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Fuse Theater Review: Double Edge Theatre’s “Shahrazad” — A Feast for Our Imaginations
Shahrazad is the latest in Double Edge’s summer spectacles, and with this piece, director and designer Stacy Klein has found the perfect balance between story and visuals.
Fuse Visual Arts Review: Jamie Wyeth at Boston’s MFA — Liberally Peppered with Shlock
Awe-striking passages of deft realism are easy to find throughout the show. Wholly satisfying paintings, resolved from edge to edge and full of convincing purpose, are not.
Fuse Film Review: “Code Black” – A Feel Good Documentary That is Difficult to Watch
At its core, Code Black is about the struggle faced by young physicians who want to remain idealistic in the face of our failing health care system.
Fuse Film Review: Scarlet Roots — Jean Renoir Inspires a Fritz Lang Film Noir
The stupendous Fritz Lang retrospective running over the course of this summer at Harvard Film Archive will soon screen two Lang remakes (in America) of films directed by Jean Renoir.
Fuse Music Review: The Yellowjackets — A Jazz Journey Across Decades and Styles
Jazz buffs know about the Yellowjackets. This is a Grammy-winning band that writes and performs complicated, intricate compositions that cross countless boundaries and thus make them difficult to pigeon-hole.
Fuse DVD/Blu-Ray Review: “A Hard Day’s Night” — Still Fun After Five Decades
A Hard Day’s Night stands as a landmark in rock history because it exemplifies the Beatles’s joyously innocent starting point — today it delivers an irresistible sonic joy that comes from listening to songs that still rock after fifty years.
Fuse CD Review: Shabazz Palaces’ “Lese Majesty” — Out-of-This-World Hip-Hop
Some listeners are undoubtedly going to dismiss Lese Majesty as a collection of vignettes or motifs, formless for all intents and purposes. That would be a shame.
Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
In Brief
- Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
- From the Editor’s Desk: Save the A.R.T.’s Tinker Bell — Clap Your Hands If You Believe in Cash
A major regional theater is turning itself into a launching pad for Broadway/Las Vegas blockbusters, with Hollywood pouring cash and advice into the pipeline. .
- Fuse Remembrance: Otto Piene, Pioneer Environmental Artist and Former Director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies
The late Otto Piene was a world-class artist. He created large scale and elegant environmental art pieces that seamlessly combined art, participation, and technology.
- Fuse Visual Arts Feature: Tadao Ando at the Clark — More than Meets the Eye in Williamstown
Tadao Ando’s new Clark, minimalist in its materials and understated presence, is more Zen than a billboard for its disparate architectural elements, more harmony than postmodern dissonance.
Music
Fuse Music Review: The Yellowjackets — A Jazz Journey Across Decades and Styles
Jazz buffs know about the Yellowjackets. This is a Grammy-winning band that writes and performs complicated, intricate compositions that cross countless boundaries and thus make them difficult to pigeon-hole.
Theater
Fuse Theater Review: Double Edge Theatre’s “Shahrazad” — A Feast for Our Imaginations
Shahrazad is the latest in Double Edge’s summer spectacles, and with this piece, director and designer Stacy Klein has found the perfect balance between story and visuals.
Film
Fuse Film Review: “Code Black” – A Feel Good Documentary That is Difficult to Watch
At its core, Code Black is about the struggle faced by young physicians who want to remain idealistic in the face of our failing health care system.
Literature
Fuse Book Review: An Evocative Biography of Zionist Agitator and Writer Vladmir Jabotinsky
There’s room to wonder if Vladmir Jabotinsky would have accepted Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu as his legitimate Zionist heirs.
Visual Arts
Fuse Visual Arts Review: Jamie Wyeth at Boston’s MFA — Liberally Peppered with Shlock
Awe-striking passages of deft realism are easy to find throughout the show. Wholly satisfying paintings, resolved from edge to edge and full of convincing purpose, are not.
Dance
Fuse Dance Feature: Wonder X 2
In red gloves and dark glasses, popping and locking, the Wondertwins are both imposing humans and robotic objects, organic and mechanical reproduction.
Television
Television Review: “Louie” at Season Four — Art House TV
Louie is a difficult show to advertise because it is the only example of art-television at the moment.
Food
Fuse Food Review: At Sam LaGrassa’s — Corned Beef, The Essence of Jewish Goodness
The best corned beef in the Boston area by far is, get this, at an Italian lunch joint in Downtown Crossing, Sam LaGrassa’s.
Video Games
Fuse Video Game Commentary: The Ideology of “Angry Birds” — Back to “Animal Farm”
The mega-popular video game Angry Birds is nothing if not hypocritical. A story of political and moral resistance is packaged to fill corporate coffers.
Judicial Review
REVISED: Judicial Review #11: “The Great Gatsby” — A Great Opera?
This Judicial Review deals with the Boston premiere of John Harbison’s opera version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Read the reactions and join the conversation.
Commentary
Precision and obvious competence were only part of the story. What made this concert from The Young Artists Orchestra so special was the joy conveyed by these fledgling musicians.
Interview
Fuse Music Feature: At the Lowell Folk Festival — “Da Butt” is no joke for EU
Sugar Bear and his legendary go-go band are coming to the Lowell Folk Festival.
Preview
Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
Review
Fuse Theater Review: Double Edge Theatre’s “Shahrazad” — A Feast for Our Imaginations
Shahrazad is the latest in Double Edge’s summer spectacles, and with this piece, director and designer Stacy Klein has found the perfect balance between story and visuals.
2014 Summer Fundraiser
Fuse Fundraiser: July 2013-July 2014 — The Year That Was For The Arts Fuse
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