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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

July 5, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

Dance Feature: Jacob’s Pillow Archive — Rebooted

July 4, 2015
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Jacob’s Pillow’s revamped archive is a sort of museum as well as a library. A catalogue of the holdings is in the works. .

Theater Appreciation: “Miracle of Miracles” — The Priscilla Beach Theatre Redux

July 3, 2015
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The venerable Priscilla Beach Theatre was in danger of crumbling away — but it has been fully restored and is swinging into a summertime season of musicals.

Arts Fuse Appreciation: Ornette Coleman’s Horn of Plenty

July 3, 2015
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So there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”

Dance Review: Tom Gold Dance — An Uneven Outing

July 1, 2015
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“Ballet is only good when it is great,” the legendarily unblinking dance critic Arlene Croce once wrote; whenever I bring that judgement to mind it makes me both swallow hard and sigh softly.

Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz — Dancing the Phrase

July 1, 2015
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Pam Tanowitz’s performance seemed to be as much about the connections among artists and their ideas as about the unanticipated gaps between them.

Visual Arts Feature: Visiting the Only Frank Lloyd Wright Building in MA

June 30, 2015
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The Theodore Baird House is a special place; the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure in Massachusetts.

Visual Arts Counter-View: Celebrating the Art of Thomas Hart Benton

June 29, 2015
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Looked at on his own terms Thomas Hart Benton is an American Master and deserves to be reconsidered.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 28, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

Film Review: “A Swedish Love Story” — The Angst of Desire

June 28, 2015
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In A Swedish Love Story, Roy Andersson muses on the meaning of life, but for the first and last time he expresses his sense of life’s absurdity through an accessible plot line.

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