A two week stay in Paris, April 11 through 26, delivered the sights and sounds crooned about in the well-known songs.
Commentary
Cultural Commentary: Why is Boston’s Arts Coverage So Bland?
According to our docile mainstream media, Boston enjoys a perpetual Renaissance — the merchandise in the cultural window is always worth buying. And that predictability makes for very boring journalism.
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.
Fuse Commentary: What Does the End of Newspapers Mean for the Arts in Boston?
Recent changes in Boston’s media landscape do not bode well for substantial coverage of the arts. What do those in the arts world think about what is happening?
Fuse News: Rdio Creates Vdio, An Online Video Service
Yesterday the folks behind Rdio.com, the online music subscription service, started unveiling Vdio, an online video rental and sales service.
Visual Arts Review: Boston Cyberarts’ “The Game’s Afoot” — Something Clever
None of these games engendered any suffering at all. They were already pre-designed for failure; a player has no chance of success. But isn’t part of the pleasure of gaming the repeated failures that, over time, lead to successes?
Visual Arts Review: “City Of Work” — A Satirically Dystopic Vision of The Daily Grind
Artist Michael Lewy’s comprehensive, clever and surprisingly humorous take on an imaginary experimental settlement explores the ramifications of having human potential promptly assessed and harnessed for work, and work alone.
Dance Commentary: Crowd Sourced Choreography?
What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?
Visual Arts Review: COLLISION18:present — The Expanding Range of Cyberarts
The more cerebral visitor may leave “Collision18:present” wondering if, like the classic definition of what constitutes pornography, ‘cyberart’ is firmly situated in the eye of the beholder (or of the curators).
Fuse Review — ROUND: Cambridge Sounds the Depths of the City’s Public Art
ROUND: Cambridge is a testament to what can be accomplished using smart phones, GPS coordinates and a Google map.