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Book Review: “Art and Faith” — Creating Revelatory Beauty

February 9, 2021
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Art and Faith should be widely read — its delightful wisdom and clarity underlines our culture’s desperate need to make things new.

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Classical Album Review: Chamber Orchestra of New York plays Ottorino Respighi’s “Concerto all’antica” and “Ancient Airs and Dances, Suites nos. 1-3”

February 8, 2021
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There are some smartly colored and well-handled performances here, but it’s hard to get past the recording’s unsatisfactory acoustics.

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Film Review: “I Blame Society” — Bringing Out Your Inner Serial Killer

February 8, 2021
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I Blame Society may put off some enlightened neoliberals, but it is a fun little B-movie with killer insight and attitude to spare.

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Shelter in Place Attractions: February 7 through 23 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

February 7, 2021
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In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Preservation, Two Cases of To Be or Not to Be

February 7, 2021
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Today’s increasingly heated argument about architectural preservation revolves around discerning which pieces of the past are worth saving, which buildings are valuable to our present and future.

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Arts Remembrance: Christopher Plummer, 1929-2021

February 6, 2021
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It is difficult to think of a harder-working actor or one more devoted to his craft.

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Film Review: “The World to Come” — A Haunting Female Frontier Romance

February 5, 2021
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The excitement of these films – perhaps the word frisson would not be amiss – is that these women are envisioned as explorers in the land of Eros, map-makers of new terrain, discovering and inventing love as they go.

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Book Review: “Renato!” — Novelist Eugene Mirabelli, Creator of Inwardness

February 5, 2021
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What a pleasure it is to revel in this work, which expresses enduring values in such an original way.

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Book Review: The Glory of “Full Dissidence”

February 5, 2021
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Full Dissidence is not just about the corruption of professional sports. It is a fierce polemic that will alter the way you look at America.

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Film Review: “Son of the South” — The Civil Rights Movement, Served on Wonder Bread

February 4, 2021
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What we need is to see the world through the eyes of Black activists, even though that might be frightening to White audiences reluctant to deal with the unmediated truth.

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