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Visual Arts Feature: When a SEVEN Is More Than a Seven

November 13, 2014
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Most museums today dream of coming up with striking public images. In that sense, the Portland Museum of Art’s acquisition of SEVEN combines a significant artistic statement with a marketing coup.

Fuse Music Feature: 12th International Pop Overthrow Boston Hits Allston

November 10, 2014
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“The name meant that we were going to present bands from all around the world, and that we wanted to ‘overthrow’ the pop establishment that had taken over radio.”

Visual Arts Review: M. C. Escher — Shapeshifter Extraordinaire

November 10, 2014
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M.C. Escher’s extraordinary fantasy constructions are captivating visual environments whose frisky improbability beguile.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 9, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual arts, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 2, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual arts, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

Visual Arts: Simon Fujiwara at Harvard’s Carpenter Center — A Canny, Wildly Funny Lens on Modern Ideas

November 2, 2014
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Simon Fujiwara epitomizes the new model of a successful avant-garde artist in the world today.

Fuse Film Review: “Listen Up Philip” — Portrait of the Artist as Sheer Ego

October 31, 2014
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Despite Philip’s self-absorbed claptrap, young, successful women seem to be drawn to him. Go figure.

Book Review: “The Zone of Interest” — Not Quite Interesting Enough

October 30, 2014
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Martin Amis’s fiction, bleak though it often is, paradoxically remains compelling and pleasurable to read because of how well he writes about dreadful things.

Film Review: “Unorthodox” — A Mixed Bag at the Arlington International Film Festival

October 29, 2014
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Unorthodox teases the audience with the come-on that it will be a highly unusual documentary about religion and individual transformation..

Poetry Review: “The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett” — Castings

October 28, 2014
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Have we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?

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