One of Barry’s strongest attributes is its brand of dark, surreal, and unexpectedly witty satire.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:06PMConceptual and abstract as David Byrne can often be, he’s one art schooler who isn’t afraid to get down.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMWhat we don’t learn very much about is Elvis’ inner life, his motivations, and his deeper ambitions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:12AMGary Shandling’s life and art are both given the redeeming appreciation they deserve.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AMSorry to Bother You is a doozy -- vividly shot, morally vigorous, and consistently funny.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMBeing able to comfortably shift gears between “high” and “low” culture is one of the easiest ways in which a contemporary critic can gain the reader’s trust.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AMThe privilege Edith Wharton’s characters swim in has not disappeared. If anything, it’s expanded farther into the social stratosphere.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMRoberta Silman’s engaging and deeply felt novel is a reminder of what it means to carry a historical burden on both a personal and national level.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMEven after decades, The Damned is still grandly flying its freak flag.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMIn a culture that seems hell-bent on distracting us from painful realities, the intimacy of this production comes off as redemptive and inspiring.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMWe built this form of democracy and now we must stand up to what it’s become and say “I don’t consent to this.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMWild Wild Country details the insane clusterfuck that results when faith, fundamentalism, and media hype intersect.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:24PMSusan Sontag wrote short stories as a hobby; she saved more of her enormous intellectual energy for her novels and essays.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:49AMDel Toro creates a visually intriguing world, but the story’s premise is too farfetched to work.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMFor all his literary fecundity, Ezra Loomis Pound was also more than a little bonkers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:14PMIn his earliest memory, my grandfather is four years old. The year is 1919 and he stands on his tenement building in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he watches an army parade. Soldie…
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