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June Short Fuses — Materia Critica

June 1, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Classical Album Review: Experiential Orchestra’s “American Counterpoints” — Fine Music Hiding in Plain Sight

June 1, 2024
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There’s no question that either the violinist or the orchestra are completely at home with Julia Perry’s larger style or the notes: this is about as confident and secure a first recording as they come.

Book Review: “The Warehouse” — A Visual Primer of America’s Carceral System

June 1, 2024
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The graphics in “The Warehouse” provide clear explanations of a grim reality. The U.S. leads the world at incarcerating its citizens.

Concert Review: The Rolling Stones — As Precious as Ever

May 31, 2024
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Returning to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough on Thursday night, the Rolling Stones, miraculously, sounded dangerous again.

Film Review: “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara” — Taken by Order of the Pope

May 31, 2024
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There is no denying that “Kidnapped”‘s warning about political authority abusing religion for its own accumulative ends resonates powerfully at this moment.

Concert Reviews: Chamber Music Roundup — Radius Ensemble and Chameleon Arts Ensemble

May 30, 2024
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Two Boston-area chamber music ensembles recently ended their seasons. Each embraced the present in its own distinctive way.

Theater Review: “4000 Miles” — Are We There Yet?

May 30, 2024
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The script is representative of the pitfalls of current theatrical minimalism — less can so easily be less.

Author Interview: Talking with Award-Winning Poet and Essayist Maggie Smith

May 30, 2024
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The inciting action of Smith’s moving memoir is the event that forced her to reckon with the fact that her marriage was in trouble.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

May 30, 2024
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This week’s poem: Kirsten Kaschock’s “Contingent”

Book Review: “Ginster” — The Numbness, not the Glory, of War

May 29, 2024
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The reissue of this novel now is valuable, beyond its considerable historical and aesthetic virtues, because it makes pertinent points about today’s world, bedeviled by war, misery, poverty, and the enticing lure of despotism as an answer to democracy’s shortcomings.

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