Thursday, January 9, 2014
Few artists in history have been as multifarious and prolific as Paul Klee--only Picasso and Ernst come to mind.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMFriday, January 3, 2014
Evaluating actress Judi Dench is akin to watching a great athlete do a high dive or land a difficult jump on ice skates. She nails it so often that you half expect a row of judges to hold up…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:38PMTuesday, December 31, 2013
Fuse Writer Harvey Blume supplies some quotations for the new year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:17PMMonday, December 30, 2013
Melissa Ferrick joined the songwriting faculty at Berklee, where she dropped out as a student two decades ago. The Berklee influence may account for the increased craft in her songs,.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMFriday, December 27, 2013
Bravura performances are provided by all involved, making Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" quite possibly the best film of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:31AMSunday, December 22, 2013
Without its many steamy lesbian sex interludes tarting up what could otherwise be classified as a routine narrative, would "Blue is the Warmest Color" have garnered so many rave reviews and …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:07PMSaturday, December 21, 2013
Martin Scorsese is a tireless champion of this kind of restoration; the World Cinema Project is committed to doing the indispensable work needed to save examples of unknown but worthy landma…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:59AMThursday, December 19, 2013
After 2010's too spare "Three Stations," fans old and new will find Martin Cruz Smith back in full form with "Titiana," creating a taut, subtle, often darkly funny and even moving tale.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:59AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
The documentary "The Punk Singer" is a welcome, informative portrait of riot grrrl icon Kathleen Hanna, the former lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:17PMTuesday, December 17, 2013
At this time of year, a bit of silliness can be expected and even appreciated. The Fools doing a metal song about holiday-shopping stress? Of course.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:46AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Molecular gastronomy, the application of scientific principles to the understanding of domestic and gastronomic food principles is shaking up the food world harder than Shake ‘n Bake.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:28PMThere was a moment when I turned around and thought, 'I am definitely in a Coen brothers movie. This is crazy.'
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:00PMSunday, December 15, 2013
Though disguised in holiday trappings, 1947's "The Bishop’s Wife" is about human frailty, thwarted ambition, and the humble rewards that accompany doing the right thing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMSaturday, December 14, 2013
Arts Fuse Critics pick the best in music albums this year. Feel free to agree, disagree, and add your own favorites.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:25PMFriday, December 13, 2013
The Winthrop Street building that houses Upstairs on the Square is getting a new owner who has plans for a different kind of restaurant. So Upstairs proprietors Deborah Hughes and Mary-Cathe…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:20PMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Artist Richard Thomas Scott is currently working on his new Kickstarter project, “30 Paintings in 30 Days.” Sponsors pitch him inspirations ("Challenge me to paint something I've never d…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:29PMSunday, December 8, 2013
Would it be all that nervy to ask if, in the coming years, there might be more, not less, musical experimentation? Couldn't the Boston Pops commission a new seasonal work and showcase it?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:37PMSaturday, December 7, 2013
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 thoughtfu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:01PMFriday, November 29, 2013
As the individual who quite possibly had the best seats in the house for the monumental legal battle that unfolded over the course of a few weeks in the summer of 1971, James Goodale provers…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:11AMWednesday, November 27, 2013
It was intimidating to go into a situation with a director (Alexander Payne) that you love so much and an actor (Bruce Dern) who has done so much and worked with so many amazing people.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:44PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
What makes Childsplay unique and inspiring is its back story. Every one of the fiddles played on stage was made by Bob Childs, a Cambridge-based luthier who has been making exceptional instr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:25AMMonday, November 25, 2013
A collection of poems and essays, edited and translated by the award-winning poet Michael Hofmann, by the admired German poet Gottfried Benn, who, because of his brief association with Nazis…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:04PMThursday, November 21, 2013
Art Spiegelman believes that "MAD" magazine was more subversive for his generation of protesters than either marijuana or LSD. It certainly radicalized him.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:27AMMonday, November 18, 2013
Hopefully, Death Grips can keep finding new ways to convey contemporary dissonance, because as it stands now they have produced four of the most important musical works of the 21st Century.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:14AMThursday, November 14, 2013
Capleton's cancellation at Boston's Hibernian Hall shows that reggae stars can’t easily escape their anti-gay discographies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
Dudley Square's Hibernian Hall has canceled a concert slated for Friday night by a reggae star with a past history of virulently anti-gay lyrics.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:32PMTuesday, November 5, 2013
A pithy critical consideration of new releases from Flaming Lips, The Frights, Mind Spiders, Radioactivity, Ólöf Arnalds, Lee Bannon, Armand Hammer, and Haunted Horses.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:43AMSunday, November 3, 2013
This remains a vision of a dystopian universe, but in the hands of these performers "Waiting for Godot"'s angst exudes as much antic warmth as it does cold angst.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:26PMWednesday, October 30, 2013
In a way, this collection of hip writing, a “literary mixtape,” is the ultimate embodiment of the vision of the Hipster-as-Curator.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
Lou Reed has left us, but the truths he took pains to show us about ourselves and our society - much as we try to cover them up - remain.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:46AMMonday, October 28, 2013
The slow tempos on the whole didn’t hurt the show. People were there to hear Madeleine Peryoux — her voice and delivery, her offbeat arrangements and particular idiosyncratic take on fam…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:07PM 
