6,222 stories from The Arts Fuse
An elegy to youth and the transgressions of reckless behaviors, Them celebrates sex as a wild and raw imperative.
Nels Cline 4 is a group that can cross musical and cultural boundaries with exhilarating ease.
Who knew that there were dozens of first-rate female American, Scandinavian, German, Swiss, French and Russian painters in Paris in the second half of the 19th century?
Thornton Wilder's Big Ideas do not get lost in the hurly-burly of this production.
Director Debra Granik's focus on young women whose lives have been steeped in nature and hardship, forced to lead their families forward despite scant resources, posits a refreshing feminine…
Why would anyone think a good-time rocker like "Fun, Fun, Fun" needed strings?
For the moment, it is refreshing to see how carefully the music is being recorded and packaged.
Lionel Loueke is a unique voice, who has managed to bring a number of influences together without weakening or undermining any of them.
The Closet is funny, brash, entertaining, and utterly forgettable.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Pianist Harold López-Nussa is his own bold and expressive rhythm section.
Hereditary has top notch acting, a gorgeous look, and some genuinely terrifying moments that linger.
This special exhibition is arguably the most insightful and compelling organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum.
On these two discs you'll find masterfully played, engaging excursions into the tonal beyond.
The Cake is a smart, stinging, and eerily timely comedy that feels timeless.
Some may think that the western-genre-turned-arthouse-gimmick has been played out, but Damsel's fresh energy and pioneering spirit offers redemption.
Ruby Rose Fox's artistic/political mission with Salt is clear: the singer wants to look back at and revamp the radicalism of the '60s.
It is heart-warming that, in these "worst of times," playwrights like Carey Crim are working quietly to give us a look at new beginnings with humor and tenderness and hope.
There are no missteps on this disc. Buster Williams and company make all the complications swing, mightily.
Being able to comfortably shift gears between "high" and "low" culture is one of the easiest ways in which a contemporary critic can gain the reader's trust.
So who knows where the time goes? Sadly, it only goes in one direction. But the past can be gracefully revived.
An organization dedicated to making Boston a vibrant, contemporary art city.
L. H. Brown has also written poetry, and she brings some of that lyrical know-how to her promising first novel.
A quartet of standout movies, the best of the just ended Provincetown Film Festival.
The privilege Edith Wharton's characters swim in has not disappeared. If anything, it's expanded farther into the social stratosphere.
