"Pentalum" is an example of soft, temporal architecture: its geometric sculptural forms push against the boundaries of an interactive environmental art installation.
Actor Russell Crowe's directorial debut is visually gripping and very well acted -- but its ending is disappointingly hokey.
Paul Dano invests the younger Brian Wilson with focused ecstasy, especially during his creation of the landmark album, Pet Sounds.
The sound was often so inviting that it seemed Wire were easing comfortably into middle age.
What if Alfred Hitchcock had sat out behind his Holmby Hills bungalow, smoking clove cigarettes and writing chick-lit novels?
Aloha comes across as Cameron Crowe's baffling artistic suicide note to his adoring public.
Despite the neglect from the local media, The Boston blues scene is strong.
Iris Apfel a witty New York fashion icon, now in her nineties, is living her career to the fullest.
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.
Marah Strauch's documentary tries to fathom Carl Boenish's motive for taking his last leap.
People bonded with the product Mad Men was selling, but what were they falling for?
Patrick Dougherty's Stickwork is a remarkable piece of public art.
The performers must be so deeply invested in what they are doing that we are caught up in the narrative as its cobwebs are brushed away.
"Yes, America might have been a nation of Christians, but that was different from being formally a Christian nation."
Anne Meara left a deep impression on all she came into contact with.
Jamie Kirsch describes Les Noces as "a non-stop, energetic, tour-de-force ride that lasts 25 minutes without a break and leaves you breathless by the end."
There is no doubt about the creativity in this mix of short films. But are they all suitable fare for eight-year-olds?
Though they took enough acid to qualify as a psychedelic band, the Blues Magoos always had a foot in the garage.
Courtney Barnett is a scrappy rocker with a hot band, a convincing stage presence, and a bunch of first-class songs. .
I Refuse is one of those novels that only truly comes clear on a second reading, when certain initially apparently innocuous, easily passed-over sentences reverberate with revealed meaning.
Contemporary dance has no useful definition; maybe we could think of it as an attitude, a constantly changing venture.
How much longer can these seventy-somethings climb those stairs?
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, and author events for the coming week.
Two 20th century gems bracketed the evening, and all four works showed how the ballet idiom can serve and be served by classical music.
The collaboration with the mortally ill Ed Pincus, Lucia Small explains, came about from a mutual desire to experiment with documentary form.