Arts Fuse Editor
“No Hurry” is a book about aging: the conscious pang of the loss of past intensities, the treasuring of the quieter now, the achingly slow death of sex.
Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!
“Fifty Shades of Grey”‘s infamous “red room of pain,” where Christian Grey keeps his S&M tools neat and clean, is never displayed, while none of the novel’s dominant-submissive sexual fetishes are exploited for sly laughs.
Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!
Despite the show’s darkness, “East 100th Street”‘s exploration of Harlem in the ’60s is in many ways a testament to the endurance of love.
Chhandika is dedicated to keeping the intricate and expressive art form of Kathak dance relevant to contemporary audiences, particularly to those who are not familiar with the Ramayana.
Knowledge-burdened Ph.D.’s and passionate young mothers, deep into their problems and their futures. You had to compete to converse.
Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys specializes in modern psychedelic rock stripped of the jam-band baggage.
James Longenbach’s ear for the nuances of diction, tone, stress, and the material aspects of poetry is so good, and his grasp of context and biography so assured, one wonders why the essays so often tie themselves into semantic and logical knots.
Arts Commentary: The Orchestra Gap — Europe vs. the US