Brian Seibert’s history of tap dancing has unleashed something I can only describe as a tap world pissing contest.
Visual Arts Feature: Alla Kovgan, Treasure Hunter—Merce Cunningham at the ICA
Filmmaker Alla Kovgan calls Cunningham 3D a new juncture at the crossroads of dance, cinema, music, visual arts, and 3D technology.
Film Review: You Can Go Home Again (If You’re a Star)
What happens when someone performs at the highest possible level of an art form and then has to give it up?
Visual Arts Interview: George Fifield — Boston’s Cyberman
George Fifield has been pushing the conceptual ball called contemporary digital and intermedia art up a hill for decades.
Dance Review: Smile and Sneer — Mark Morris at the ICA
Now 58, the noted choreographer’s succinct gestural language, coincident use of music and musical ideas, and spatial elasticity is now completely second nature.
Dance Preview: Radio Dancing — A Conversation with Monica Bill Barnes
Monica Bill Barnes’s choreographic method can be characterized as make ’em laugh, then make ’em think.
Book Review: “Culture Crash” — The People Who Followed Their Bliss Off a Cliff
Truth is, the fraying of the middle class is not just something that has happened to creatives.
Fuse News: In March, Celebrity Series Will Help Us “Stave” Off Boredom
Stave off boredom. This is going to be a smoking festival.
Arts Commentary: The View from Free — 2014 Edition
The exploitation of the free labor of artists may finally have hit a critical mass in 2014, generating enough publicity to make observers righteously angry.
Fuse News: Cathy Edwards Comes to NEFA
This week, The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) announced that Cathy Edwards will become NEFA’s new Executive Director.