Month: November 2013
With the 1% rapidly vacuuming up the resources of the upper and middle classes, A.R. Gurney’s comic vision of the tipsy idle rich, shorn of cares and criminality, floats completely free of reality.
Read MorePlease 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.
Read MoreJennifer Lawrence has blossomed into a charismatic screen presence in her gala return as Katniss, the beloved bow-and-arrow heroine of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in dance, music, theater, and film that’s coming up for the next two weeks.
Read MoreSo we’ve got a mixed bag. If you get this Lang Lang disc, it should be for the Bartók, but not the Prokofiev: as things stand, the competition there simply blows Lang out of the water.
Read MoreArt Spiegelman believes that “MAD” magazine was more subversive for his generation of protesters than either marijuana or LSD. It certainly radicalized him.
Read MoreTwo discs released by Harmonia Mundi benefit from the dramatic flair of conductor René Jacobs.
Read MoreDaniel Arasse’s method has been defined by his students as “looking, [taking] pleasure and [being] imprudent.” Any and every detail of a work of art can serve as his starting point.
Read MoreLast year, Arts Fuse Critic Jonathan Blumhofer was awarded a grant to support a concert of his music performed by the Worcester Chamber Music Society.
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Music Commentary: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest versus French Quarter Fest