1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
Most museums today dream of coming up with striking public images. In that sense, the Portland Museum of Art's acquisition of SEVEN is a marketing coup.
"The name meant that we were going to present bands from all around the world, and that we wanted to 'overthrow' the pop establishment that had taken over radio."
M.C. Escher's extraordinary fantasy constructions are captivating visual environments whose frisky improbability beguile.
"If you're dead you won't have a movement, and guns kept people alive. In particular, kept people who made the movement alive."
Simon Fujiwara epitomizes the new model of a successful avant-garde artist in the world today.
Despite Philip's self-absorbed claptrap, young, successful women seem to be drawn to him. Go figure.
Despite some awkward staging decisions and the script tampering, there is plenty of lively drive in this production of Hedda Gabler.
Martin Amis's fiction, bleak though it often is, paradoxically remains compelling and pleasurable to read because of how well he writes about dreadful things.
Unorthodox teases the audience with the come-on that it will be a highly unusual documentary about religion and individual transformation, but it eventually becomes bogged down in less than …
Have we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?
Neuroplasticity is a bit more fleshed-out than its predecessor, but the album retains ample amounts of the slow to mid-tempo spookiness that Al Spx calls "doom soul."
A Disappearing Number combines mathematics and drama in ways that will enthrall some, overwhelm others, and puzzle the rest.
Filmmakers Ben and Gabe Turner also successfully place the story of Manchester United's rise in the larger context of what was happening in Great Britain at the time.
So how do four young guys successfully build upon two masterworks while simultaneously facing possible enervation due to record label woes and botched stateside promotion?
The Rocket is an absorbing, visually stunning film with a backstory not quickly forgotten.
Patrick Modiano's simple sentences pull one in; the nostalgia of loss and pain of youth and the hunt for a vague, romantic Other are easy to relate to.
Botso teaches children the joie de vivre of music and he is remarkably successful.
Andrew Barbato's play turns the Dormouse, the White Queen, and even the Red Queen ("Off with their heads!") into nurturing Montessori teachers, concerned with comforting and reassuring an up…
Cohen fans, rejoice - Popular Problems proves that the power and depth of his music haven't faded now that the man singing them is officially an octogenarian.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual arts, theater, author readings, and dance that's coming up in the next week.
Bruce Allen Murphy conveys the impression that Scalia knows how he feels on every issue before the briefs have been argued.
The biography is a remarkable read. It has all the hefty research you'd expect from a scholarly work, yet the story is told through prose fit for a great novel.
So much of what this novel has to say feels bracing and necessary. This is where a good part of America lives"dangling over a chasm.
The Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University reopened in September after a fifteen month hiatus to re-assess its inventory.
Some fifty-five objects trace a legacy of casual brutality and white hegemony that is at the heart of Yale University's"and this nation's"founding.
