Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Technology is becoming a tool for artists to mastermind aesthetic and social interventions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMSunday, November 6, 2016
Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:36PMGiraldi was enticed by the fraternity of the gym as a way of filling out and firming up both his body and his sense of self.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Mark St. Germain's drama is not about Cold War politics, but the question of whether a great man is (or need be) a good man.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:31PMYou're not supposed to look for deep meaning in this often-revised jumbo of a ballet.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMThe musical is a relentless, one hour and fifty minute excursion into the history of racial bias in America, from the cotton fields to the Civil Rights movement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMSunday, October 30, 2016
Kelly Reichardt’s cinema gives us slow, rich portraits of life’s daily rhythms, its frustrations and unresolved conflicts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMAt 82, Cohen seems to feel that there isn't a lot of time left and that he has nothing to prove to anyone.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMThursday, October 27, 2016
How refreshing it is to see a female protagonist whose strength of will and character are not of the superhuman variety.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Mark Greif’s analyses can be sharply counter-intuitive, but once we absorb the meaning of his criticism there’s less to go forward with than we expect.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:28AMMonday, October 24, 2016
Ballet steps from the classroom were sprinkled in with modern dance, moonwalking, shimmies, groping duets, and any other kind of movement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:57PMSunday, October 23, 2016
Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:07PMBrand X was essentially a bunch of top-flight session men who got together to blow off steam, a UK version of Weather Report.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:50AMFriday, October 21, 2016
It’s the wild mind of puppeteer Paul Zaloom that’s really on display here.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:14AMDespite an appearance by Satan, this is not all that frightening a yarn for Halloween, but the MRT's production is absorbing nonetheless.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:14AMThursday, October 20, 2016
Sarah Ruhl attempts, but fails, to discover illuminating similarities between the powerful then and now.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:03PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
The Murder of Sonny Liston is an absorbing, albeit speculative, attempt at addressing the mystery that died with the man.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12PMCritic Douglas Crimp's autobiography provides an absorbing, microcosmic look into the early days of the 1970s New York art scene.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMMonday, October 17, 2016
This is a theater of signals, like a fast-changing slide show of things we recognize and don't quite recognize.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:20PM"Tokenism also plays into this issue. Some companies are hiring one dancer of color and they think they’ve done diversity."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMSunday, October 16, 2016
A Man Called Ove's darkness and humor are balanced artfully, a merit one often sees in Scandinavian film.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:21PMSaturday, October 15, 2016
The New Rep production is polished, surprising, and certainly hard-hitting, right up to the last moment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48PMTuesday, October 11, 2016
As confessions of rock decadence go, Lol Tolhust’s are fairly tame stuff.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:21AMMonday, October 10, 2016
Man in Snow encourages us to reflect on our own bit of mortality. We don’t probably take the time to do that enough.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:37PMSunday, October 9, 2016
Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:22PMFriday, October 7, 2016
The variety of this exhibition amply proves that William Merritt Chase brought great painterly insight to much more than just the daily catch.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AMSteven Hyden doesn’t really pick a side in these fights; he’s broad minded enough to know and enjoy every artist’s work.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AMThursday, October 6, 2016
In The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride seems to be determined to combat the soullessness of pornography.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:28PMTuesday, October 4, 2016
This company of highly talented collaborators asks: “What is it about our collective psyche that fastens on so tightly to guns?”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:31AMSaturday, October 1, 2016
Something clicked when I visited the MFA’s diminutive but brilliant new exhibition of Terry Winters’ works on paper.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:46PMFriday, September 30, 2016
Dissolution is a mysterious, and constant, element in Diana Al-Hadid's vision.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:21PM 
