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CriticIsm Commentary: The Welcome Buccaneers of Arts Criticism

January 13, 2014
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“Criticism will always have the force of the child in the story about the emperor’s new clothes, because there will always be naked emperors who everybody says are wearing today’s Crown Jewels.” — Eric Bentley

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Coming Attractions: February 19 through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

February 13, 2017
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming weeks.

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Festival Preview: WasFest — Nothing If Not Multifarious

June 18, 2023
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“Everyone involved was committed to doing something different and eclectic,” WasFest curator Don Was said. “It’s a mixed bag, and that’s what we wanted.”

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Poetry Remembrance: John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” — Forever Young at 200

September 29, 2020
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Keats is comfortable in that ambiguous space between reality and the imagination, and you will find no finer example of Romantic poetry when he fuses them in the language of an erotic dream.

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Book Review: The Librarians of Timbuktu — Action Heroes for Cultural Preservation

June 23, 2016
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Former Newsweek bureau chief Joshua Hammer has documented a timely story of cultural heroism.

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Dance Commentary: Facing Mekka

November 5, 2004
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A new dance show by Rennie Harris serves as a valuable response to MTV’s commercialization of hip hop.

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Film Review: An Insouciant Double Bill — Rita Hayworth meets Fred Astaire

August 4, 2018
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Womanizing Astaire grasps that Rita is the loveliest catch of all, and a keeper, in this musical treat.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 29, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Coming Attractions: October 9 through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 9, 2022
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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.

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Jazz Week 2013: After a tumultuous year, Boston looks ahead

April 26, 2013
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In the wake of the horrors of last week, Jazz Week 2013 comes as almost an act of defiance, an insistence that life will go on in all sectors of the Boston community.

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