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Book Review: Two Glimpses of Caribbean Culture in a Year without Carnival

A pair of recent books help keep the glorious spirit of Carnival alive.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Caribbean culture, Culture, Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music In New York, Michael C Smith, People, Places - Trinidad and Tobago, Ray Allen

Arts Fuse Podcast #10: The Audacity of Art

Fuse writers Lucas Spiro and Matt Hanson once again bang their heads against the walls of some of art’s big questions.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: arts, Border, Culture, Josh Begley, politics, Wall, William Giraldi

Book Review: Stanley Fish Invites Readers to “Think Again” — With Chutzpah

The New York Times columns selected for Think Again are engaging, provocative, maddening, humorous, and insightful.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, education, Law, New York Times column, politics, Princeton University Press, religion, Stanley Fish, Think Again

Fuse/Public Humanist Commentary — Spreading a Desire for the Good Things in Life

I have written another commentary for the Mass Humanities blog, The Public Humanist. It is a reaction, admiring but skeptical, to John Armstrong’s recent polemic IN SEARCH OF CIVILIZATION: REMAKING A TARNISHED IDEA.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books Tagged: Culture, In Search of Civilization, John Armstrong, Mass Humanities

Short Film Reviews: A Focus on The Boston Jewish Film Festival [2x Updated]

And so I go, Jewish and glad to be, theatre director—maybe between gigs, old enough to believe that movies are best on the big screen among other (quiet) viewers and that you don’t have to be Jewish to love good Jewish movies. By Joann Green Breuer The danger of speaking critically of any ethnic art […]

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Army of Crime, arts, Boston Jewish Film Festival, Culture, Jewish, Maya, Oh What a Mess, Paris Return, The So-Called Movie, The Trotsky

The Judicial Review — What Is It?

There is now an eighth Judicial Review, with the panel deliberating on the Boston University College of Fine Arts production of the 1990 Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical “Assassins,” which looks at the lives and sensibilities of men and women who attempted (successfully or otherwise) to kill the President of the United States. Below: background on […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Judicial Review Tagged: arts-criticism, critics, Culture, humanities, Mass Humanities

Great News For the ‘Fuse — Support for the Judicial Review

I am not sure that men at present think more profoundly than half a century ago, but beyond question they think with more rapidity, with more skill, with more tact, with more method and less of excrescence in the thought. Besides all this, they have a vast increase in the thinking material; they have more […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Judicial Review, Webmaster News Tagged: arts-criticism, critics, Culture, humanities, Mass Humanities

Boston Culture Series Wrap-Up

This final ArtsCast features the conclusion of our series examining Boston at the cultural crossroads. Bill Marx speaks with Maureen Dezell who has written for the arts in various publications including the Boston Globe and the Phoenix and you have heard on the podcast interview various cultural movers and shakers about Boston lagging in cultural […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Podcast Tagged: arts, Boston, Culture, marketing-arts, philadelphia

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