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Book Review: Living Well is not the Same as Being Good—Jim Harrison’s “The Ancient Minstrel”

March 18, 2016
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Jim Harrison’s prose is gorgeous, illuminating. The simple language slides into your head and resonates there.

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Visual Arts Interview: Artist Rosalyn Drexler at the Rose Art Museum — Reasons to be Cheerful

March 18, 2016
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The prolific and much heralded novelist, painter, and playwright has no shortage of opinions, many of which run contrary to the art-historical party line.

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Concert Review: Kent Nagano’s Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal Triumphs in Boston

March 18, 2016
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Kent Nagano’s return to Boston revealed him to be a fully mature world-class conductor.

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Fuse Film Review: “In the Shadow of Women” — Stuck In the Shades of Depression

March 15, 2016
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In the Shadow of Women is obviously meant to be a throwback/homage to the French New Wave cinema of the early to mid-1960s.

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Visual Arts Review: Canadian Painter Lawren Harris — Spirituality, Cold and Hard

March 15, 2016
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Lawren Harris is determined to present a static vision of the top of the continent, a version of nature that is stylized, austere, immobile, and eternal.

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Fuse Music Interview: Skylar Gudasz — A Gifted Songwriter and an Artist About to Happen

March 14, 2016
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Skylar Gudasz’s deep voice is well suited to the gorgeous melancholy that pervades her songs.

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Dance Review: Hurtling Through the Spheres — Compagnie Hervé Koubi

March 14, 2016
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Koubi’s piece overturned expectations in so many ways it could be called innovative, groundbreaking.

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Music Feature: Guitarist Steve Kimock — More Musical Tricks up his Sleeve

March 14, 2016
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Some records are snapshots, but Last Danger of Frost is more like a long gaze into a mirror.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: March 13 through 22 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 13, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Fuse Film Review: “Trapped” — Our Bodies, Our Clinics

March 12, 2016
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When it comes to women’s reproductive rights it is looking an awful lot like The Handmaid’s Tale out there, folks.

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