Wednesday, 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 12:50PMTuesday, November 25, 2014
With grace and wit, Alexander Calder's artwork integrated poetry and science, aesthetics and engineering.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:53PMAmong the most haunting aspects of Roman Polanski’s 1971 film version of Macbeth is his visceral depiction of the tragedy's violence.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:46AMMonday, November 24, 2014
This was was a truly memorable afternoon at Symphony Hall, filled with interesting programming decisions and exciting revelations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:02PMSunday, November 23, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, and author readings for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:11AMFriday, November 21, 2014
It may seem a bit like overkill, and in many ways it is, but that all depends on your perspective.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:08PMOf all the songs ever written about a woman violated by her brother’s ghost after she decapitates him playing croquet, “The Musical Box” remains the best.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:01AMThursday, November 20, 2014
It would not be overstating the case to say that Mike Nichols was a social and moral barometer for an entire generation of film and theatergoers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:17PMWednesday, November 19, 2014
Because of first-rate performances, St. Vincent rises above Hollywood's standard 'cranky old man finds love through friendship with needy child' trope.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:57AMTuesday, November 18, 2014
Starchitect Renzo Piano and his team did very well given their constraints. It is damn hard to build the right frame for so much abundant beauty.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:38PMSunday, November 16, 2014
What Nerve! takes an innovative and fresh take on a little-noticed but piquant tributary of American art.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:20AMFriday, November 14, 2014
First published in 1964, Jean Merrill’s classic children’s novel has just been reissued by New York Review Books to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:15PMNot all musical retrospectives are a guaranteed success, since time can put rust on many a talent, but Stevie Wonder was ebulliently up for the challenge.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:59AMThursday, November 13, 2014
Reading this book is like listening to a lively conversation from a self-proclaimed Kerouac authority giving his opinions over a café con leche late at night at Cafe Pamplona in Harvard Squ…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:43PMMost museums today dream of coming up with striking public images. In that sense, the Portland Museum of Art's acquisition of SEVEN is a marketing coup.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:00AMMonday, November 10, 2014
"The name meant that we were going to present bands from all around the world, and that we wanted to ‘overthrow’ the pop establishment that had taken over radio.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:29PMM.C. Escher's extraordinary fantasy constructions are captivating visual environments whose frisky improbability beguile.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:04PMWednesday, November 5, 2014
"If you’re dead you won’t have a movement, and guns kept people alive. In particular, kept people who made the movement alive."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:05AMSaturday, November 1, 2014
Simon Fujiwara epitomizes the new model of a successful avant-garde artist in the world today.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:21PMFriday, October 31, 2014
Despite Philip's self-absorbed claptrap, young, successful women seem to be drawn to him. Go figure.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:05PMDespite some awkward staging decisions and the script tampering, there is plenty of lively drive in this production of Hedda Gabler.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMThursday, October 30, 2014
Martin Amis’s fiction, bleak though it often is, paradoxically remains compelling and pleasurable to read because of how well he writes about dreadful things.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:45AMWednesday, October 29, 2014
Unorthodox teases the audience with the come-on that it will be a highly unusual documentary about religion and individual transformation, but it eventually becomes bogged down in less than …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:14PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Have we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AMMonday, October 27, 2014
Neuroplasticity is a bit more fleshed-out than its predecessor, but the album retains ample amounts of the slow to mid-tempo spookiness that Al Spx calls “doom soul.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMA Disappearing Number combines mathematics and drama in ways that will enthrall some, overwhelm others, and puzzle the rest.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AMFilmmakers Ben and Gabe Turner also successfully place the story of Manchester United’s rise in the larger context of what was happening in Great Britain at the time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:06AMFriday, October 24, 2014
So how do four young guys successfully build upon two masterworks while simultaneously facing possible enervation due to record label woes and botched stateside promotion?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:43AMThursday, October 23, 2014
The Rocket is an absorbing, visually stunning film with a backstory not quickly forgotten.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:37PMPatrick Modiano's simple sentences pull one in; the nostalgia of loss and pain of youth and the hunt for a vague, romantic Other are easy to relate to.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:19AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Botso teaches children the joie de vivre of music and he is remarkably successful.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:32AM 
