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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreOnce you have wrestled with Paul Celan’s poetry, you may find yourself with a changed and sharpened sensibility to image and language.
Read MoreWhat are documentaries supposed do . . . and not do?
Read MoreOliver Sacks’ On the Move is an absorbing, idiosyncratic, often moving memoir.
Read MoreThe New Repertory Theatre is paying homage to Arthur Miller’s centennial with a superb staging of one of the dramatist’s later works, Broken Glass.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Theater is seen as a cleansing illness that sets out to obliterate the illness we blithely accept as health.
Read MoreHypnotized by celebrity and the monied class, our stage critics have become a gaggle of cheerleaders, feckless enough to call Diane Paulus a “visionary.”
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What emerges from even a cursory study of Anna May Wong’s life is that her complexity and depth were rarely acknowledged but she used her intelligence to control the narrative as much as she could.
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Book Review: “Drawing the Line” — How to Respond to “Immoral” Artists
Drawing the Line is grounded in the work of ethicists and psychologists. Its prose is clear and its arguments systematic. But every avenue of investigation only opens up another pathway that ends as a cul-de-sac or doubles back on itself.
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