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Coming Attractions: May 15 through 31 — What Will Light Your Fire

May 15, 2022
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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.

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Classical Album Review: Violinist Lea Birringer plays Sinding and Mendelssohn

May 14, 2022
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Violinist Lea Birringer’s performance of the Christian Sinding selections are impressive. Her Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, though, is missing drive, excitement, and passion.

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Theater Review: “Sea Sick” — How Damned Is the Ocean?

May 14, 2022
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Personable 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.

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Book Review: “The Poetics of Cruising” — Imaginative Acts of Capture

May 13, 2022
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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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Film Review: “The Automat” — A Documentary Love-In to the Restaurant Chain

May 13, 2022
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What could have been a fantastic twenty-minute short becomes a tedious slog as a stretched-out feature.

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Visual Arts Review: BarabásiLab — Where Art and Technology Meet, Beautifully

May 13, 2022
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This BarabásiLab exhibition is inspiring because it exemplifies a powerful integration of art and technology.

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Film Review: Dennis Hopper’s “Out of the Blue” — Still a Stunner

May 12, 2022
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A welcome homecoming for a new 4K digital restoration of a landmark independent film that’s attained cult status.

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Book Review: Europe’s African Loot

May 11, 2022
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Africa’s Struggle for Its Art usefully charts the prequel to current campaigns pressuring for the return of colonial plunder.

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Book Excerpt: Helen Epstein’s “Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During Covid”

May 11, 2022
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Just 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.

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Film Review: The Documentary “The Will to See” — Muckraking, Fierce and Absorbing

May 10, 2022
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Again 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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