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Book Review: “Mike Nichols: A Life” — Portrait of a Protean Artist

March 4, 2021
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This nearly 600-page text is a closely detailed, comprehensive portrait by a biographer riveted, as many of us are, by his charismatic subject.

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Critical/Theater Commentary: Slapping Sleeping Media Outlets A “Woke”

July 15, 2020
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Taking action on even a modest number of these suggestions will undoubtedly shake up the current puerility of much of American theater criticism.

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Book Review: Colum McCann’s “Apeirogon” — Showing a Path Forward

December 21, 2020
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Although some of Apeirogon is painful, this novel can inspire you to think differently and even to act, which is surely welcome after this horrible year in which we have all felt so helpless.

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Visual Arts: Ambergris and Alchemy — A Pilgrimage to John Singer Sargent’s “Fumée d’Ambre Gris”

January 27, 2013
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At times I leave off my avid samplings of one entrancement after another in a great museum. Instead, I make a pilgrimage dedicated to a single work, such as John Singer Sargent’s intoxicating woman in white in “Fumée d’Ambre Gris” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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Visual Arts Review: Letter from New York – Goya, Grief, and Grievance

March 16, 2021
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Museums, now reopened in New York, are trying to coax visitors into their galleries. With two exhibitions, it’s working.

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Book Review: “Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey” — One of the Cinema’s Most Profound Seers

April 20, 2025
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For fans of director Stanley Kubrick, this enhanced biography may be the most thorough and readable volume on one of the cinema’s most profound seers.

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Anything But Ordinary

October 25, 2006
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“The Children’s Hospital” by Chris Adrian. (McSweeney’s) By Adrienne LaFrance Chris Adrian looks familiar because he looks ordinary. Dressed simply in khakis and a wrinkled, white Oxford shirt, he speaks just loudly enough to be heard and smiles only with his mouth closed. His calm restraint– like that of a monk or a surgeon– naturally…

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Coming Attractions: April 10 Through 25 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 10, 2023
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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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Book Review: Green’s Garden of Delights

September 30, 2010
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David Green’s stories make for compelling literature—the kind of reading which poses a challenge today because of its exploration of psychological complexity, enigma, confusion, and suspense. The Garden of Love and Other Stories, by David Green. The Pen & Anvil Press, $14.95 Reviewed by Christopher M. Ohge. The romantic poetry of William Blake first came…

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Arts Commentary: All Is Not Copacetic for the Fine Arts in the Berkshires

January 30, 2020
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Despite the growing number of artists in the Berkshires, there seems to be an effort, among large cultural institutions and the major media, to pretend that they are not around.

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