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Book Review: “To Walk Alone in the Crowd” — Masterpiece or Mess?

August 6, 2021
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Like Blinky in Pac-Man, the narrator of this provocative but often frustrating and diffuse book gobbles up everything.

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Film Review: “Maestro” — Scenes from a Marriage

December 24, 2023
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“Maestro” is raw and unsparing but also full of understanding, grace, and honesty. This compelling drama brings to life the man and woman behind an extraordinary amount of musical activity, with many of their shortcomings and contradictions fully intact.

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Visual Art Commentary: Boston and Sargent, For Better, For Worse.

December 31, 2023
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Boston’s veneration of John Singer Sargent is awkwardly implicated in the city’s habit of denouncing modern art.

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Artist Remembrance: Brian Wilson — An Appreciation

June 12, 2025
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Brian Wilson’s clear falsetto voice may be stilled but his amazing trove of timeless music lives on.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

October 11, 2013
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Updated. Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.

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Book Review: “Back to the Dirt” — An American Apocalypse in Progress

May 11, 2023
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All of the characters in Back to the Dirt are, in a sense, survivalists, people clinging onto what’s long gone, stockpiling karma for an apocalypse that is already upon them.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 8

March 8, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Jazz Concert Review: Two Paths Converge Again — Sheila Jordan and Steve Kuhn

November 21, 2011
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The Steve Kuhn – Sheila Jordan partnership has been one of the luckiest things ever to happen to either of them, or for us as listeners.

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Theater Reviews: The State of the Union

March 13, 2010
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Artists should “no longer huddle in the confines of a painted box set” but instead join together to “find visible and audible expression for the tempo and psychology of our time” and dramatize “the search of the average American today for knowledge about his country and his world.” – Hallie Flanagan, Federal Theatre Project Stick…

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Letter from New York: Visual Arts — Alice Neel and All the Rest

May 26, 2021
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In New York, museums and galleries are racing toward a new normal, whatever that might be. Most exhibitions that opened earlier in the year will stay open into the summer.

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