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The Arts on Stamps of the World — September 8

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

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Film Review: “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” — Act Now!

April 9, 2023
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For these eco-warriors, it’s payback time: they didn’t start this fight, but they are determined to finish it.

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Theater Commentary: A Modest Proposal — Boston Theaters, Junk Your Seasons!

June 10, 2020
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Today’s spirit of protest calls for risk and innovation, dissent and defiance. Our timid stages fall disgracefully short of reflecting that iconoclasm.

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Arts Commentary: The Boston Symphony’s 2019-20 Season Announcement

April 1, 2019
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The fact is, the BSO’s 2019-20 season doesn’t risk enough and lacks a true spirit of adventure.

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March Short Fuses – Materia Critica

March 1, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief bursts of criticism.

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Film Reviews: A Dispatch from the 25th Boston Underground Film Festival (Part 2 of 2)

March 25, 2025
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We return to my coverage of the 25th annual Boston Underground Film Festival, our own little local celebration of oddballs, freaks, and celluloid weirdos of all sorts.

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Film Series Reviews: “Still Life with Hong Sangsoo” — Tingly Comedies of Discomfort

April 20, 2023
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Whereas Hong Sangsoo’s filmography abounds with coming-of-age stories featuring young characters embarking on their romantic/sexual and professional lives, two of these three films spotlight middle-aged characters, with one specifically dealing with disease and mortality.

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Music Interview: YouTube Algorithm Causes Major Disruption to Jazz Video Guy, Bret Primack

February 18, 2023
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Bret Primack explains how YouTube has basically nuked the Jazz Video Guy channel. And the same thing is happening to other content creators.

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Book Review: “The Artist in the Counterculture” — California Dreamin’

February 17, 2023
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If historian Thomas Crow’s goal is to explain how these rebels of the counterculture reshaped American art, he is at least partly successful.

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Television Review: “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” — Episodes 5-8

December 14, 2021
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The series gives a fine overview of its selected artists, and it does an even better job of introducing the turbulence, torments, treasures, and trippiness of 1971 to audiences who didn’t live through it (or who can’t remember much of it, for whatever reason).

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