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March Short Fuses – Materia Critica

March 3, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Visual Art Review: Krzysztof Wodiczko — The Art of Interrogative Design

January 11, 2022
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Both of these exhibits are examples of the artist as a 21st century shaman — a prophetic, as well as a creative, force.

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Film Review: “Framing John DeLorean” – Back to What Might Have Been the Future  

June 10, 2019
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John DeLorean remains an unwieldy figure whose story is difficult to frame — the new film leaves much unreported and unexplored.

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Book Feature: Poet Liao Yiwu — Memories of the Tiananmen Square “Massacre”

May 29, 2009
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June 3 marks the 20th anniversary of the brutal suppression of the Tiananmen student movement. To mark the occasion, here is the story behind Massacre, an epic poem about the violence that landed its author in jail.

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Book Interview: Christopher Ricks on “The Poems of T.S. Eliot, The Annotated Text.”

May 18, 2016
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Editors Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue are not trying to teach us how to read the poems.

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Coming Attractions: July 25 through August 10 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 25, 2021
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As the age of COVID-19 wanes, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Book Review: Edmund Wilson — A Paleface of a Redskin, Part 1

October 20, 2007
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Those uncomfortable with Wilson’s eccentricities suggest he should be admired, but dutifully, like a Roman statue stuck in the far corner of the lawn.

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Fuse Book Review: The Subdued Yearning of “Guys Like Me” — The Sad-Droll Prose of Dominique Fabre

January 26, 2015
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Very little happens in Dominique Fabre’s books, yet one keeps on reading. because he so genuinely depicts the ordinary lives that most of us lead.

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Coming Attractions: June 29 through July 13 — What Will Light Your Fire

June 29, 2021
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As the age of COVID-19 wanes, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Music Review: Favorite and Least Favorite Shows of 2013

January 1, 2014
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Fuse Music Critic Noah Schaffer’s favorite live music moments from the past year.

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