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Coming Attractions: November 17 through December 6 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 17, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Book Review: A Fascinating Meditation on Jewish Maps of Time

April 14, 2011
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“Palaces of Time” is a exquisitely illustrated, elegantly written account of the history of Jewish calendars in early modern Europe, as well as a meditation on what they represented — profound reflections of the Jewish experience as it passed through time.

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Judicial Review # 8: Making Sense of the “Assassins”

May 8, 2012
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What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This is our eighth session, a discussion about the Boston University College of Fine Arts production of the 1990 Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical Assassins, which looks at the lives and sensibilities of men and women who attempted (successfully or otherwise) to kill the President of the United States.

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Book Review: Gao Xingjian’s Cosmic Conga Line

September 19, 2008
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By Bill Marx A scene from the world premiere production of Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian’s “Of Mountains and Seas.” “Of Mountains and Seas: A Tragicomedy of the Gods in Three Acts” By Gao Xingjian. Translated from the Chinese by Gilbert C.F. Fong The Chinese University Press, distributed by Columbia University Press Filled with wise-cracking mythological…

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Book Review: “American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank”

December 2, 2017
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Robert Frank had dared overturn the central conceit of the great photographs of the Farm Administration 1930s; that the poor were noble creatures.

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Dance Review: “Postcards from the Front” — A Pandemic Time Capsule

April 20, 2021
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The 51-minute piece represents a digital time capsule. It comprises 16 short episodes — reflections in movement of lives caught inside the pandemic — crafted by dance-maker collaborators.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — January 23

January 23, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Of Madness and Murder

January 10, 2006
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A brilliant new novel explores how the search for his family’s fate during the Holocaust nearly costs a man his sanity. “Götz and Meyer” by David Albahari. Translated from the Serbian by Ellan Elias-Bursac. (Harcourt, 176 pp., $23) By Tess Lewis “We need so little to imagine another world, don’t we?” asks the narrator of…

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Classical Album Review: A Glorious Offering of Unrecorded and Other Rarely Performed Bizet Works

July 7, 2025
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The new “Portrait” package contains five hours of music by Bizet that is mostly unknown to music lovers and music lovers. Plus one of his best operas, a one-act written just before “Carmen”: 1872’s “Djamileh,” which is set in a harem.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — June 2

June 2, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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