Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Scott Robinson brings the spirit of pulp fiction, and a love of outer space, to the Newport Jazz Festival.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AMMonday, July 27, 2015
With invention that suggests the work of Malevich and Mondrian, the composition is a play of rectangles.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:09AMSaturday, July 25, 2015
None of these pedigrees guaranteed that The Old Ceremony's music would live up to the promise. After all, cool by association does not equal great on one’s own.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMFriday, July 24, 2015
Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding remains edgier than most American fare in this century.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMThursday, July 23, 2015
Party Girl has won a plethora of festival awards, including two at Cannes in 2014.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:50PMUrban pollution and acid rain have not dealt kindly with Boston City Hall's mostly concrete facade.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:51AMThe star of The Easy Way Out is its splendidly quick pacing, which gives it more of the feel of an American film than one would expect.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:39AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
But mechanical as Chic!'s story is, it is rare to have this kind of French fluff put across with so much charm and vivacity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:16PMZoë Anderson's volume aims to give readers a handy way to discern the most influential ballets from among the confusing proliferation that we find in today's repertory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:55AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
It is a conundrum for the critic: is the crudeness of the rendering the result of an expressionist style or a lack of finesse or skill in rendering?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMJohn Berberian, an Armenian-American master of the oud, is in our midst.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:27AMSunday, July 19, 2015
The show is unabashedly American in subject matter and form: Realism is as much an influence as Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and the other European –isms.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:38AMSaturday, July 18, 2015
Monchichi is about relationships but focused on this particular relationship, in which affection and intimacy and joy and sometimes frustration exist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:38PMthose who go for things legendarily Gallic, they are offering a real treat; two new films featuring the goddess Catherine Deneuve.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:51AMFriday, July 17, 2015
At a time when kids are being spoon-fed countless superhero movies and gothic fantasies, this film stands out because it resonates with the realities in their lives.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:09AMU2 kept their soapboxing excesses at bay and delivered an uplifting and effective mix of new material and bona-fide classics without losing focus on what they do best.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:04AMThursday, July 16, 2015
Derek Trucks of the Tedeschi Trucks Band brimmed with enthusiasm when he described how one show ended with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings horn players joining his own 11-piece ensemble..
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:53PMDirector Judd Apatow has done a great job translating Amy Schumer's humor and salty/sweet persona to the screen in Trainwreck.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Aging punk bands usually seem obliged to prove that their anger is still blazing. Since the Rezillos were never angry in the first place, they don't have that problem.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:22PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
The MIFF offered two new films starring Richard Gere in atypical roles for the prolific actor.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AMMonday, July 13, 2015
The cinematic contrast between America and Latin America was on tragic view at the Maine International Film Festival yesterday.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:55PMTired Moonlight has been generating a lot of buzz on the film festival circuit, and a classy salute to Hollywood actress Ann Sothern.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:39AMSunday, July 12, 2015
If you love classic musical comedy, this is a production you must see.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:15PMEisenstein in Guanajuato is another major achievement from the iconoclastic British director Peter Greenaway.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:22AMSaturday, July 11, 2015
In recent years several serious artists, Amanda Parer among them, have created giant inflatable pieces with the aim of making cultural/political statements.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:48PMFriday, July 10, 2015
Bruno Colson’s book is a wonder of research, and serves to shed light on the state of Napoleon’s mind.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMTuesday, July 7, 2015
In this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot’s early intellectual development.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02AMMonday, July 6, 2015
This troupe from North Carolina has managed to hit all the right prog-rock targets with music that has sweep, depth, and texture while avoiding pretension.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:43AMSunday, July 5, 2015
The protagonist's version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:56PMSaturday, July 4, 2015
Jacob's Pillow's revamped archive is a sort of museum as well as a library. A catalogue of the holdings is in the works and should be on line by the end of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AMFriday, July 3, 2015
The venerable Priscilla Beach Theatre was in danger of crumbling away -- but it has been fully restored and is swinging into a summertime season of musicals.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:20AM 
