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As the age of Covid-19 finally wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. Please check with venues when uncertain whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Read MoreViolinist Lea Birringer’s performance of the Christian Sinding selections are impressive. Her Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, though, is missing drive, excitement, and passion.
Read MorePersonable but bracing, Sea Sick delivers an essential message: not only about the damage that is being done to the oceans, but the horrors that are coming down the pike.
Read MoreWhat could have been a fantastic twenty-minute short becomes a tedious slog as a stretched-out feature.
Read MoreA welcome homecoming for a new 4K digital restoration of a landmark independent film that’s attained cult status.
Read MoreAfrica’s Struggle for Its Art usefully charts the prequel to current campaigns pressuring for the return of colonial plunder.
Read MoreJust after Covid arrived in North America, journalist Helen Epstein was diagnosed with endometrial cancer — one of a predicted 66,570 new cases of cancer of the uterine body in the United States in 2021.
Read MoreAgain and again, we are taken in The Will to See to places where regular reporters never venture, and certainly not filmgoers.
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Book Review: “The Poetics of Cruising” — Imaginative Acts of Capture
By exploring the historical and artistic significance of cruising throughout poetry, photography, and visual culture, the book produces a rich and exciting topography of queer culture that posits a reflexive relationship of vicarious cruising between “cruising texts” and their consumers.
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