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Coming Attractions: October 9 through 23 — What Will Light Your Fire

Coming Attractions: October 9 through 23 — What Will Light Your Fire

Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Aimee Cotnoir, Bill-Marx, Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumhofer, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Milo Miles, Noah Schaffer, Steve Elman, Susan Miron, Tim Jackson

Arts Commentary: Conserving Cultural Heritage — the Tangible and the Intangible

Arts Commentary: Conserving Cultural Heritage — the Tangible and the Intangible

Cartagena is a 500-year old urban jewel in the Caribbean. But climate change and rising sea levels threaten its heritage.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Cartagena, Mark Favermann, Urban Planning

Visual Arts Commentary: A Tale of Two Bridges

Visual Arts Commentary: A Tale of Two Bridges

Two stories about how a public process, because of politics, can make it very difficult, and costly, to connect two points.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Commentary, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston, Cambridge, London, Longfellow Bridge, Mark Favermann, The Garden Bridge

Visual Arts Commentary: The ICA — The Limits of Being an Icon

Visual Arts Commentary: The ICA — The Limits of Being an Icon

The nagging question: why didn’t the ICA didn’t create a building that offered options to be developed vertically?

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Commentary, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: ICA Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Mark Favermann, the Watershed

Fuse Book Review: How Science Fared in the Enlightenment — At the Halle Orphanage

Kelly Joan Whitmer does two things very well: she tells a vibrant tale of intellectual reform and shines a light on less prominent historical actors in the history of science.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts Tagged: August Hermann Francke, Early Enlightenment, Eclecticism, Kelly Joan Whitmer, Observation, Pietism, Scientific Community, The Halle Orphanage

Visual Arts Review: Cyberarts’s Art on the Marquee — Digital Game Shorts for Now People

Visual Arts Review: Cyberarts’s Art on the Marquee — Digital Game Shorts for Now People

Whether art can comfortably exist in this thoroughly commercial frame is a question for the ages. Let’s say that whether this show succeeds is firmly in the eye of the beholder.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts Tagged: Art on the Marquee, Boston Convention & Exhibit Center, Boston Cyberarts, Margaret Weigel, PAX East convention

Arts Commentary: To Stay or Not to Stay? Copley Place’s fountain faces an uphill battle

Arts Commentary: To Stay or Not to Stay? Copley Place’s fountain faces an uphill battle

Today, the fountain at Copley Place feels embarrassing in some way; not its form or execution, but its very existence.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Copley Place, Dimitri Hadzi, fountain, Omphalos, The Copley Place Fountain

Book Review: “Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” — Rewriting the History of Ideas

Book Review: “Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” — Rewriting the History of Ideas

“Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” is a mesmerizing study that will enchant anyone interested in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural explorations of the history of science that transform the way we look at the past and the present.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts, World Books Tagged: Avner Ben-Zaken, cross-cultural, history of science, Johns Hopkins University Press, Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism

Fuse Feature: A Letter From Paris, City of the Arts

Fuse Feature: A Letter From Paris, City of the Arts

A two week stay in Paris, April 11 through 26, delivered the sights and sounds crooned about in the well-known songs.

By: Iris Fanger Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Featured Tagged: Paris

Book Review: A House of Many Doors — Gish Jen’s Tiger Writing

Book Review: A House of Many Doors — Gish Jen’s Tiger Writing

Moving restlessly between independence and interdependence in style and content, the lecture captures the changeling quality that Gish Jen associates with those who must creatively manage multiple cultural influences.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured Tagged: Culture and the Interdependent Self, Gish Jen, Tiger Writing

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