Featured Articles
Fuse Remembrance: Peter Matthiessen – The Last Frontiersman
The late writer Peter Matthiessen was one of the last great frontiersmen, one of the last great travelers taking voyages of discovery.
Fuse Movie Review: “The Galapagos Affair” — An Edenic Experiment Gone Wrong
It would take a series of spoilers to explain who might have killed whom in “The Galapagos Affair.” See the movie and find out, and revel in the grim gallows humor.
Fuse Poetry Review: “Book of Hours” — From Mourning to Celebration
Kevin Young’s poetic line is generally on the concise side, generating a pithy, earthy, evocative quality that hovers somewhere between the haiku-like jazziness of Robert Creeley and the delta blues of Son House or Skip James.
Conductor Charles Dutoit seems to have little affinity for Mahler’s distinctive style. The quintessential Mahlerian traits – the grotesque, the naïve, the terrifying, the ironic – all sounded pretty much the same.
Fuse Concert Review: Winsor Music Chamber Series at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Praise is due Peggy Pearson and Winsor Music for providing a forum for the talented young composer Lev Mamuya.
Fuse Film Reviews: Flesh and Fantasy in the Art House
Two new films take a poetic and fantastical look at the artifice of sensual surfaces to imagine the horrific realities beneath.
Fuse Concert Review: The Discovery Ensemble at Jordan Hall — A Group That is Growing Strong and Fast
The Discovery Ensemble’s precision was also on full display in the vigorous contrapuntal writing that came across with impressive, electrifying energy and visceral punchiness.
Fuse Theater Review: “Becoming Cuba” — A Sugary Historical Melodrama
Dramatist Melinda Lopez’s “Becoming Cuba” holds your attention even after you see just where it is going and why.
In Brief
- Fuse Remembrance: Peter Matthiessen – The Last Frontiersman
The late writer Peter Matthiessen was one of the last great frontiersmen, one of the last great travelers taking voyages of discovery.
- Fuse News: Venice Biennale Honors MIT List Visual Art Center and Artist Joan Jonas
For both artist and curators, this is one of the great honors of the American art world.
- Fuse News: Time Capsules — British Pathe Newsreels Online
British Pathe’s 85,000 (some sites say 90,000, but who’s counting?) newsreels are now online.
- 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.
Music
Conductor Charles Dutoit seems to have little affinity for Mahler’s distinctive style. The quintessential Mahlerian traits – the grotesque, the naïve, the terrifying, the ironic – all sounded pretty much the same.
Theater
Fuse Theater Review: “Becoming Cuba” — A Sugary Historical Melodrama
Dramatist Melinda Lopez’s “Becoming Cuba” holds your attention even after you see just where it is going and why.
Film
Fuse Movie Review: “The Galapagos Affair” — An Edenic Experiment Gone Wrong
It would take a series of spoilers to explain who might have killed whom in “The Galapagos Affair.” See the movie and find out, and revel in the grim gallows humor.
Literature
Fuse Remembrance: Peter Matthiessen – The Last Frontiersman
The late writer Peter Matthiessen was one of the last great frontiersmen, one of the last great travelers taking voyages of discovery.
Visual Arts
Fuse Visual Arts Review: “Quilts and Color” — Far From Folk and Perhaps Beyond Art
Far from being the cool, detached, and cerebral creations of the color field artists, these quilts, imagined in their intended context, are deeply personal, sensuous, and alive.
Dance
Fuse Dance Review: “The Shape She Makes” — A Complex, Eloquent Hybrid of Dance and Theater
“The Shape She Makes” proffers an eloquent fusion of language and movement that pushes the boundaries of dance and theater without embracing the opaqueness that marks so many experimental productions.
Television
Fuse TV Review: “Fargo”: or, Do Contract Killers Get Bored and Create Chaos for Fun?
“Fargo” creates its own world of crime and moral conundrums while delivering a fair share of blood. Whether the TV series delivers on its promise to be in the same aesthetic world as the original movie is an open question.
Food
Fuse Food Commentary: The Fauvists of Cuisine — Test Tube or Taste Test?
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.
Video Games
Arts Fuse Year-End Fundraiser: Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More
Please send tax deductible dollars to “The Arts Fuse” so the magazine can continue to serve its mission — we need funds to pay our writers, to continue to grow our readership, and to raise our visibility around the region.
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
Fuse Review: Cyberarts’s Art on the Marquee — Digital Game Shorts for Now People
Whether art can comfortably exist in this thoroughly commercial frame is a question for the ages. Let’s say that whether this show succeeds is firmly in the eye of the beholder.
Interview
Fuse Music Interview: The “Grease” guy –The Bo-Keys and John Nemeth bring the Memphis Sound to Town
Scott Bomar’s multi-generational band The Bo-Keys has almost single-handedly kept the soul tradition of the Stax and Hi labels alive.
Preview
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 Movie Review: “The Galapagos Affair” — An Edenic Experiment Gone Wrong
It would take a series of spoilers to explain who might have killed whom in “The Galapagos Affair.” See the movie and find out, and revel in the grim gallows humor.
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