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Arts Remembrance: Jack Kerouac at 100 — A Conversation with John Sampas

March 7, 2022
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Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 on March 17. A 2014 conversation about the writer with his literary executor, the late John Sampas.

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Coming Attractions: March 8 Through 22 — What Will Light Your Fire

March 6, 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. The DocYard Spring Series A hybrid…

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Opera Album Review: Marti Epstein’s Resonant, Disturbing “Rumpelstiltskin”

March 6, 2022
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Boston’s 15-year-old Guerilla Opera releases a recording of a fresh take on the old Grimm Brothers tale, to haunting, ritualistic music for four singers and four players.

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Jazz Album Review: “In Common III” — Adventures of an All-Star Rhythm Section

March 5, 2022
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With their shifting textures and compositional variety, the relatively short pieces show the ways — in this case mostly gentle and lyrical — five musicians can fruitfully interact.

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Film Review: “After Yang” – (The problem’s plain to see, too much technology)

March 4, 2022
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Korean writer-director Kogonada’s meditation on life and how it’s lived is dreamy, haunting, profound, and deeply moving.

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Book Review: “Foreverland” — Bound Until Death

March 4, 2022
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Here’s to Heather and Bill, and this lively saga…

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March Short Fuses – Materia Critica

March 3, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Book Review: “The Jesuits: A History” — The Order Continues

March 3, 2022
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Markus Friedrich, a professor of early modern history at the University of Hamburg, has written a scholarly but immensely readable history of the order that will appeal to an audience beyond the Catholic tradition.

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Film Review: At the Berlin International Film Festival — Art on Screen in Many Forms

March 3, 2022
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The Berlin international Film Festival has always been an event where films on art, architecture, and design premiere. This year, as always, the selections were a mixed bag.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Reordering Design Priorities Through Biometric Research

March 2, 2022
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The cognitive architecture approach espoused by the Human Architecture and Planning Institute is applying a welcome new paradigm that responds in a fresh way to the built environment.

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