As the age of COVID-19 wanes (or waxes?), Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Latest in Visual Arts
Visual Arts Review: “The Treasure House of Memories” — Dreaming of New Pasts
At the ICA, artist Raúl de Nieves’s work is playful, joyful, and up for interpretation.
Latest in Music
Classical Album Review: The Nash Ensemble — Bruch’s Chamber Music
One could hardly ask for more persuasive Bruch advocacy than what the Nash Ensemble offers here.
Latest in Dance
Dance Review Flashback: The Irrepressible Dorrance Dance at Jacob’s Pillow
I can still feel the exhilaration, the rush of the opening of things, from that day.
Latest in Television
Television Review: “Chicago Party Aunt” — Livin’ the Vida Loca, Windy City Style
The bizarre half hour animated comedy is a hilarious love letter to The Windy City.
Latest Short Fuses
September Short Fuses – Materia Critica
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Latest Podcast
Short Fuse Podcast #43: What is Poetry For?
Host Elizabeth Howard talks with poet and performer Kyle Ducayan, executive director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, about the purpose of poetry.
Latest in Books
Book Review: “The Regrets” — Love Affair With the Semi-Dead
Is Amy Bonnaffons saying that heterosexual love is doomed? Probably not. But she gives no indication it can work in the world she creates here.
Latest in Theater
Theater Interview: “Moonlight Abolitionists” — Graveyard Shift
“In these plays, part of my job is to unflatten history in a way that’s engaging, and also shows us that it’s okay for us to feel overwhelmed and confused and scared by the world — that we’re not so different from the people who came before us. They got through it, and we will, too.”
Latest in Film
Film Feature: A Dispatch from Boston’s Last Video Rental Store
“If you really like something and want to make sure you have access to everything, you’ll never do better than having the disc.”
Latest in Food
Theater Review: “Seared” — A Recipe for Comedy
Theresa Rebeck’s foodie comedy Seared is more of an amiable appetizer than a substantial entree.
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Film Reviews: Toronto International Film Festival – Leopards and Lumpens and an Indian Lourdes
A quartet of highlights from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival: Anatolian Leopard, Dashcam, One Second, and Dug Dug.
Jazz Album Review: A Big Band Homage to the Late Jimmy Heath
The Temple University students in this fine big band homage to the late saxophonist/composer Jimmy Heath sound professional — tight and well rehearsed. They are joined by all-stars Joey DeFrancesco and Christian McBride.
Classical Album Review: Escher String Quartet — Barber & Ives String Quartets
Here is an outstanding recording from the Escher String Quartet of music by two stylistically divergent 20th-century American composers, Samuel Barber and Charles Ives.
Rock Concert Review: The Black Crowes — Flying High
You would never suspect from this big ol’ rock ’n’ roll show that The Black Crowes was essentially toast just a few years ago.
Jazz Appreciation: Remembering George Wein (1925-2021)
The sum total of George Wein’s career was a successful wedding of art and commerce.