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WATCH CLOSELY: “The Stand” Stumbles

January 26, 2021
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Though the cast is generally excellent, Stephen King’s characters are often at the mercy of wrongheaded writing or needlessly flashy special effects.

Visual Arts Review: Two Public Art Projects in Boston — Provocative Visual Expressions of the 21st Century

January 26, 2021
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Steeped in technology, non-traditional public art is about sparking conversations about visuals as well as playing with contemporary aesthetic perspectives.

Arts Publication Interview: The Coming of “Caesura” — Sustaining the Freedom of Art

January 26, 2021
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“The gallery system, publishing houses, and critical reviews — all that facilitates the production and criticism sides of art’s dialectic — need to be reconsidered.”

Book Review: “The Movement” — The Struggle for Civil Rights, Abbreviated

January 26, 2021
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The Movement works best as a stripped-down, high-speed introduction to the struggle for civil rights, nothing more.

Book Review: “Burning the Books” — The Never-ending War on the Preservation of Knowledge

January 25, 2021
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Burning the Books sometimes turns into  a disturbing chronicle of mankind’s elemental hostility to learning: barbarians often first targeted libraries and archives.

Book Feature: Remembering Norman Mailer

January 25, 2021
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Over six decades Norman Mailer managed, by turns, to engage and enrage and stir the zeitgeist’s pot.

Jazz Album Review: “Garden of Expression” — Virtuosic Meditations

January 25, 2021
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It’s easy to single out each of these musicians, but listeners will hear the three as nearly one, which is surely what this trinity intended.

Opera Album Review: Before “Carmen,” There Was Massenet’s Spanish-Tinged “Don César de Bazan”

January 24, 2021
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World premiere recording of an utterly delicious 1872 comic opera, recorded without spoken dialogue, so you can just revel in the music and the singing.

Shelter in Place Attractions: January 24 through February 9 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

January 24, 2021
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In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Classical Album Review: Žibuoklė Martinaitytė’s “Saudade” — Engrossing and Accessible Recent Orchestral Music

January 22, 2021
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Taken together, these four pieces showcase a composer whose handling of the orchestra is expert and whose sense of form, in these works at least, feels unerringly right.

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