Thursday, June 5, 2014
Retired Associate Justice John Paul Stevens' book Six Amendments is unlikely to restore any of the love lost between him and the GOP.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:07AMMonday, June 2, 2014
Even by the standards of prog shows, which only get close to mainstream if a Yes or Rush is headlining, these bands were largely from the underground.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:58PMSunday, June 1, 2014
At times, David Thomson's movie criticism resembles the approach of old-school British critics (the Walter Pater or John Ruskin variety) who didn’t mind occasionally cutting loose from bei…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:05PMFriday, May 30, 2014
The reason these films are in this series is because of their color, and they do not disappoint.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:58PMThe life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against ugliness. -- the late Massimo Vignelli
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:17AMBay Staters, be warned - we are living in a state without an official rock song. Luckily, if we pitch in, we can help the government solve this problem.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:22AMAt the core of Philip Levine’s poetry one hears the rhythms and the pulses of working people, smells their sweat, feels their heartaches.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:06AMTuesday, May 27, 2014
German architect Hans Scharoun's compelling story, as both a man and an artist navigating perilous times, has been neglected (aside from architectural historians and seriously informed stude…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:25AMIt’s sort of like someone snatching the epic novel you’re a few chapters from the end of out of your hands and subsequently run off cackling into the sunset, only to allow you to finish …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:38AMSunday, May 25, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week. By The Arts Fuse Staff Dance The Legacy of Joe Gifford…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PMColdplay's "Ghost Stories" is not a fun or happy listen, but it is a worthwhile one.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:03AMSaturday, May 24, 2014
Michael Nesmith’s proto-Americana songs had aged the least—listen to the jangly guitar and stream-of-conscious lyric on “Tapioca Tundra” and you’d swear that was where R.E.M. got t…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:53AMThursday, May 22, 2014
The tunes on Joey Pizza Slice's new LP are personal enough to leave many listeners scratching their heads, asking “Is this guy for real?”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:18PMTuesday, May 20, 2014
Boston's MFA should be congratulated for screening these Technicolor musicals in way that does wondrous justice to their eye-popping colors.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:41PMThree Boston-based arts colleges have completed major structures. Each has taken a different aesthetic path to assert its very own institutional signature.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:14AMMonday, May 19, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:35AMSaturday, May 17, 2014
The idea of having glittery, Bettie Page-y young women clad in leather and thongs undulate to music by Tom Waits in any context is pretty much guaranteed to work.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:59AMFriday, May 16, 2014
Though Barry Gibb performed most of his life with the Bee Gees, he was surprisingly un-slick as a showman.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:22PMKen Schaphorst and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts made the case for Sun Ra as an egyptologist (who claimed to be from Saturn).
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:33AMThursday, May 15, 2014
It seems deeply appropriate that a superb book of essays by W.G. Sebald about his favorite writers should be his swan song.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:25AMWednesday, May 14, 2014
The band was still Television and often as not, still magnificent.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:16PMTuesday, May 13, 2014
Although "Growing Cities" plays a bit like a home movie, it at least scores points for enthusiasm.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AMMonday, May 12, 2014
A captivating story, indeed. But is Vivian Maier, suddenly famous, and the subject of a new film, the John Maloof-directed Finding Vivian Maier, a worthy artist?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:29PMThe conceit of "On the Verge" is fascinating, inviting us, as all first rate speculative or science fiction does, to see our past through different lenses.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:31AMSunday, May 11, 2014
I hope thousands of people show up to see Le Grand Continental-Boston next weekend. Not to see me, but to see how dance can change the way we appreciate our world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Louis C.K.'s "Louie" is a master class in straddling highbrow and lowbrow.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:57PMTuesday, May 6, 2014
The comic material here may be of the rubber chicken variety, but the Reduced Shakespeare Company performers are remarkably talented men.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:05AMMonday, May 5, 2014
As we freelancers like to say, you can die from exposure.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMSo what we have is a failure of nerve -- a reluctance to make students grapple with the considerable demands of James Baldwin's prose and sensibility.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMFriday, May 2, 2014
The complete "Hill Street Blues" is a godsend for those eager to venture beyond "Law and Order" and "CSI" dynasties.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:55PM 
