Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Latest in Visual Arts
Visual Arts Review: Ledelle Moe’s “When” — Figures Worthy of Awe
Ledelle Moe’s work is fresh, innovative, and contemporary — yet deeply rooted in a primal humanism that courses through the millennia of every continent and culture.
Latest in Music
Music Review: Providence Art-Pop Trio Arc Iris stretches its wings in “iTMRW”
After three albums that fell short of wide acclaim, perhaps it was only a matter of time for Arc Iris to think big.
Latest in Dance
Dance Review: Boston Dance Theater — Going Berserk
The Boston Dance Theater’s talented group of dancers spent much of the performance nervously twitching and swaying.
Latest in Television
Watch Closely: The Latest “Dracula” is Bold and Bloody
This BBC/Netflix production is an audacious rekindling of the undying appeal of literature’s most famous vampire.
Latest in Books
Book Review: Miranda Popkey’s “Topics of Conversation” — A Bemused Candor
What you will be impressed by is the strength of the interior thinking, the detailing of the voices sorting out their confusion.
Latest in Theater
Theater Review: “Maytag Virgin” — Love Blossoms, Memorably
Maytag Virgin accomplishes what it sets out to do and then some: it is a compelling two-hander about grief and romance that explores how the two emotions can intermingle.
Latest in Film
Film Review: “What Did Jack Do? — David Lynch’s Amusing Monkeyshine
After rewatching What Did Jack Do? a few times, I still don’t really know what the hell I saw. But I decided that I don’t care, because I kept laughing my ass off anyway.
Latest in Food
Book Feature: Joan Nathan — Sitting at “King Solomon’s Table”
There are 170 recipes in King Solomon’s Table . Joan Nathan, a sort of culinary archeologist, tracks down the details of their origins to Biblical times.
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Short Arts Fuse Podcast #24 — Hopes & Gripes, The 2020 Grammys
One of the Art Fuse‘s music reviewers, Deanna Costa has a lot to say about this year’s Grammys awards.
Film Review: “Color Out of Space” — Trippy, Witchy, Uneven, Hilarious
To move from a bucolic beginning to a surreal, chaotic climax, and then to an elegiac epilogue — that, in my book, is the sign of a well-crafted horror film.
Post-Rock CD Review: Caspian’s “On Circles” — Short Films for the Inner Eye
With this album, post-rock sextet Caspian pulls off the tricky maneuver of infusing blood and emotions into carefully assembled and deliberately delivered songs.
Classical CD Reviews: “Escales,” “Jeux de Miroirs,” and Liszt Symphonic Works
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London are one of the new decade’s most exciting partnerships; Javier Perianes’ album with the Orchestre de Paris is quite clever; Is Liszt’s music trash? The debate continues.
Theater Review: “Timon of Athens” — Greed is not Good
Timon is a fascinating, if lumpy and bumpy, black comedy with a nihilistic sting, a lacerating parable about how the worship of gold warps individuals and society.