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If dancing around as a giant CGI monster makes someone happy, then that is enough to make me happy. Let’s embrace what makes us different and do what we love.
Poet and professor Jed Rasula makes the case for The Waste Land‘s lasting revolutionary impact in his engaging and insightful, if occasionally discursive, study.
It’s hard to imagine anyone producing a more complete and authoritative biography of baritone sax player Pepper Adams.
Our music critics pick some of the standout albums and performances of 2022.
At its core, the Revels is about bringing together actors and audience, but there are several stagecraft successes to note this time around
The magazine’s jazz critics look back over the past year and highlight their favorite albums.
In this valuable book, Adrienne Buller assesses the efficacy of leading market-based efforts to address climate change and nature loss and contends that they have largely failed.
The most mesmerizing characters in this stunningly visual production are brilliant life-size puppets.
As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Book Review: “Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life” — Less Intriguing But Even More Mysterious
As befits an official biography, Silver and Greenwald approach their subject with decorum and respect: they neither hide nor emphasize potentially controversial elements, carefully outlining the sources of money in Isabella’s family and the old Boston Brahmin fortune of her devoted husband.
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