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: “Painting Edo” — Lessons About Art and the Good Society
Go feast your eyes.
Latest in Music
Concert Review: Skylark Vocal Ensemble — Sublime Storytime
Storytelling is big business in concert halls these days, and as a yarn spinner Sarah Walker is in a class her own.
Latest in Dance
Dance Review: Korea’s Bereishit Dance Company — Addressing Violence, Beautifully
The amazing Bereishit Dance Company asks how dance fits into the physical world.
Latest in Television
WATCH CLOSELY: “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” — Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Where will the coven go from here? Its pivot away from patriarchy echoes the growing resistance of women the world over — and that is a powerful message indeed.
Latest in Books
Book Review: “These Fevered Days” — Exploring an Enigma
From the first page of Martha Ackmann’s new book on Emily Dickinson, you know you’re reading something entirely different.
Latest in Theater
Theater Review: “She the People” — Part Protest Rally and Part Catharsis
As my second wave feminist companion said as we left the theater, “That was hilarious. And I am SO ANGRY.”
Latest in Film
Film Review: “After We Leave” — No Place Like Home
I was blown away by how good After We Leave looks, its subtlety and plausibility and confident simplicity.
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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Film Review: “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey” — A Harlequin Feminist Manifesto
The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?
Book Review: “Weather” — Despite All the Ruckus
There’s a funny, parabolic quality to the emotional weather in Weather — amidst all the unsettling harbingers, the sensation of being in end times, there is still love.
Arts Commentary: Politics IS Performance — A Director Evaluates the Candidates
Politicians are forced to perform on a massive stage and under the fierce gaze of a thousand lenses, yet few have real skills in that arena.
Book Review: “Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound” — Poetry of Common Cause
Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.
Book Review: “Strange Hotel” — Battling the Inner Critic
Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.