Thursday, September 12, 2013
Many artistically inclined people would probably cite Frida Kahlo or Diego Rivera as the region’s representative artists. That is a shame, because the breath of contemporary Latin American…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:16AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
Hilary Holladay’s biography of Herbert Huncke provides valuable insight into a person and world that were begging to be explored. American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Squa…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
While luminary thespians and film stars such as Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer have trod the Stratford Festival boards, let me sing the praises of two actresses: Martha Henry and Mich…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:18PMMonday, September 9, 2013
AM, the Sheffield band’s fifth album and their heaviest and danciest to date, isn’t for pre-gaming, or the start of the party. It’s for the wee hours, when the fog is thickest and you …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:25PMReviews of the latest music from Dean Blunt, Aaron Dilloway, Ulver, Perhaps, Wormlust, and Syndrome.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:41AMFriday, September 6, 2013
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, music, and theater that’s coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:08PMThursday, September 5, 2013
Leon Fleisher was part of an outburst of great North American pianists. Many were ill-fated, but, as this commanding box set proves, Fleisher stayed the course.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:05AMThe pleasure of Talley's Folly is in its details, the give-and-take of the dialogue, the smaller and larger revelations they tease out of each other, the characterization of the two human cr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AMWednesday, September 4, 2013
I fully support the themes that Peggy Shinn explores, articulated in Deluge's subtitle: this one small state did save itself.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:22PM“A great novel makes for the best script an actor could imagine,” said actor Colin Firth recently, on accepting an award for his reading of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair. Many th…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:29PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Satoko Fujii’s quartet could go from 0 to 100 at the drop of a hat, but only once in a while, and nearly always at the perfect time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:36PMIn Hesitation Marks, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor foregoes trendy flourishes. He might have delivered a set of competently-made, stripped-back industrial tunes. But the end result is monoto…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:19AMMonday, September 2, 2013
Jessie Reijonen’s eclectic and spacious approach to jazz is a deliberate attempt to investigate, not necessarily fuse, his disparate roots.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:30AMSunday, September 1, 2013
The documentary was originally screened at South by Southwest in 2010 while Levon Helm was still alive, but with his death from cancer in 2012, the film now serves as a heartfelt tribute to …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:56PMSaturday, August 31, 2013
Pianist Marc Cary came to Sculler’s to play the neglected compositions of celebrated singer Abbey Lincoln.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:43PMLindsay Lohan's prostituting herself to a dreary vision of a Tinseltown shorn of even flickers of glory. And I like that.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:11PMFriday, August 30, 2013
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, music and theater that’s coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMThursday, August 29, 2013
An evening that showed yet again how pop (even “modern” pop) can serve as nourishment for new jazz.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:48PMApparently, an agency like the MBTA can simply take a wrecking ball to pieces of public art such as "Omphalos" when their existence becomes an encumbrance. No questions asked.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:18PMFuse film critic Betsy Sherman has written a series of haiku inspired by an all-night marathon of film noir screenings.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:13PMWednesday, August 28, 2013
There is a paucity of richness in The Goddess Chronicle. The myth might have been, but wasn't, mined for tales of compassion, or inevitability of sorrow, or the psychology of misogyny or of …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:39AMLike Lo Fi High Fives, Personal Appeal might not be a “best of” per se, but it is certainly a good entry point for those who have been daunted by R. Stevie Moore’s massive and impressi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:57AMMonday, August 26, 2013
There’s still an opening for someone to come along and write the final, definitive word on Black Flag. In the meantime, Spray Paint the Walls is a more than worthy placeholder, and is high…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:58PMScissors is a roman à clef. But Stéphane Michaka has not composed a fictionalized biography mapping out the itinerary of Raymond Carver’s life. The novelist above all focuses on the crea…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:17PMSunday, August 25, 2013
Singer/songwriter Paula Cole’s musical and personal journey has been a long, sometimes painful hejira.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:30AMFriday, August 23, 2013
Marian McPartland, who died on August 20 at the age of 95, was many things: a charming, gracious, and also tough-minded woman, an educator and mentor to many, an author, a business woman, an…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMArts Fuse critics select the best in music and theater that’s coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:30AMAlan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular is a comedy of total narcissism — belly-laugh jokes accompanied by a cold cruelty.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:31AMThursday, August 22, 2013
Weirdly paradoxical as the description may be, “bummer pop” is the best way to characterize the breezy half hour’s worth of music in Porches' new album.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:47PMAccording to Chick Corea, this recording contains first impressions of the compositions that he’ll be playing with his band on upcoming tours. It’ll be interesting to hear how these tune…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
The late Cedar Walton was part of some of the most potent bands in the history of jazz, most famously Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:18PM 
