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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.

Dance Review: A Heartfelt “Cinderella” at Jacob’s Pillow

June 27, 2015
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Cinderella isn’t a lavish spectacle à la the Met, but rather, like its heroine, modest on the surface while pulsing with a generous heart underneath.

Film Review: The Art of Being Frozen — Two Powerful Films from Roy Andersson

June 26, 2015
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The overriding theme in Roy Andersson’s films is the conflict between human frailty and our delusions of control.

Rock Concert Review: Rush — Celebrating 40 Years of Prog-Rock

June 24, 2015
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One thing I’ve learned in years of being a Rush fan: Nobody ever changes their mind on this band.

Visual Arts Review: Local Boy Makes Good at the Venice Biennale; Local Girl Perhaps Not So Much

June 24, 2015
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A mixed evaluation of the contributions of two New England artists — Joan Jonas and Mark Dion — at this year’s Venice Biennale.

Dance Commentary: Misty Copeland, Ballet, and Race

June 23, 2015
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Tomorrow, Misty Copeland will be American Ballet Theatre’s first African-American ballerina to perform the lead role in Swan Lake in New York City.

Concert Review: Richard Thompson — Moments of Sublimity

June 22, 2015
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He came up with one of those transcendent Richard Thompson moments, one to match anything I’ve seen onstage this year.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 21, 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.

Visual Arts Review: The Revelations of Walking — the Photography of Kageyama Kōyō

June 18, 2015
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The best of Kageyama Kōyō’s photography contains a nuanced dramatic power that is both aesthetic and political.

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