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Visual Arts Review: Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals — Splendidly Revived

November 11, 2014
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Harvard’s team of magicians have brought the Rothko murals back to life.

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Fuse Concert Review: Celebrating the Life and Music of Pianist/Composer Jan Jarczyk

November 11, 2014
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A vigorous and admiring tribute to Jan Jarczyk, a man his daughter called “a whirlwind of creativity.”

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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.”

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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.

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Fuse Book Review: “The Betrayers” — A Powerful Vision of Jewish Life and its Contradictions

November 9, 2014
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It took me until I was nearly done with The Betrayers to step back and realize that one reason I found it so absorbing is that alienation plays no part.

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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.

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Book Review: In the Dutch Golden Age – When Science Becomes Profitable

November 9, 2014
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Cutting edge scholar Dániel Margócsy has penned a fascinating study about the early collisions of art, profit, and science.

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Theater Review: “Crack” — A Theatrical Meditation on Love, Mental Illness, and Modernity

November 7, 2014
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Crack is too complex and nuanced to be reduced to an anti-psychiatric tract.

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Movie Review: Inscrutable “Interstellar” — All You Need Is Love?

November 6, 2014
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I don’t want to give anything away. Not that I could because I really had no idea what anyone was talking about, except that what it is really all about is love.

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Book Review: The Story of the ‘Hand Grenade’ — Emmanuel Carrère’s Biography of the Russian Writer Eduard Limonov

November 5, 2014
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A compelling chronicle of the life of the notorious Russian writer and political activist Eduard Limonov.

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