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Visual Arts Commentary: “The Scream,” “Sunflowers,” and the “Mona Lisa” — Gone Baby Gone

July 11, 2021
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Perhaps we need to call on Sherlock Holmes in order to resolve the 31-year old “no end in sight” Gardner heist?

Author Interview: Aaron S. Lecklider on the Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture

July 7, 2021
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The reader comes away from Love’s Next Meeting with an awareness of the rich history of homosexual culture existed long before the Stonewall riots in the summer of ‘69.

Arts Remembrance: Pianist-Composer Frederic Rzewski

July 5, 2021
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I consider composer Frederick Rzewski the most profound and persistent explorer of how to address injustice through the use of sophisticated compositional tools.

Film Commentary: Provincetown Film Festival — A Very Good Year

June 28, 2021
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John Waters and I were in sync with our favorite in this year’s festival.

Opera Commentary: Labor Action at the Met — “Wear Your Union Colors!” — Update

June 26, 2021
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Locked-Out MET Stagehands and Skilled Craftspeople ,Joined by Union Supporters, Launch First-of-Its-kind Interactive “Virtual Picket Line.”

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

June 23, 2021
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Helen Scales is a self-described nerd who studies the ocean as an enthusiast as well as a scientist.

Visual Arts Interview: The Colonial Elephant in the Room — Talking with Barnaby Phillips, author of “Loot: Britain and The Benin Bronzes”

June 16, 2021
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Last week, just a month after the publication of Loot in the US, the Met in New York announced that it was returning two Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.

Arts Commentary: Small Business Administration — Cut the Red Tape and Distribute Fed Money to Shuttered Venues!

June 12, 2021
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Boston’s independent theatres and music venues are joining thousands from around the country to call on the Small Business Administration to immediately release Shuttered Venue Operators Grant funds.

THE ARTS FUSE TURNS 14! — Our Spring Appeal

June 4, 2021
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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Blue Lives Madder, “Dirty Harry” Turns 50

June 4, 2021
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The path Dirty Harry (and too many of his defenders, then and now) chose to pursue — the urban policing version of “killing the village in order to save it” — was outdated and discredited even in 1971.

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