Featured

Fuse Visual Arts Feature: “The Woven Arc” at the Cooper Gallery

June 17, 2016
Posted in , ,

The premise of this intriguing exhibition of African and African American Art is that the revolution will not be televised, nor is it over.

Theater Interview: Bedlam Doubled — Director Eric Tucker on Twelfth Night/What You Will

June 17, 2016
Posted in , ,

“What other play culminates in such a frenzy of emotion and joy and love all in a moment on stage?”

Visual Arts Review: “Rodin — Transforming Sculpture” at the Peabody Essex Museum

June 17, 2016
Posted in , ,

In the hands of Rodin, the human form was shaped to tell an emotionally and psychologically complex story.

Fuse Commentary: “The Boston Globe” Cleans House

June 16, 2016
Posted in , , ,

Arts and entertainment are one and the same, both trivial– or at least way down the pecking order when it comes to things that are genuinely important.

Book Review: “Better Living Through Criticism” — Critical Self-Help

June 16, 2016
Posted in , , ,

A.O. Scott’s hurrah for criticism should be savored by anyone interested in how we articulate the value of the arts.

Book Review: “A Hero of France” — An Insider’s Guide to the French Resistance

June 16, 2016
Posted in , ,

Alan Furst’s books are spy thrillers infused with a crisp, rather than a flowery, literary sensibility.

Theater Review: “I Was Most Alive With You” — Ambition is Not Enough

June 16, 2016
Posted in , ,

The effort to merge Deaf culture with the Book of Job becomes too much a burden for Craig Lucas’s family melodrama to bear.

Book Review: “When Movies Were Theater” — Exploring Where We Watch the Movies

June 15, 2016
Posted in , ,

If you are interested in how the architecture within American movie houses shaped the cinema and vice-versa, this often brilliant tome is an instant classic.

Book Review: “Digging Up Mother” — Bizarro Family Values

June 15, 2016
Posted in , ,

Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope’s disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.

Book Review: “Exit Right” — A Rich Study of Ideologues

June 14, 2016
Posted in , ,

Exit Right is about how six men entered into politics on the left side of the spectrum and wound up immured in varying extremes of conservatism.

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives