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Visual Arts Review: Italian Futurism — The Future That Wasn’t

May 9, 2014
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Futurism, as the Italian proponents conceived of it, ended up not having much of a future. But its practitioners had some good days at the beginning.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — September 25

September 25, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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August Short Fuses — Materia Critica

August 2, 2023
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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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Film Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2019

December 23, 2019
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Our demanding critics choose the best (and the most disappointing) films of the year.

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Festival Review: Solid Sound 2022 — Fun For All

June 2, 2022
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Solid Sound is like a family picnic for stylistically open-minded musicians and fans alike within the brick-mill infrastructure of MASS MoCA.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World —October 12

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

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Poetry Review: Nobel Prizewinner Vicente Aleixandre—The Poetics of Kissing

May 27, 2013
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This translation of “Poems of Consummation” is important for several reasons, one of which is that the 1977 Nobel prizewinner—despite the award—has long been insufficiently preeminent in our Anglo-American view of twentieth-century Spanish poetry.

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Book Interview: Jewish-American Writer Bernard Malamud at 100 — Appreciating the Beauty of the Ethical

March 23, 2014
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“Bernard Malamud is the great sentence-maker, the great craftsman, and the sheer quality of those sentences has never perhaps been given its complete due.”

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Jazz CD Review / Appreciation: Jane Ira Bloom’s “Sixteen Sunsets” – Jazz Mastery, Undiluted

January 14, 2014
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In nearly 78 minutes of intensely concentrated playing, Jane Ira Bloom’s album offers some of the greatest ballad performances I have ever heard.

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Book Review: “New England Bound” — Slavery and the Puritans

June 8, 2016
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It is not surprising that Wendy Warren strains to find words to “comprehend the rank tragedy that resulted from enslavement.”

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