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: “Renoir: the Body, the Senses” — Beauty and Dismay
When he is at his best, few can match Renoir’s charm and popular appeal.
Latest in Music
Music Remembrance: Adeus, João Gilberto, Free-Spirited Creator of Bossa Nova
Melhor do que isso só mesmo o silêncio, melhor do que o silêncio só joão (The only thing better than [music] is silence, the only thing better than silence is João)—Caetano Veloso (“Pra Ninguém”)
Latest in Dance
Dance Review: “Dances by Isadora” — Freedom to Move
A passion for authenticity characterized this mesmerizing program from beginning to end.
Latest in Television
WATCH CLOSELY: Season 2 of “Dark” is Artful Horror
Despite Dark’s complicated structure, the characters are motivated by utterly realistic desires and emotions, which balance the show’s more abstract elements.
Latest in Books
Book Review: “The Ministry of Truth” — Writing a Blueprint for Disaster
Words from George Orwell to live by: “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
Latest in Theater
Theater Review: “Morning’s at Seven” — Ensemble Excellence
This production of Morning’s at Seven is a celebration of Peterborough’s theatrical family as much as it is the depiction of a fictional one.,/em>
Latest in Film
Film Review: “Under the Silver Lake” — Through a Glass Blindly
Under the Silver Lake would be infuriating were its Charlie Kaufman-inspired adventures not so entertaining.
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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Arts Remembrance — Rip Torn: A Short Appreciation
Rip Torn. Great name, better actor.
Television Review: “Right Now” — Comedy in Jeopardy
Aziz Ansari does get laughs throughout his set, but the tone of Right Now begins and ends on a note of sobriety.
Poetry Review: “Frozen Charlotte” — Plenty of Pleasure
In Frozen Charlotte, Susan de Sola provides readers with enough aesthetic pleasure and thoughtful commentary about today’s world to remind us of just how good — and necessary — poetry can be.
Classical CD Review: Bravo Leoš Janáček — A Marvelous Serving of his Vocal Music
This album led me to choose, for a summer project, to listen to all of the music of Janáček — and it has been a complete delight.
Book Review: Unburied
David Treuer’s expansive new history of native America from 1890 to the present looks with skeptical, Indian eyes from inside simplistic American symbols and narratives.