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Bill Marx

Coming Attractions: March 12 Through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumnhofer, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Noah Schaffer, peter-Walsh, Tim Jackson

Film Review: “Living” — Ode to Joy

Featuring a transcendent performance by Bill Nighy, Living inspires viewers to look inward, and then outward, gently begging us to muster whatever power we have to seize the day.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Bill Nighy, Kazuo-Ishiguro, Living, Oliver Hermanus, Peg Aloi

Album Review: A Past Fit for the Future –“Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium”

Projects such as Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium extricate the resilient voice of the people from the cacophony of current ideological intervention.

By: Jeremy Ray Jewell Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music, Review, World Music Tagged: Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium, Corey Harris, Craft Recordings, Ted Olson

Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello — Proudly Flaunting his Dependability and Unpredictability

Elvis Costello loves to visit various regions of the past but wouldn’t dare move to any of them permanently.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Elvis Costello, Steve Thomas, The Cabot

Classical Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Davis, Dawson, and Bonds

While balancing the scales of justice can be difficult work, the effort is an important act of generosity, even love.

By: Aaron Keebaugh Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aaron Keebaugh, Anthony Davis, Anthony McGill, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Wilkins, William Levi Dawson

Book Review: “Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness” — No Way Out?

Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness has scholarly value but, given its diminution of human agency, it will not significantly impact real life public conversations about ending white privilege and dealing with the complexities of cultural appropriation.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Dave Brubeck, Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness, Kelsey Klotz

Visual Arts Review: Is There a Boston Art?

Arnold Trachtman, Isabelle Higgins, and Barbara Ishikura are all “Boston Modern” artists who never stray far from communicating all-too-human joys and worries.

By: Helen Miller, Michael Strand Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Arnold Trachtman, Barbara Ishikura, Boston Expressionism, Boston Modern, Child’s Gallery, Helen Miller, Isabelle Higgins, Michael Strand, On The Town

Book Review: “Epic Annette” — What Is Heroism?

Surely the selfless subject of Anne Weber’s Epic Annette qualifies beyond doubt as a true heroine of the twentieth century?

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Annette Beaumanoir, Epic Annette, Kai Maristed, Poetry, The Indigo Press

WATCH CLOSELY: “Red Rose” is Teen Social Media Horror

Technology-driven horror narratives are ubiquitous these days: Red Rose has an authentic look that makes its creepiness distressingly plausible.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: BBC, Black Mirror, horror, Michael, Netflix, Paul Clarkson, Red Rose

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

Here’s this week’s poem, “Time” by Nicole Callihan.

By: John Mulrooney Filed Under: Featured, Poetry at The Arts Fuse Tagged: Nicole Callihan, Poetry, time

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