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In recent years several serious artists, Amanda Parer among them, have created giant inflatable pieces with the aim of making cultural/political statements.
Bruno Colson’s book is a wonder of research, and serves to shed light on the state of Napoleon’s mind.
In this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot’s early intellectual development.
This troupe from North Carolina has managed to hit all the right prog-rock targets with music that has sweep, depth, and texture while avoiding pretension.
The protagonist’s version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
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.
“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.
Arts Fuse Appreciation: Ornette Coleman’s Horn of Plenty
So there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”
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