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: “Toulouse Lautrec and the Stars of Paris”
This crowd-pleaser of an exhibition, dedicated to an accessible, beloved artist, is a gift to the citizens of Boston and Everett, as well as to the general public.
Latest in Music
Jazz CD Review: The Art Ensemble of Chicago — Still Out on the Edge
Amid the continual flood of new jazz releases, this anniversary bash is one to be savored.
Latest in Dance
Book Review: Dancer Ray Bolger — America’s Animated Cubist
Via Ray Bolger’s trajectory we traverse the boards of Broadway and the silver screen of Hollywood — as well as the smaller, but equally thrilling, milieux of nightclubs and television studios.
Latest in Television
Television Review: “Crashing” — The Power of Being Earnest
Crashing shows us how Holmes’s innate sweetness and affability carries him through the awkwardness and indignities of being a working comedian.
Latest in Books
Book Review: “The Ruins of Ani” — Into the Mystic
The Ruins of Ani illuminates one of those rare places that leaves visitors feeling they might have to dust off the word mystical to describe the experience.
Latest in Theater
Theater Interview: Playwright Paula Vogel on “Indecent” and a Love of Yiddish
“Yiddish is above all a language of yearning, a language of anxiety.”
Latest in Film
Film Interview: “Ira Gitler Lives” — From Bret Primack, Jazz Documentarian Extraordinaire
“The half-hearted support of jazz by American broadcast TV, be it commercial or PBS or cable, has been an insult not only to the artists, but to the public as well.”
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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Film Preview: Independently Ours — IFFBoston Celebrates Another Year of Community
As always, IFFBoston’s Executive Director Brian Tamm and Program Director Nancy Campbell have curated a stellar lineup of films that promises to represent the very best of current American and international cinema.
Concert Music Review: Violinist Itzhak Perlman and Pianist Evgeny Kissin — An Odd Dream Team
A bit surprising — that two megastars choose such meat and potatoes repertoire.
Arts Fuse Podcast #14: Dialectics of Politicized Art, or the Intellectual History of White Men in Cars
The Arts Fuse welcomes a new character to its extended universe. Deanna Marie Costa, an editor and critic at the magazine.
Music Interview/Review: Nervous Eaters – Back for Another Helping
Luckily for us, after playing the occasional electrifying concert date over the years, Nervous Eaters is reuniting once again.
Film Review: “High Life” — Messy, Earthy Existentialism, In Outer Space
In space, no one can hear you go extinct.