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: “Renoir: the Body, the Senses” — Beauty and Dismay
When he is at his best, few can match Renoir’s charm and popular appeal.
Latest in Music
Music Remembrance: Adeus, João Gilberto, Free-Spirited Creator of Bossa Nova
Melhor do que isso só mesmo o silêncio, melhor do que o silêncio só joão (The only thing better than [music] is silence, the only thing better than silence is João)—Caetano Veloso (“Pra Ninguém”)
Latest in Dance
Dance Review: “Dances by Isadora” — Freedom to Move
A passion for authenticity characterized this mesmerizing program from beginning to end.
Latest in Television
WATCH CLOSELY: Season 2 of “Dark” is Artful Horror
Despite Dark’s complicated structure, the characters are motivated by utterly realistic desires and emotions, which balance the show’s more abstract elements.
Latest in Books
Book Review: Unburied
David Treuer’s expansive new history of native America from 1890 to the present looks with skeptical, Indian eyes from inside simplistic American symbols and narratives.
Latest in Theater
Theater Review: “Dear Evan Hansen” in Boston is Broadway-Worthy
The touring company of Dear Evan Hansen is every bit as good as its Broadway counterpart.
Latest in Film
Film Review: “Crawl” — Home Invasion of the Creepy-Crawlies
This is a perfect guilty pleasure, an old fashioned B-movie without a franchise, explosions, overly recognizable actors, or exhausting mano a mano violence.
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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Classical CD Review: Bravo Leoš Janáček — A Marvelous Serving of his Vocal Music
This album led me to choose, for a summer project, to listen to all of the music of Janáček — and it has been a complete delight
Theater Review: “Selling Kabul” — Those Who Remain Behind
Selling Kabul poses many questions from the point of view of people seldom represented on the American stage.
Film Review: “Under the Silver Lake” — Through a Glass Blindly
Under the Silver Lake would be infuriating were its Charlie Kaufman-inspired adventures not so entertaining.
Theater Review: “Rock and Roll Man” — Ambitious Musical Fun
If you enjoy singing and dancing in your theater seat to the sound of good music while learning a bit about American cultural history and its personalities, you will enjoy this show.
Jazz Concert Review: A Third Report from the 40th Montreal Jazz Festival — Harmony Amidst Chaos
This year’s Montreal Jazz Festival Festival would have been more successful had it not been for all the construction ripping apart the city.