Sunday, July 17, 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 07:32PMFriday, July 15, 2016
The set proved that Bob Dylan remains, among many other things, one of music’s great contrarians.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:43PMWhat is so wonderfully intriguing about "The Connoisseur" is wondering how Rockwell did it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:34PMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Alex Gibney's powerful documentary looks closely at some recent examples of malware designed to wreak havoc worldwide.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:10AMTuesday, July 12, 2016
Our Kind of Traitor provides plenty of agreeably tense entertainment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AMFriday, July 8, 2016
As a group they are exuberant, personable, immediate, which in turn makes even the meh choreography palatable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:58PMOn his debut solo record, Eric Krasno moves to the forefront in a way that we haven’t seen during his 20 years of being one of the dudes in the band .
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:45AMWednesday, July 6, 2016
Swiss Army Man is much more than your standard absurd adolescent comedy or a campy send-up of the genre.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:20AMTuesday, July 5, 2016
Beyond a few superb works, the panorama of flesh proves to be oddly enervating.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:39AMMonday, July 4, 2016
Unfortunately for Genius, film is a visual medium, not a talking heads snore fest.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:32PMSunday, July 3, 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 11:31AMSaturday, July 2, 2016
Soon-Ho Park’s dancers are young and seem imbued with the casual cosmopolitanism of their peers, but they reflect a deep seriousness and facility in their craft.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:52AMFriday, July 1, 2016
In time, Wiener-Dog may be the film that defines Todd Solondz as a filmmaker. Wiener-Dog, directed by Todd Solondz. Screening at the Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA. Arts Fuse interview…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:31PMTuesday, June 28, 2016
One of the ironies inf American Rhapsody is that most of the artists Pierpont takes up didn’t find life in America to be rhapsodic at all.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:40AMMonday, June 27, 2016
There is plenty of comedy in this horror film: think A Midsummer Night’s Dream meets I Love Lucy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:49AMSunday, June 26, 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 12:04PMFriday, June 24, 2016
I can’t quite believe I’m cautioning viewers about the troubling nature of a documentary about tickling.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:57PM“It was an amazing event and it was a blow to lose it. Free outdoor events that give people access to the arts are a rarity,” By Noah Schaffer The Summer Arts Weekend is no more.…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:38AMThursday, June 23, 2016
Patrick Gabridge’s political satire presents some intriguing sci-fi-like concepts, but the play falls into too many narrative potholes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:36PMThere is nothing quite so exhilarating as watching Shakespeare done right - except, perhaps, watching one of his plays done right, twice.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:01AMWednesday, June 22, 2016
The wellsprings of Quilt's sound are diverse – psychedelics, dream pop, Beach ‘n’ Beatle harmony groups, folk-rock and, I swear, punkoid racket at times.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:31AMTuesday, June 21, 2016
The coincidence of two Firebirds in one weekend suggested a Compare-and-Contrast exercise.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:39PMSunday, June 19, 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 04:04PMSaturday, June 18, 2016
Lobster Girl presents us with an idyllic vision of Cape Ann, Massachusetts: blue and pink skies, shining water, a picturesque seagull.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMCount among Tom Petty’s many talents the ability to trade his superstar role for that of being just another member of the band.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:13AMFriday, June 17, 2016
If you really want a full-on immersion into the halcyon decade that that gave us the Beatles and free love, you simply must watch Aquarius.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:01PMThe premise of this intriguing exhibition of African and African American Art is that the revolution will not be televised, nor is it over.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:49PMIn the hands of Rodin, the human form was shaped to tell an emotionally and psychologically complex story.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:25AMThursday, June 16, 2016
Alan Furst's books are spy thrillers infused with a crisp, rather than a flowery, literary sensibility.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMMonday, June 13, 2016
With its new album, Revival, Gozu finally lets loose its own demonic roar.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:25PMThe Bangs are masters in sending up the gelatinous sentimentality of popular culture, embracing it at the same time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AM 
