Visual Arts

Film Review: “The Tomi Ungerer Story” — Too Minor An Artist, Too Much Self-Adoration

July 12, 2013
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Does every semi-famous person deserve a full-length documentary about them?

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Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

July 11, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual art, and film that’s coming up this week. A new feature!

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Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

July 4, 2013
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[Updated.] Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week. A new feature!

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Visual Arts Review: Of Cows and the Cosmos — Sharon Yates at the Whistler House Museum of Art

July 1, 2013
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Painter Sharon Yates’ patience and devotion breathes depth and character into a seemingly banal subject: cow pastures.

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Theater Review: “Not What Happened” — Exploring History’s Vanishing Presence

June 21, 2013
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What Ain Gordon’s play demonstrates is that even when records are indecipherable and incomplete, we still have the right, and perhaps the responsibility, to imagine what happened.

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Visual Arts Review: Seeing the Wonders of Diaghilev and The Ballets Russes

June 9, 2013
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This exhibit dedicated to Diaghilev and The Ballets Russes is well worth a trip to Washington D.C. because of the amazing objects on display.

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Visual Arts Review: At the MFA — Bruce Davidson’s Dramatic Vision of ’60s Harlem

May 20, 2013
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Despite the show’s darkness, “East 100th Street”‘s exploration of Harlem in the ’60s is in many ways a testament to the endurance of love.

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Visual Arts Review: “Convergence: Boston Sculptors Gallery Exhibits on the Christian Science Plaza”

May 19, 2013
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The show was like topping a delicate wedge of artisanal cheese with a handful of artisanal trail mix. Both the Christian Science Plaza and the sculptures themselves are exquisite on their own, but together the experience felt disjointed and oddly incompatible.

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Visual Arts Review: Fine and Dandy at RISD

May 18, 2013
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The influence of two centuries of dandies on fashion — and the artful, strategic, ready-for-the-paparazzi self-presentation at the heart of modern celebrity — is on wide-ranging and colorful display in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum exhibit.

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Fuse News: NYC’s The American Folk Art Museum — Destroying it as Vandalism.

May 13, 2013
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It’s notable and heartening when informed critical opinion manages to stop a juggernaut in its tracks.

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