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