Friday, April 24, 2015
Sometime you go in search of one thing, and you stumble upon something else. And maybe that newly discovered thing is something wonderful.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AMWednesday, April 22, 2015
True Story relies far too heavily on answering the formulaic question 'Did he do it?'
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMFor these artists, African origin is the foundation that should guide the development of Cuba’s national personality and consciousness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:05AMFriday, April 17, 2015
Roger Grenier wears his considerable learning lightly. His writing is a graceful dance of the intellect.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:04PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
RUBBERBANDance shares some elements of the new-circus genre: a set of very specialized and spectacular physical skills, and the idea that although circusy movement can bombard the audience w…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:38PMIn an architectural sense, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute is too quiet a visual statement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:51AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
The strong connections between Andy Warhol's early drawings and his later Pop-pieces become clear as you walk through the exhibition.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:49AMMonday, April 13, 2015
The events Colin Barrett renders in Young Skins have the texture of life, albeit the darker side, in that they puzzle and disturb and linger painfully.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:11AMSunday, April 12, 2015
Woman in Gold has novelty going for it -- it is a film that depicts a woman's passionate relationship to a piece of art.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:34PMFeaturing seven short dances by stellar choreographers of contemporary dance, the Harvard Dance Center's spring program promised some rare enlightenment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:47PMFriday, April 10, 2015
Two current productions make vivid cases for the strength of Canadian theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:38PMThose who want to experience the brilliance of Bertolt Brecht at its mellowest should head down to Yale Rep's lively and moving production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:10PMMonday, April 6, 2015
For all the attention it receives and the level of cultural relevance it assumes House of Cards ought to be a much better series than its aggressive promotion makes it out to be.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:11AMFriday, April 3, 2015
"It takes a special choreographer to make audiences laugh, reflect, and empathize.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:35AMNo disputing it – right now, Vijay Iyer is The Man on jazz piano.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:57AMThursday, April 2, 2015
Moses(es) has many layers of metaphor and suggestion, but the surface is always visually intriguing, musically imaginative
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:20AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
The pop magic that Belle and Sebastian excels at struggles to survive on the band's new album because its dance-heavy vibe plays against their strengths.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
A trio of new novels suggest that bad as it gets may not be as bad as it can get.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMMonday, March 30, 2015
There was more than one reference to Alvin Ailey himself in Odetta, recalling Ailey's frequent use of a female protagonist and his choices of other noted black artists as inspiration.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:14AMSunday, March 29, 2015
Boston was first introduced to ensemble taiko in 1975, when members of the Japanese group Kodō crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon and moments later performed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AMFriday, March 27, 2015
The Golden Dragon Acrobats' Cirque Zíva is part dance, part acrobatics, and 100 percent spectacle.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:27AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
Each piece is so different from the others in Shades of Sound that the evening provides something for everyone, giving the company a chance to showcase its phenomenal technique.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02AMMonday, March 23, 2015
Winter Sleep is not the cinematic masterpiece so many have been hailing it to be.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:44PMWednesday, March 18, 2015
If these efforts are representative of Icelandic cinema, it is time for movie lovers to start paying much closer attention.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:32PM"The kids in Boston accepted us unconditionally, and we hung out with everyone out there—Barrence Whitfield, the Bristols, the Del Fuegos."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:05PM"Working on The Way We Live Now was a natural process of learning about modernist architecture and the dominating visions of figures such as Le Corbusier, Mies, and Adolf Loos."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Yazmina Reza’s dollhouse of a novel is a miniaturist’s miracle.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:39PMMonday, March 16, 2015
Rejecting unadorned box-like designs, Michael Graves created with patterns, textures, decorations and color in ways large and small.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:43PMOne leaves History of Fear feeling that the director wants to stir up our anxiety about the omnipresence of fear itself.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:23AMSunday, March 15, 2015
Without being at all didactic, Michelle Dorrance reveres tap history by adapting traditional ideas, then resolving them unexpectedly.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:45PMArts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
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