Wednesday, 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 08:18PMNo one associates Winslow Homer with abstraction, but Sleigh Ride (1893) indicates that he at times ventured into the non-figurative borders of landscape painting Edgar Degas was exploring i…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:41PMThe last of the summer festivals are finalizing their lineups just as many of the fall indoor festivals have announced theirs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:17AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
There are plenty of intensely moving moments in this expansive biopic, based very loosely on a real White House butler named Eugene Allen, who was profiled by Wil Haygood in a 2008 Washingto…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:02PMThere was a great deal of obfuscatory hype about this LP, but the time to listen to the music has finally come. And Earl Sweatshirt has delivered what sounds like a hip hop classic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMIn this brilliantly written play, Kenneth Lonergan finds both the humor and angst in the moral muddle generated by the Reagan Revolution.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:29AMMonday, August 19, 2013
The Boston Harbor Shipyard is a nifty setting for public art, redolent of old-school fisherman and maritime work. Its fading grandeur of weatherbeaten brick buildings, crumbling facades and …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:13AMSunday, August 18, 2013
Perhaps it is not so much that the characters are thinly developed but that it is hard to make them out through the scrim of their Dostoevskian lucubrations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:25PMFriday, August 16, 2013
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that's coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:05AMThursday, August 15, 2013
If the music that can touch you so deeply with so few notes weren't so magical, there's also Emahoy Tsegue-Mariam Guebru's fascinating back-story.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:05PMWe stirred in a number of scrappier shows at more experimental venues and were treated to Edinburgh's wild and wonderful arts extravaganza.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
So what's a hero to do but throw punches and kicks in the name of love and forgiveness?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:52PMThe third and latest LP from indie singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter proffers a vision of urban ecstasy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42AMSunday, August 11, 2013
What carries Blue Jasmine over the moon is the breathtaking, Oscar-worthy performance of Cate Blanchett, whose tortured Park Avenue socialite on the skids is among the most stunning performa…
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Amanda Seyfried gives a sensitive performance as Linda Lovelace; Peter Sarsgaard is chilling as Chuck Traynor, the abusive husband who saw her as sex-object and potential money-making machin…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:29PMThursday, August 8, 2013
This entertaining and provocative work, made in 1981 by the now 85-year-old director, fits into his oeuvre as a complement to his best known movie among American art-film fans, 1974's Célin…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:21PMThe current revival of Laughing Stock, directed again by the playwright, has softer edges than I remember in the earlier one, played with fluidity rather than crackle.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:18PMTuesday, August 6, 2013
Nourishments is an emphatic musical statement from a seasoned bandleader, returning to the front of a traditional combo
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"Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān" is a mesmerizing study that will enchant anyone interested in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural explorations of the history of science that transform the way w…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AMFriday, August 2, 2013
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that's coming up this week.
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The latest LP from the dream pop band Candy Claws turns out to be its most profound and impressive statement to date.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:38PMWednesday, July 31, 2013
I am probably the last person anyone would see as a hip hop fan, but I walked out of the theater with a new appreciation for the music and the satisfaction of experiencing an old-fashioned …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMTuesday, July 30, 2013
With its latest LP, Gogol Bordello offers some of the most nuanced songwriting of its career, which now spans well over a decade.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMSunday, July 28, 2013
Rogue Burlesque will be performing an unfiltered homage to our fixation with nerd culture, from “Weird Al” Yankovic and Superman to Edgar Allan Poe.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:02PMSaturday, July 27, 2013
The name of the band itself comes from a tune by the most “classical” of all jazz bands, the Modern Jazz Quartet.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:59PMCall it dueling futures. Because the battle for the soul of the science fiction and fantasy community is about nothing less, and even if we in the mystery community never considered the impa…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:05AMFriday, July 26, 2013
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that's coming up this week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:31PMThursday, July 25, 2013
"North Shore Fish" introduces, but then glosses over, the potent issues of working class women struggling to support their families in dead-end factory jobs while their fisherman husbands re…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:08PMThe Peterborough Players have put together a "Seagull" that floats elegantly on nineteenth-century Russian and twenty-first-century American wings, simultaneously bright and dark.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:26PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
With "Slow Focus," the duo steps away from the variety and lushness of their previous LPs in order to put together an alluringly bleak listening experience.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMMonday, July 22, 2013
But Mr. Ho’s Brian O’Neill had another idea. What if he took the very inauthenticity of the original music as a motive for putting together things that were never meant to go together o…
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