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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fuse Theater Review: “Knock! The Daniil Kharms Project” — Absurdity Knocked About

October 7, 2014
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Imaginary Beasts is to be congratulated for bringing public attention to the brilliant, idiosyncratic-to–the-max-and-beyond work of Daniil Kharms, a writer silenced by Stalin.

Visual Arts Review: Lester Johnson — Existentialism’s Matisse

October 7, 2014
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Despite producing atmospheres reminiscent of smoke, rust, and acid, a streak of joy runs through Lester Johnson’s paintings.

Concert Review: Pianist Maurizio Pollini — Chopin Performed Thrillingly

October 7, 2014
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Maurizio Pollini’s Chopin was breathtakingly beautiful, and often downright thrilling.

Theater Review: A First-Rate and Relevant Version of “An Enemy of the People”

October 7, 2014
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Ibsen’s and Miller’s scientist hero must contend with denial, disbelief, ignorance, fear of change, malice, opportunism, greed, the abuse of power, censorship, betrayal, and violence. Sound familiar?

Book Review: “The fuzzy cinema of certain key events of my life” – Frankétienne’s “spiralist” novel “Ready to Burst”

October 6, 2014
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Ready to Burst is a compelling, intricately structured story told in resourceful, oft-poetic language by a influential Haitian poet and novelist.

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