Review

Visual Arts Review: “Goya: Order and Disorder” — A Mountain of Superlatives

October 13, 2014
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Goya: Order and Disorder is likely the most important exhibition on the New England museum calendar for the coming year and then some.

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Book Review: Merritt Tierce’s Smart and Ruthless “Love Me Back” — The Way We Live Now

October 13, 2014
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So much of what this novel has to say feels bracing and necessary. This is where a good part of America lives—dangling over a chasm.

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Fuse Theater Review: New Rep Comes up With a Sly and Loose Version of “Assassins”

October 13, 2014
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The fine efforts of the New Rep performers and Jim Petosa’s thoughtful staging can’t solve this musical’s central flaw.

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Dance Review: Howling Wolf—Abraham.In.Motion at the ICA

October 12, 2014
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One of the reasons audiences and funders love Kyle Abraham’s work is that the layered landscapes of his dances resonate with the fraught conditions outside the theatre.

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Book Review: “The Great Gatsby” — The Greatest American Novel?

October 11, 2014
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There’s no debate: The Great Gatsby is the Great American Novel, with Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn as also-rans.

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Fuse Book Review: “The Bone Clocks” — Not Sufficiently Wound Up

October 10, 2014
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While The Bone Clocks is compulsively readable, there are too many parts of this book that can only be called lazy.

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Film Review: Here Comes “The Judge” — A Case of Melodramatic Manslaughter

October 10, 2014
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The good parts of The Judge make the its missteps more painful to watch.

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Visual Arts Review: “Figures of Empire” — When Racism and Art Meet

October 9, 2014
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Some fifty-five objects trace a legacy of casual brutality and white hegemony that is at the heart of Yale University’s—and this nation’s—founding.

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Visual Arts Review: At the ICA — The Many Pleasures That Fiber Can Offer

October 9, 2014
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Fiber takes on two key aesthetic ideas — gravity and the grid — and one major sociological one, the way fiber arts were created and exhibited as part of a larger feminist agenda.

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Theater Review: This “Comedy of Errors” is an Exhilarating Circus of Desperation

October 9, 2014
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The intriguing notion of a down-and-out clown troupe struggling with a classic text propels this superb production.

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