Sunday, February 15, 2015
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42PMMonday, February 9, 2015
Gumshoes in Tap Shoes, a dance noir with '60s big-band music from the likes of Henry Mancini, is an ambitious project.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:20PMA Most Violent Year is nothing if not intense.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:51PMSunday, February 8, 2015
Bomb Magazine’s goal is not merely to comment on the arts, it is about making art.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:20PMSaturday, February 7, 2015
The most important takeaway from American Justice 2014 is the potential danger, from Epps’s perspective, of the growing influence of Justice Alito.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:15AMThe actors in the central roles are extremely fine, particularly Kathleen McElfresh's beautifully nuanced performance as the anguished Bridget O'Sullivan.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Nathan Benn's gorgeous color photographs paint a complex vision of Vermont as a place of constancy and change.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AMTuesday, February 3, 2015
"To say that the occult 'saved' it is really to say that the spiritual agitation is at the heart of what was able to bring rock ‘n’ roll to its most interesting places."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:51AMMonday, February 2, 2015
Go ahead, name another older rocker this side of Iggy Pop who can get away with playing most of his show bare-chested.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:46AMSaturday, January 31, 2015
Israeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht's new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMFriday, January 30, 2015
Why is The Water-Babies a classic fairy tale? It doesn’t take itself too seriously, yet it doesn't ignore important issues.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:59AMWednesday, January 28, 2015
Otto Piene's art is at once appealing, accessible, and yet somehow unworldly: joyful mystery yoked to dynamic playfulness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMTuesday, January 27, 2015
American Sniper is classic Clint Eastwood. Dirty Harry vs the bad guys, and the bad guys all look like 'them.'
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:37AMSunday, January 25, 2015
Inherent Vice is a giddy, trippy potpourri that tries to make a virtue of never quite settling on what kind of story it wants to tell.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:46PMSaturday, January 24, 2015
To his credit, Garry Wills does not attempt to tell us what Shakespeare or his contemporaries “really meant,” nor does he suggest that there are ways that these plays ought be staged.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:37PMJohannes Moser is a cellist I have admired for some years, based on his solid discography, innovative programming decisions, and championing of lesser-known and new compositions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AMThursday, January 22, 2015
Selma doesn't dare to offer the viewer anything new.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:00AMSaturday, January 17, 2015
This was the sixth consecutive year the double bill of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven hit the Middle East on MLK weekend; it was sold-out as usual.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:22PMThursday, January 15, 2015
Of all the cinematic indictments of the 1% that have flooded the multiplex in the wake of the financial crisis, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher stands as one of the most understated.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:02PMMonday, January 12, 2015
Highlighting the identity of artists is essential in art world journalism, but it appears to be unimportant when reporting on the artistic contributions to political street demonstrations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:29PMIntentionally or not, much of the "Hot Stove, Cook Music" concert was flashback to the Boston scene 20 years ago .
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:31AMSunday, January 11, 2015
The Imitation Game is a movie that should have made us angry, but it merely makes us sad.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:28PMArts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, author events, and theater for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:20PMTuesday, January 6, 2015
Not since the closing of Boston's Exeter Street Theatre have so many of Alex Guinness's classic films been available to be viewed on a local big screen.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:51AMMonday, January 5, 2015
National Pride (and Prejudice) wants us to reexamine the relationship between a country's iconic images and its not-so-reassuring realities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:58AM"I think a lot of people around town are fairly aware of the Red Sox’s checkered history in terms of race."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:51AMSunday, January 4, 2015
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, author events, and theater for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:53AMTuesday, December 30, 2014
If your tastes run to finely crafted songwriting, then the standout event between Christmas and New Year’s is when Melissa Ferrick and Marshall Crenshaw roll into Club Passim on separate n…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:20AMMonday, December 29, 2014
In The Gambler, Mark Whalberg gives a performance he should be proud of.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:01AMSunday, December 28, 2014
Holiday Edition: Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, author events, and theater for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:20AMSaturday, December 27, 2014
At their best, the exhibitions at the restored, renovated, and expanded Cooper-Hewitt Museum explore the history and culture of design and decorative arts with transcendent panache.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54PM 
