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Arts Commentary: Getting ‘em in the Door

For the foreseeable, capitalist American future, full and equitable access to live, professional performing arts will depend on subsidy.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Commentary, Featured Tagged: arts-funding, Debra Cash, Emanuel Azenberg

Visual Arts Review: BarabásiLab — Where Art and Technology Meet, Beautifully

This BarabásiLab exhibition is inspiring because it exemplifies a powerful integration of art and technology.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: art, BarabásiLab, Boston Cyberarts, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, George Fifield, Mark Favermann, technology

Arts Remembrance: Pianist-Composer Frederic Rzewski

I consider composer Frederick Rzewski the most profound and persistent explorer of how to address injustice through the use of sophisticated compositional tools.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Frederic Rzewski, Musica Elettronica Viva, New Music in New Hampshire, Steve Provizer

Book Review: “The Brilliant Abyss” — Our Imperiled Oceans

Helen Scales is a self-described nerd who studies the ocean as an enthusiast as well as a scientist.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Atlantic Monthly Press, Ed Meek, Helen Scales, Ocean, The Brilliant Abyss

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

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

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

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

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

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

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