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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual art, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
Read MoreAn exciting complement to the new book is a traveling retrospective of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films, a rare opportunity to see 19 of the director’s movies shown on 35mm film: at Cambridge’s Harvard Film Archive through November 2.
Read MoreDirector David Fincher does a good job at making our skin crawl while we chuckle at the audacity of the goings-ons in Gone Girl.
Read MoreThere were times during the performance when Mehmet Ali Sanlikol and the band seemed to fully enter the Ottoman empire.
Read MoreThe more-than-satisfactory appeal of Traces is to see these gifted athletes perform time-honored circus skills – the attempt to make the performers look like televised rock stars falls flat.
Read MoreThe excellent E-Team documents a remarkable effort to investigate the abuse of human rights, an endeavor that, for the most part, goes unheralded in our mainstream media.
Read MoreThe BSO played with palpable enthusiasm. Andris Nelsons conducted with characteristic energy. There was, by the end of the evening, certainly, quite a bit about which to be happy.
Read MoreHow well Conversations with Beethoven works as fiction will depend on the engagement and imaginative powers of the reader.
Read MoreLila is an ambitious book that is deeply flawed and not nearly in the same class as Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead.
Read MoreEach John Oliver monologue takes a different weighty and urgent political issue and deconstructs it with wit, clarity and moral purpose.
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