Anthony DeCurtis wants to do justice to his subjects’ extensive catalogue, but the book begins to feel less like exegesis and more like Lou Reed 101.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMThelma learns that she can’t escape who she is -- but she can control what she does.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:16PMUltimately, this production of Lost Girls might have gone deeper if it had been slowed down a bit.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:57AMSpeakEasy Stage Company's production of Shakespeare in Love comes off as lovely, temperate, and at least a little trite.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:37PMTo the end of his life, David Bowie was excited about creating innovative sounds and collaborating with new musicians.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:16PMDe Hamel's history is a detective story, a love story, and a revelation of the nourishment to be found in celebrated libraries and collections.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:51AMKNYUM is unlike anything else New England theatre currently has to offer -- in the best possible way.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:23PMPerformance has always included sex and physicality in its attractions. Koubi's work tries to move the spectators to a higher level.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:17PMWe Bostonians are a tough bunch and the Remains had a tough sound. That’s what Boston music should be remembered for.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:21PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:41AMHenry Rollins insists on defining himself strictly on his own terms.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:08PMWhen an opportunity to celebrate USCO’s pioneering work came along, I just had to curate it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:42PMI love the way Blame captures the kaleidoscopic emotional experience of being a teenage girl.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:13PMThree incisive visions of what's to come from largish groups of committed musicians.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AM"Everything about the Holocaust already seems so thoroughly unreal, as if it no longer belongs to the experience of our generation, but to mythology..."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AMSteven Spielberg’s political timing is nearly perfect, and so is his film.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24PMStanley Sagov never wants to play a piece the same way twice. He's always engaged in a "search for freshness."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMWhat has Black Mirror been good for, beyond entertainment, if not drawing our attention to escalating social and technological perils?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:00PMPerhaps the theatre of millennials will resemble Reality TV, resistant to suggestive metaphor and the rewards of complex narration.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:28AMWe have the obligation to look behind the music and the culture that glorified and perpetuated it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:10PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AMI miss the precocious, mischievous, darkly cunning, and troubled characters Gary Oldman once portrayed so beautifully.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:27AMA quartet of critics serve up the highlights in dance for 2017.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:36PMBy Timothy Francis Barry Another year of paging through new books, staring slack-jawed at the television with its now 400 channels (hoping for something to flicker into view that will engage…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMOur theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:18PMI can unequivocally say this is the most masterful and beautiful film of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:12PMManhattan Beach feels acutely relevant despite being set in the past.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:06PMBest Food Writing 2017 presents, as the series always has, a veritable buffet of pleasurable reading for the foodie.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMThe range of recordings issued this year was remarkable, both in terms of their instrumentation and their artistic inspiration.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMOur demanding critics choose the best (most disappointing) films of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:36PMThese institutions visually and physically reflected Portuguese art and culture.
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