Fiber takes on two key aesthetic ideas -- gravity and the grid -- and one major sociological one, the way fiber arts were created and exhibited as part of a larger feminist agenda.
Director David Fincher does a good job at making our skin crawl while we chuckle at the audacity of the goings-ons in Gone Girl.
The excellent E-Team documents a remarkable effort to investigate the abuse of human rights, an endeavor that, for the most part, goes unheralded in our mainstream media.
Each John Oliver monologue takes an different weighty and urgent political issue ( and deconstructs it with wit, clarity and moral purpose.
Otto Dov Kulka's exploration of the time he spent in Auschwitz as a child won the 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize, one of the judges calling it "the greatest book on Auschwitz since Prim…
This was a band that took its reunion as a personal challenge to come off as reckless as they did in their prime.
A People's History of the New Boston takes the "grassroots" view and tries to give overdue credit to the role that community activists and neighborhood residents played in building the "New …
Though acknowledged as one of the half-dozen or so key figures in Latin American modern art, Wilfredo Lam's status in the modernist canon is unclear.
In The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesqu…
Never mind all the timeless melodies Glenn Tilbrook's written: Anyone who can rhyme the name Persephone with "incessantly" deserves immortality for that alone.
In F, vertigo is often palpable. Evil exists. "The terrifying beauty of things" does, too.
Mayor Walsh Announces Cabinet Level Chief of Arts and Culture. Important step in ongoing elevation of arts in Boston, Appointee led Chicago's cultural planning process.
The most striking part of The Better Angels is its cinematography. The naked branches on the thick, gray trees are silhouetted against a sky that seems unable to hold sunlight.
In the musical Far From Heaven, the pleasure of Cathy's first-act dream overwhelms the anguish of her second-act awakening.
With Color Crossing, Kate Gilbert wanted to showcase "the collision between sights and sounds that make Downtown Crossing so vibrant."
Masters of Doom: the band Earth forges a classic in an aged, durable style of heavy metal.
Two new documentaries: one a love story about two athletes, the other an attempt to chronicle a small resistance movement among German students against the Nazis.
At its deepest level, Emilie invokes the quest we all undertake to make sense of who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual art, theater, author readings, and dance that's coming up in the next week.
As expected, Expedition to the End of the World is visually stunning. The problem is that we needed to see more of the world and hear less yakking from the humans who inhabit it.
The evening was not just a pleasurable throwback to '80s digital reggae riddims, but drew on the misogyny and homophobia that dominated reggae during that era.
If you've still got your collegiate cynicism, Steely Dan is still the perfect band to feed it.
Although the production of The Last Days of Cleopatra is at times a bit hard to follow, patient audience members will be rewarded by a profound dramatic payoff.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, and dance that's coming up in the next week.
The Lawn on D is a breath of fresh cultural air in Boston.