If you like your films “weird, sexually provocative, and intellectually stimulating” (add violence to the mix) then our critics will feed your appetite splendidly.
Jazz Concert Review: Portrait of Composer/Pianist Ran Blake — Celebrating 85 Years
Ran Blake was in fine form at the festivities as were the New England Conservatory faculty and student participants.
Book Review: “The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar” — A Formalist Critic’s Picaresque Novel
A new complete translation of the most accomplished novel by Yury Tynyanov, an innovative Russian man of letters during the experimental 1920s.
Book Review: “The Recent East” — Exploring Seldom Seen Territory
Thomas Grattan, a New Yorker with German roots, displays an observant eye and a way with dialogue in his first novel.
Book Review: “¡Printing the Revolution! — The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now”
There’s a looseness, a jagged brio that gives the images in ¡Printing the Revolution! a visual bang — a kind of primal pop.
Film Review: “The Last Blockbuster” — A Nostalgia Trip to Video Heaven
Could it be, I dream, that a resurgence in local video shops much be in the cards, like the vinyl record stores that are popping up everywhere now?
Arts Remembrance: Jeff Breeze, Host of WMBR’s “Pipeline”
“I don’t believe that there has been a stronger advocate for local music than Jeff Breeze. Nobody cared more about local music than him — nobody.”
Shelter in Place Attractions: March 21 through April 6 — What Will Light Your Home Fires
In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Jazz Album Review: Big Bands, Ian Charleton and Schapiro17
Two big bands, two different sides of the tradition.
Author Interview: Kevin Mattson on a Genuine Culture War — Punks versus Reagan
The real culture war in 1980s America was waged by young people who were trying to create their own culture and jealously rejected corporate culture along the way.