1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
Nichita Stănescu is one of the poets who broke through the socialist-realism sound barrier and propelled Romanian poetry into new spheres.
No question that the culture of Mexico is suffused with memories of music, bright colors, and joy. Would that contemporary political realities reflected more closely the life-enhancing image…
Alice Oswald's "Memorial" begins with a list of 214 names, a bare, sorrowful cousin to the ship's roll. If you know the old stories, you'll begin to recognize some names, and then start to l…
Ray Charles had one of the great voices of the 20th century, and even the best singers have very large shoes to fill when paying tribute.
In order to pay tribute to the supreme Frits Lugt and his Fondation Custodia -- and to protest the announced closing of the Institut Néerlandais with which it is joined -- the column descri…
Musician Patty Schemel's slow climb to sobriety and wellness serves as the gripping backbone of the documentary "Hit So Hard," to the point that it is difficult to believe that someone thump…
Ralph Peterson is interested in furthering a complex, post-bop legacy. His music can be hard to count: it's also rip-roaring fun.
em>The well sung, classically staged Lyric Stage production of "The Mikado" supplies plenty of trip down memory lane satisfactions.
"Why has it taken so long for me to come back home? I don't know. I have been thinking about it for years and it just never quite seemed like the right time until now."
"Ruby Sparks" is more than a sweetly moving love story with a happy ending; to their credit, the filmmakers add some disturbingly nightmarish edges to its "Pygmalion" meets "Frankenstein" pl…
Fans of classical piano should find this collection of performancs by something of an institution around Boston a rare delight.
"Rounding Third" flounders most when it tries to get serious. Luckily, it doesn't try very hard, and delivers considerable amusement.
As legions of college students flood back into New England, there is plenty going on to help you forget the woes of being trapped behind an out-of-towner's U-Haul truck at an overpass on Sto…
If the poems in "That Said: New and Selected Poems" had been ordered differently, the volume would have made more of its virtues.
Composer John Williams has often stated that Tanglewood has been among his favorite places to visit -- and the feeling is mutual.
International noir novels no longer revolve around exotic police procedurals or gimmicky detective stories. They aim to pound readers into the pavement.
A mural painted on the side of a Big Dig ventilation structure in the Boston's Financial District has generated enormous controversy.
Actor Jack Koenig never flags in the Peterborough Players production of "Present Laughter," and around him in his London studio-flat swirls a churning world of impertinent employees and past…
Bassist Michael Feinberg has done many things right in his richly varied tribute to the great percussionist Elvin Jones.
Matt Bunsen and the Burners proves that comedic music can not only be funny, but also well-crafted and artful commentary.
Helen Constantine's new translation of Balzac's "The Wild Ass's Skin" serves this wonderful and weird book well. It is one of the great, black comic fables in world literature, a dazzlingly …
In the heartrending "Three Strong Women," award-winning novelist Marie NDiaye infuses her Senegalese women characters with a personal sense of dignity and a strong belief in self.
When the performance ended and I sat there, silent, reveling with the rest of the audience in the goose bumps that inevitably occur after such an experience, I knew, in my bones, that no mov…
"The Dream of the Celt" succeeds at educating its readers about the worlds in which Sir Roger Casement lived his successive lives, but not about his successive personalities.
Greg Hawkes and his trio are proof that in the right hands, with the right material, an evening of ukulele is a marvelous showcase for the pure beauty of great songwriting and the virtuosic …
