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Film Commentary: “The Bishop’s Wife” — Realistic Christmas Sentiment

December 15, 2013
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Though disguised in holiday trappings, 1947’s “The Bishop’s Wife” is about human frailty, thwarted ambition, and the humble rewards that accompany doing the right thing.

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Fuse Best of 2013 — Music

December 14, 2013
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Arts Fuse Critics pick the best in music albums this year. Feel free to agree, disagree, and add your own favorites.

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Classical Music Feature: A Beautiful Friendship Between Food and Music — Boston Baroque and UpStairs on the Square

December 13, 2013
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Conductor Martin Pearlman and restaurant proprietor Mary-Catherine Deibel talk about their 35 year-old friendship.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

December 13, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, and dance coming up this week.

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Fuse News: Art Works — The News from the NEA

December 12, 2013
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Observers have often commented that NEA money goes disproportionately to large cultural institutions, and that continues to be true, but those investments are dispersed among disciplines and geographies.

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Dance Remembrance: The Passing of a Denishawn Dancer

December 12, 2013
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Mona Rice, who performed Denishawn and who founded the dance department at the Cushing Academy as well as her own studio in Ashburnham, MA, died in Boston on November 26 at the age of 82.

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Theater Comment: Richard Nelson’s “The Apple Family Plays” — An Edenic Experience

December 11, 2013
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Dramatist Richard Nelson’s language is plain poetry, which passes as prose. It is conversation, as another poet hymned, transmogrified.

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Visual Arts Interview: Doing Ad-Lib Art — Richard Thomas Scott Kicks Off “30 Paintings in 30 Days”

December 11, 2013
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Artist Richard Thomas Scott is currently working on his new Kickstarter project, “30 Paintings in 30 Days.” Sponsors pitch him inspirations (“Challenge me to paint something I’ve never done before!”) and he interprets them on canvas..

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New York Theater Review: “Domesticated” — Morally Untenable

December 10, 2013
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What feels absent in Bruce Norris’s “Domesticated” is some sort of moral center to its familiarly skewed, down sliding spiral of relationships.

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Television Review: “Six by Sondheim” on HBO — A Fabulous Musical Showcase

December 10, 2013
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It’s possible to argue with several of Stephen Sondheim’s selections. Are all of these his best achievements? Yet it hardly matters, because the composer’s tales of his artistic life, culled from probably a dozen interviews, are completely fascinating.

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