Arts Fuse Editor
Director Vicki Vasilopoulos has masterfully crafted a documentary about tailors, clothing, and the painstaking search for excellence.
Now on the cusp of nine decades, Frank Stella is dedicated to visual experimentation, a kind of controlled and aesthetic atom-smashing,
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
The protagonist’s confrontation with his past barbarity is far and away the most compelling part of Out of My Hand.
Chi-Raq is a work of agitprop—preachy, strident, sentimental, even sacramental.
The music was so extraordinarily pleasant and well performed that the two-hour production breezed by.
Jess Foster’s clever script takes the trope of “cars are like women” to its logical, though unexpected, extreme.
If the creators of Flesh and Bone want to whip upanother trite soap opera, that’s their prerogative. But hush about the “realism.”
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Cultural Commentary: After Three Decades, The End of Live Jazz at Boston’s Top of the Hub
Top of the Hub was one of the very rare places in the country where ordinary folks would bump into jazz every night.
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