Search Results: quotes

Book Review: The Ecstasy and Agony of WBCN

September 24, 2013
Posted in , ,

I found myself most interested by the fact that so many of the changes that took place at WBCN made absolute sense to me, even if I had an aesthetic beef with them.

Read More

Book Review: “Rocking the Closet” — Queering the Mainstream

January 6, 2020
Posted in , , , ,

Audiences knew (or at least thought they knew) something was up, and that something was what made these performers unique.

Read More

Theater Review: “Top Girls” — As Brilliant and Harsh As Ever

May 1, 2018
Posted in , ,

Top Girls’ conflicts and political themes seem more relevant than ever in this excellent production.

Read More

Book Review: “Jazz With a Beat: Small Group Swing, 1940-1960” — Told With an Edge

February 27, 2024
Posted in , , ,

Shouting and honking saxes made visceral appeals to the emotions and the body. For jazz critics, this kind of theatricality degraded what should have been ‘Art.’

Read More

Book Review: Exile, Violence, and Cunning — Two Russian Authors After the Invasion of Ukraine

November 25, 2022
Posted in , ,

“It’s easy to see why we have such a lousy life and such great literature.”

Read More

Film Review: “The Sadness” — They’re Coming to Get You, Karen

June 30, 2022
Posted in , ,

The Sadness is an especially brutal film about societal collapse and how public health crises like COVID-19 amplify whatever savage impulses lie dormant within us.

Read More

Jazz Review: Jimmy Giuffre — Through the Lens of Dave Douglas and Riverside

April 21, 2014
Posted in , ,

In moments like these, the band Riverside captures the Jimmy Giuffre ideals of sonority and counterpoint — where even the drums act as another complementary linear voice.

Read More

Visual Arts Review: Ian Hamilton Finlay — Revolution Without a Manifesto

July 1, 2014
Posted in , ,

His art’s sunny, unhurried elegance, so at odds with its message, suggests that Finlay is taking a Swiftian rhetorical stance.

Read More

Book Review: “Maybe This Time” — The Fragility of Personal Identities in Surreal Worlds

November 7, 2011
Posted in ,

The nine tales found in “Maybe This Time” chart the unnerving psychological transformations of its characters. Its style forces us to reconsider our ways of reading and our childlike dependency on narrative authority.

Read More

The Arts on the Stamps of the World — April 22

April 22, 2018
Posted in ,

Revisiting a former Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Read More

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives