1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
In recent years several serious artists, Amanda Parer among them, have created giant inflatable pieces with the aim of making cultural/political statements.
Bruno Colson's book is a wonder of research, and serves to shed light on the state of Napoleon's mind.
In this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot's early intellectual development.
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.
The protagonist's version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.
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.
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.
So there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, "Lonely Woman."
In many ways, Alan Ayckbourn in Intimate Exchanges has concocted the perfect recipe for a company like the Peterborough Players.
"Ballet is only good when it is great," the legendarily unblinking dance critic Arlene Croce once wrote; whenever I bring that judgement to mind it makes me both swallow hard and sigh softly.
Pam Tanowitz's performance seemed to be as much about the connections among artists and their ideas as about the unanticipated gaps between them.
The Theodore Baird House is a special place; the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure in Massachusetts.
Looked at on his own terms Thomas Hart Benton is an American Master and deserves to be reconsidered.
In A Swedish Love Story, Roy Andersson muses on the meaning of life, but for the first and last time he expresses his sense of life's absurdity through an accessible plot line.
Cinderella isn't a lavish spectacle à la the Met, but rather, like its heroine, modest on the surface while pulsing with a generous heart underneath; it is gently silly here and sincerely…
One thing I've learned in years of being a Rush fan: Nobody ever changes their mind on this band.
A mixed evaluation of the contributions of two New England artists -- Joan Jonas and Mark Dion -- at this year's Venice Biennale.
Tomorrow, Misty Copeland will be American Ballet Theatre's first African-American ballerina to perform the lead role in Swan Lake in New York City.
He came up with one of those transcendent Richard Thompson moments, one to match anything I've seen onstage this year.
The best of Kageyama KÅyÅ's photography contains a nuanced dramatic power that is both aesthetic and political.
M.I.T.'s Sean Collier Memorial does not make a full-bodied artistic statement -- it does not elicit a strongly felt aesthetic or visceral reaction.
Rose Marasco's strong sensibility is always at work, searching for contrasts to capture in her photos.
With most of his contemporaries doing reunion tours or playing decades-old albums, Paul Weller is one of the few claiming his right to be a still-evolving artist.
Scripts of this well-intentioned variety are big on exalting forgiveness and empathy " calls for justice are rare for obvious reasons.
