Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Botso teaches children the joie de vivre of music and he is remarkably successful.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:32AMAndrew Barbato’s play turns the Dormouse, the White Queen, and even the Red Queen (“Off with their heads!”) into nurturing Montessori teachers, concerned with comforting and reassuring…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AMTuesday, October 21, 2014
Cohen fans, rejoice - Popular Problems proves that the power and depth of his music haven’t faded now that the man singing them is officially an octogenarian.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:01AMSaturday, October 18, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual arts, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:44PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
Bruce Allen Murphy conveys the impression that Scalia knows how he feels on every issue before the briefs have been argued.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
The biography is a remarkable read. It has all the hefty research you'd expect from a scholarly work, yet the story is told through prose fit for a great novel.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:05PMMonday, October 13, 2014
So much of what this novel has to say feels bracing and necessary. This is where a good part of America lives—dangling over a chasm.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:27PMFriday, October 10, 2014
The Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University reopened in September after a fifteen month hiatus to re-assess its inventory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:49AMThursday, October 9, 2014
Some fifty-five objects trace a legacy of casual brutality and white hegemony that is at the heart of Yale University’s—and this nation’s—founding.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:13PMFiber takes on two key aesthetic ideas -- gravity and the grid -- and one major sociological one, the way fiber arts were created and exhibited as part of a larger feminist agenda.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMSunday, October 5, 2014
Director David Fincher does a good job at making our skin crawl while we chuckle at the audacity of the goings-ons in Gone Girl.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44AMSaturday, October 4, 2014
The excellent E-Team documents a remarkable effort to investigate the abuse of human rights, an endeavor that, for the most part, goes unheralded in our mainstream media.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:41AMWednesday, October 1, 2014
Each John Oliver monologue takes an different weighty and urgent political issue ( and deconstructs it with wit, clarity and moral purpose.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:00AMTuesday, September 30, 2014
Otto Dov Kulka's exploration of the time he spent in Auschwitz as a child won the 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize, one of the judges calling it "the greatest book on Auschwitz since Prim…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:25PMMonday, September 29, 2014
This was a band that took its reunion as a personal challenge to come off as reckless as they did in their prime.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:41PMSunday, September 28, 2014
A People’s History of the New Boston takes the “grassroots” view and tries to give overdue credit to the role that community activists and neighborhood residents played in building the…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:27PMThough acknowledged as one of the half-dozen or so key figures in Latin American modern art, Wilfredo Lam’s status in the modernist canon is unclear.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:01AMThursday, September 25, 2014
In The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesqu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:32PMWednesday, September 24, 2014
Never mind all the timeless melodies Glenn Tilbrook’s written: Anyone who can rhyme the name Persephone with “incessantly” deserves immortality for that alone.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:38PMIn F, vertigo is often palpable. Evil exists. "The terrifying beauty of things" does, too.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:29AMTuesday, September 23, 2014
Mayor Walsh Announces Cabinet Level Chief of Arts and Culture. Important step in ongoing elevation of arts in Boston, Appointee led Chicago’s cultural planning process.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:03PMThe most striking part of The Better Angels is its cinematography. The naked branches on the thick, gray trees are silhouetted against a sky that seems unable to hold sunlight.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:11PMSaturday, September 20, 2014
In the musical Far From Heaven, the pleasure of Cathy's first-act dream overwhelms the anguish of her second-act awakening.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:21PMWith Color Crossing, Kate Gilbert wanted to showcase “the collision between sights and sounds that make Downtown Crossing so vibrant.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:01AMFriday, September 19, 2014
Masters of Doom: the band Earth forges a classic in an aged, durable style of heavy metal.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AMThursday, September 18, 2014
Two new documentaries: one a love story about two athletes, the other an attempt to chronicle a small resistance movement among German students against the Nazis.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:17PMTuesday, September 16, 2014
At its deepest level, Emilie invokes the quest we all undertake to make sense of who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMSunday, September 14, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual art, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PMFriday, September 12, 2014
As expected, Expedition to the End of the World is visually stunning. The problem is that we needed to see more of the world and hear less yakking from the humans who inhabit it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:14PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
The evening was not just a pleasurable throwback to '80s digital reggae riddims, but drew on the misogyny and homophobia that dominated reggae during that era.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:10AMMonday, September 8, 2014
If you’ve still got your collegiate cynicism, Steely Dan is still the perfect band to feed it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AM 
