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

May 1, 2013
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A two week stay in Paris, April 11 through 26, delivered the sights and sounds crooned about in the well-known songs.

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Cultural Commentary: Why is Boston’s Arts Coverage So Bland?

April 22, 2013
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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.

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

April 17, 2013
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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.

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Fuse Commentary: What Does the End of Newspapers Mean for the Arts in Boston?

April 15, 2013
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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?

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Fuse News: Rdio Creates Vdio, An Online Video Service

April 4, 2013
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Yesterday the folks behind Rdio.com, the online music subscription service, started unveiling Vdio, an online video rental and sales service.

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Visual Arts Review: Boston Cyberarts’ “The Game’s Afoot” — Something Clever

March 20, 2013
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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?

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Visual Arts Review: “City Of Work” — A Satirically Dystopic Vision of The Daily Grind

January 21, 2013
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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.

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Dance Commentary: Crowd Sourced Choreography?

January 12, 2013
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What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?

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Visual Arts Review: COLLISION18:present — The Expanding Range of Cyberarts

November 17, 2012
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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).

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Fuse Review — ROUND: Cambridge Sounds the Depths of the City’s Public Art

October 21, 2012
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ROUND: Cambridge is a testament to what can be accomplished using smart phones, GPS coordinates and a Google map.

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