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TV Review: “Master of None”—Aziz Ansari’s Masterful New Show

November 17, 2015
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Master of None is an exercise in emotionally intelligent storytelling that delves into the real lives of its characters.

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Dance Review: Companhia Urbana de Dança — Hip, Hipper, Hippest

April 19, 2016
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Companhia de Dança of Rio de Janeiro applies a suggestion of narrative to the standard revue format..

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Music Interview: Chatting with Liz Stokes of The Beths

July 24, 2023
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Lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist Liz Stokes talked about the making of The Beths’s most recent album, why the band isn’t called The Lizzes, and if fans can expect to ever hear her play trumpet.

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Visual Arts: Rembrandt’s Imagination

January 23, 2010
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I envision Rembrandt with chalk or pen always at hand, sketching from life and imagination constantly. This is also how he taught his pupils, who like him also produced numerous drawings related and unrelated to paintings or prints. Why do so many experts disagree? By Gary Schwartz In an earlier column I illustrated a large…

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Culture Vulture: Reading Jung’s “Red Book,” Part One

November 23, 2009
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An examination of the the recent publication and translation (ninety years after it was begun) of C. G. Jung’s confessional meditation “The Red Book.” The volume stands in a select company of books that exerted an enormous influence on social and intellectual history even while it remained unpublished. THE RED BOOK by C.G. Jung. Edited…

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 12

March 12, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Film Review: “The Taking” — Appropriating Monument Valley?

May 5, 2023
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Most of this documentary is so beautiful the temptation is to switch off the preachy, didactic soundtrack and just watch and watch.

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Jazz Album Review: Following the Lessons of the Master, “Thumbscrew – The Anthony Braxton Project”

July 27, 2020
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The album’s set of pieces not only revels in the spirited formal experimentation of the great musician’s music, but its expressive urgency as well. Read More

Opera Review: A Decolonized “Magic Flute” by the Isango Ensemble

November 8, 2019
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What if you took canonical Western works and reimagined them from an African perspective?

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Concert Review: Dancehall pioneer Tiger Returns — A Blast From the Reggae Past

September 9, 2014
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The evening was not just a pleasurable throwback to ’80s digital reggae riddims, but drew on the misogyny and homophobia that dominated reggae during that era.

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