Sunday, July 29, 2012
August ushers in some Lo-fi indie here in New England. Sebadoh and HR from Bad Brains are the well-knowns, but homegrown musicians Dan Blakeslee and School for Robots show us that minimalist…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:30AMMonday, July 23, 2012
According to former WGBH Jazz DJ Steve Schwartz, “In retrospect, the writing was on the wall. About a year and a half ago, our shows were cut by an hour; before that, we were told we could…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:25PMSaturday, July 21, 2012
Patrick Barlow’s script and Chuck Morey’s direction of the Peterborough Players production turn "The 39 Steps" into a madcap, Marx-Brothers-style of zaniness barreling along at farce-spe…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:29AMFriday, July 20, 2012
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but in Boston this summer (and throughout the year) free concerts are as easy to find as upset fans at Fenway Park.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:05AMBy using water as a lens to explore Ansel Adams’s artistry, this exhibition makes his fascination with motion and time crystal clear.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:44AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Irving Berlin fans will be pleased to see such items as the complete Jerome Kern letter, (written in 1925!) in which Kern writes: “Irving Berlin has no place in American music. HE IS AMERI…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:06AMThursday, July 12, 2012
Reading "The Storytelling Animal" is akin to listening to a series of terrific humanities lectures given by a polymath professor with a P.T. Barnum streak.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:31PMWednesday, July 11, 2012
The issues raised by Mike Daisey’s infraction, his fall from grace, and now his return, are many, but chief among them is the privilege of illusion, the birth-right of the artist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:10PMPoet Mel Kenne, like a desert ascetic, has pared away everything that is not essential -— no words have been wasted in the making of this collection.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AMTuesday, July 10, 2012
Avi Avital, a young virtuoso determined to expand the repertoire, is the first mandolinist ever to be signed to a contract with Deutsche Grammophone. His recording of Bach for the label is a…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMSaturday, July 7, 2012
You leave the matrimonial musical "I Do! I Do!" humming its banalities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:57AMFriday, July 6, 2012
Norman Manea's compelling novel "The Lair" tracks the ambiguities, contradictions, and confusions of the exile’s psyche as he struggles to find footing in surroundings that are often unint…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AMTuesday, July 3, 2012
None of the Boston Dance Made to Order submissions dodged dance-on-camera cliches. There was a lot random dancing outdoors, body parts -- especially hands and feet -- shot in close-up, and r…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:37PMSaturday, June 30, 2012
Book product, much like food product, is manufactured –- from its very inception, designed to make money by shameless pandering to mainstream taste.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:27AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
You are hardly aware of the historical facts. Kate Grenville internalizes them so completely in her novel there is not a sentence that “stinks of history,” as a friend of mine once said …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMWith the first official heat wave behind us, summer is now in full swing and there is a ton happening musically in New England. This month local music shows off its diversity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:35AMMonday, June 25, 2012
British playwright Alan Ayckbourn does not build gag machines that spit out one-liners. He creates finely etched characters whose humor is rooted in their befuddled behavior and personalitie…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:58PMSunday, June 24, 2012
A critically acclaimed player in the New York avant-garde scene, Theo Bleckmann is clearly a Kate Bush connoisseur, and his commentary on her work was as compelling as the performances
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:38AMSaturday, June 23, 2012
Auld Lang Syne is the kind of poorly made play that withholds important and obvious elements of development in order to score artificial dramatic points late in the action.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:44AMFriday, June 22, 2012
WGBH is exploring an interesting issue -- how little can you invest in arts coverage and still have the chutzpah to ask for money from supporters who mistake crumbs for a loaf?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:27PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
At Land's Edge is a creepy and wonderful piece of art that will more than likely inspire a mind-altering live experience.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:37PMFriday, June 15, 2012
One feels when reading this anthology of Latin American poetry that editor Ilan Stavans tucks each poet he features into a folder, but that this categorization, while limiting, also encourag…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:22AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Audrey Ryan does not mince words when it comes to what she thinks of “hipster posers,” her generation of the “apathetic age,” armchair critics, and stalker fans. Ryan performs Saturd…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48AMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Imitation and musical thievery is pretty standard in the current world of mainstream music, but when The Machine took the stage last night at the Blue Ocean Music Hall in Salisbury, MA to pe…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:38PMWhen the musical whirlwind came to an end the crowd responded with a standing ovation, an enthusiastic testament to the power of this sweat-soaked night of edgy jazz guitar.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:59AMThursday, June 7, 2012
In The Life of an Unknown Man Andreï Makine creates a work of simple elegance that at its core explores the relationship of the past to the present, of truth to art, and of truth to life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:47AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
Given the flood of publications on early modern natural history over the last two decades, the detailed and strikingly illustrated Picturing the Book of Nature represents a herculean underta…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AMMonday, June 4, 2012
May 27th marked what would have been the one-hundredth anniversary of writer John Cheever’s birth. June 18th marks the thirtieth anniversary of his death.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMInto the Garden with Charles reads like a great love letter: beautifully written, full of feeling, a document of an intimate connection that never lost its wonder for the author.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:23AMSunday, June 3, 2012
If you have a taste for something different that also has some depth and heft, then guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson’s new album may be just what you’re looking for.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:03PMAn astonishing amount of thinking and creativity has shaped the Boston Choral Ensemble concert.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:16AM 
