Saturday, 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 12:54PMFriday, December 26, 2014
Walter is pure evil. Margaret is pure good. And that is Big Eye's undoing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:57AMTuesday, December 23, 2014
Wild is a compelling stream-of-consciousness narrative that mirrors how we actually make sense of our life experiences as we have them and then remember them.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:22PMMonday, December 22, 2014
So many of the truly gifted actors of the British stage and screen of the 1960s 'kitchen sink' dramas are rapidly leaving us. One of the best, Billie Whitelaw, departed this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:10PMSunday, December 21, 2014
Holiday Edition: Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, and theater for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:43AMSaturday, December 20, 2014
Many superb live shows over the past year -- but there were some that were memorable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMFriday, December 19, 2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings is a tribute to those overblown biblical movies of the 1950s, albeit with all the eye-candy trappings that today's high tech special effects can offer.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:05PMThursday, December 18, 2014
What made for the best rock and alternative music listening this year? Arts Fuse critics make their choices.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:21PMOur demanding critics choose the best and worst films of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
More than holiday knock-offs, Nick Lowe’s Christmas songs were his strongest batch of originals in awhile.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:32PMAward-winning historian Joel Williamson would seem to have the credentials to illuminate Elvis as a distinctly Southern phenomenon.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMAndrew Roberts has succeeded in a single volume in reconciling the two faces of this historical colossus.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
[Updated] Wondering about what to give the arts and culture lover on your gift list? No problem—the sage writers for The Arts Fuse (with an assist from our readers) come to the rescue with…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:35PMWhether you are new or returning to the Super Smash Bros. series as a veteran, get this title on the Wii U and skip the 3DS version -- unless you absolutely have to have the game on-the-go.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:28PMSunday, December 14, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:49PMSaturday, December 13, 2014
Be prepared for some challenging, off-the-beaten path choices, including a new tradition.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:27AMThursday, December 11, 2014
For those of us who love Christmas music, Aimee Mann and company showed how to do it right: a lot of lovely songs and festive spirits, not a lot of sticky sentiment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:41AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
As is the case with all public spaces, Magazine Beach reflects the sensibilities and desires of its users, who ruined, abandoned, embraced, and transformed the area.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:05AMTuesday, December 9, 2014
If the fate of life on earth comes down to mother and daughter bonding over a racy passage in Anaïs Nin, then he whales should just call it a day.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:32PMMr. Airplane Man was beloved in the local blues world and the Abbey Lounge garage-rock circuit. They play their first local shows in nine years this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:04AMMonday, December 8, 2014
Mariana Rondón's Bad Hair is a beautifully acted film about the stultifying pressures on downtrodden lives.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:16AMThis week, The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) announced that Cathy Edwards will become NEFA's new Executive Director.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:23AMSunday, December 7, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, theater, and author readings for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:21PMFriday, December 5, 2014
Entertaining yet incisive, The Conquest of Plassans remains a devastatingly acute reminder that religion and politics make surprisingly compatible bedfellows.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:16PMThursday, December 4, 2014
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA is a delightful exhibition dedicated to vehicular speed, mobility, style, and joy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:23AMMonday, December 1, 2014
If you want to expand your heart and mind this holiday season, you couldn’t do better than go to The Little Prince.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:52PMCharies D'Ambrosio's short fiction collections were finalists for major awards, but it is his essays that I return to again and again.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52AMSunday, November 30, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, theater, and author readings for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:19PMSaturday, November 29, 2014
In 1957, Women’s Wear Daily called Andy Warhol “the Leonardo da Vinci of the shoe trade."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:22PMFriday, November 28, 2014
At their best, each artist leverages the power of abstraction to bewilder in playful ways that provoke compelling ideas and a variety of emotional reactions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMWednesday, November 26, 2014
The irony is that there is precious little theory in The Theory of Everything -- no real exploration of Stephen Hawking's ideas and what makes them so important.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:50PM 
