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Coming Attractions: December 2 Through 18 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 2, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Jazz CD Review: The Kelly Green Trio — Flexing Musical Muscles

November 30, 2018
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Kelly Green and her trio are essentially mainstream players, but they explore a lot of challenging territory within that framework.

WATCH CLOSELY: Orson Welles — “The Other Side of the Wind”

November 29, 2018
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The Other Side of the Wind may inspire brooding melancholy in some, but it’s also pretty damned fine.

Visual Arts Review: Eugène Delacroix at the Met — An Uneasy Fit

November 26, 2018
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Perhaps Eugène Delacroix is best regarded as a leader of the resistance to academic art, part of the transition to impressionism.

Classical Music Review: “Widma” — An Imaginative Polish Experiment

November 25, 2018
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This recording challenges our settled sense of what art music, in conjunction with colorful spoken and sung verse, can accomplish.

Book Review: “Love in the New Millennium” — Inscrutable Passion

November 25, 2018
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This is a bewildering, frustrating, deeply weird novel, densely written and remarkably free of signposts.

Video Game Review: Spyro the Purple Dragon — Delightfully Reignited

November 24, 2018
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For once, an exceptional reboot of a classic game.

WATCH CLOSELY: The Coen Brothers and the Enchanting Western

November 23, 2018
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs demonstrates the Coens’ consummate skill for reinventing classic genre tropes, dovetailing deep affection with inspired re-interpretation.

Concert Review: Tenacious D Returns

November 23, 2018
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Jack Black and Kyle Gass were happily living out their nerdy, rockstar dreams — and their fans were loving it.

Visual Arts Remembrance: Robert Venturi, An Architectural Provocateur

November 21, 2018
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Robert Venuti’s opposition to the Modernism’s rigid corporate style made healthy waves.

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