartók.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 10:48PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 02:54PMThis is a non-union production, and that means the actors are being paid a fraction of what they would be getting if the tour were offering performers a union contract.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 02:54PMFriday, October 18, 2019
"I wrote those poems because I think people need to read the truth and to hear the truth about romantic sensibilities between gay people."
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 04:48PMParasite's powerful vision of the existentially downtrodden offers equal nods to Karl Marx and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 04:48PMThursday, October 17, 2019
Black + White from the Fernanda Ghi Dance Company was provocative, dramatic, and oh-so-mysterious.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 05:54PM"What is the function of literary criticism in a Disinformation Age? Read, reread, describe, evaluate, appreciate: that is the art of literary criticism for the present time." -- Harold Bloo…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 01:24PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here's an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 11:33PMI wanted to give my kids this gift of a book about them and for them.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 11:33PM“They were pieces of shit when we shot ‘em, but later on they became relics.”
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 11:48AMThis is a wonderfully readable book, sure-footed in its scholarship but hip and occasionally hilarious in its tone.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 11:48AMNo author has addressed the issue of sexual assault so much on her own terms, and in such a personal and powerful way.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 11:48AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Jeremy O. Harris’s bold new play is wildly provocative and hysterically funny.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMLike Breaking Bad, El Camino subtly suggests that justice is a relative concept.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMFriday, October 11, 2019
jaimie branch knows music has to be wild and dangerous and beautiful to cut through all the distractions of our times.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 07:36PMIn Cypress Grove, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes’ deep Bentonia guitar remains pure and present, while his vocals, which have never sounded better, are solid and vibrant throughout.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 07:36PMThursday, October 10, 2019
“I’ve put out records by myself before, but this is like 10 times the work!”
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 01:36PMWhat remains so seductive about Almodovar is the way he replicates the movement of thought, creating a seamless weave between the story moving forward -- rather minimal in this case -- and t…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMWednesday, October 9, 2019
The highly entertaining gala celebrated the five decade long partnership between TV's Sesame Street and Harvard University.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 01:43PMSteven Price creates a mid-twentieth century world that is filled with the same kind of conflicts that Lampedusa himself confronted in writing The Leopard, his great novel about nineteenth c…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMMonday, October 7, 2019
The hit 1969 song "The Spirit in the Sky" by Malden’s own Norman Greenbaum is the inspiration for one of several new works of public art.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 10:24PMEnjoy Boston Camerata's Free America! for its high spirits and its crafty, delicious way of making the iconoclasm of the past come alive.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 05:24PMSunday, October 6, 2019
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles is nothing if not provocative fodder for a cinematic niche: the animated feature sheds intriguing light on one of the major film directors of the 20th…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMSaturday, October 5, 2019
Tinariwen's music exudes determination, the soulful energy of ethnic resilience.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 01:24PMHad the curatorial parameters been tighter in concept, and more generous regarding the source of the work, the MFA might have produced a great, rather than just a good, exhibit. .
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 12:33AMChristian Tetzlaff’s brilliant account of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto makes for a great album; Rachel Barton Pine’s versions of Dvorák and Khachaturian violin concertos are songful; o…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 12:33AMFriday, October 4, 2019
Brandeis’ Rose Art Museum presents a creative, insightful look at urban blight.
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Linked From The Arts Fuse at 08:06PMTo Paradise for Onions is a lovely album; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 's Transatlantic is spirited; Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Die Zauberflöte is lost in the crowd.
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