1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
Bravura performances are provided by all involved, making Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" quite possibly the best film of the year.
Without its many steamy lesbian sex interludes tarting up what could otherwise be classified as a routine narrative, would "Blue is the Warmest Color" have garnered so many rave reviews and …
Martin Scorsese is a tireless champion of this kind of restoration; the World Cinema Project is committed to doing the indispensable work needed to save examples of unknown but worthy landma…
After 2010's too spare "Three Stations," fans old and new will find Martin Cruz Smith back in full form with "Titiana," creating a taut, subtle, often darkly funny and even moving tale.
The documentary "The Punk Singer" is a welcome, informative portrait of riot grrrl icon Kathleen Hanna, the former lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.
At this time of year, a bit of silliness can be expected and even appreciated. The Fools doing a metal song about holiday-shopping stress? Of course.
Molecular gastronomy, the application of scientific principles to the understanding of domestic and gastronomic food principles is shaking up the food world harder than Shake 'n Bake.
There was a moment when I turned around and thought, 'I am definitely in a Coen brothers movie. This is crazy.'
Though disguised in holiday trappings, 1947's "The Bishop's Wife" is about human frailty, thwarted ambition, and the humble rewards that accompany doing the right thing.
Arts Fuse Critics pick the best in music albums this year. Feel free to agree, disagree, and add your own favorites.
The Winthrop Street building that houses Upstairs on the Square is getting a new owner who has plans for a different kind of restaurant. So Upstairs proprietors Deborah Hughes and Mary-Cathe…
Artist Richard Thomas Scott is currently working on his new Kickstarter project, "30 Paintings in 30 Days." Sponsors pitch him inspirations ("Challenge me to paint something I've never done …
Would it be all that nervy to ask if, in the coming years, there might be more, not less, musical experimentation? Couldn't the Boston Pops commission a new seasonal work and showcase it?
Wondering about what to give the arts and culture lover on your gift list? No problem"the sage writers for The Arts Fuse (with an assist from our readers) come to the rescue with thoughtful …
As the individual who quite possibly had the best seats in the house for the monumental legal battle that unfolded over the course of a few weeks in the summer of 1971, James Goodale provers…
It was intimidating to go into a situation with a director (Alexander Payne) that you love so much and an actor (Bruce Dern) who has done so much and worked with so many amazing people.
What makes Childsplay unique and inspiring is its back story. Every one of the fiddles played on stage was made by Bob Childs, a Cambridge-based luthier who has been making exceptional instr…
A collection of poems and essays, edited and translated by the award-winning poet Michael Hofmann, by the admired German poet Gottfried Benn, who, because of his brief association with Nazis…
Art Spiegelman believes that "MAD" magazine was more subversive for his generation of protesters than either marijuana or LSD. It certainly radicalized him.
Hopefully, Death Grips can keep finding new ways to convey contemporary dissonance, because as it stands now they have produced four of the most important musical works of the 21st Century.
Capleton's cancellation at Boston's Hibernian Hall shows that reggae stars can't easily escape their anti-gay discographies.
Dudley Square's Hibernian Hall has canceled a concert slated for Friday night by a reggae star with a past history of virulently anti-gay lyrics.
A pithy critical consideration of new releases from Flaming Lips, The Frights, Mind Spiders, Radioactivity, Ólöf Arnalds, Lee Bannon, Armand Hammer, and Haunted Horses.
This remains a vision of a dystopian universe, but in the hands of these performers "Waiting for Godot"'s angst exudes as much antic warmth as it does cold angst.
In a way, this collection of hip writing, a "literary mixtape," is the ultimate embodiment of the vision of the Hipster-as-Curator.
