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Coming Attractions: December 12 through 20 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 4, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project – Celebrating a Great Year in Music (December Entry)

December 6, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s diverse list includes Elton John, Paul and Linda McCartney, Humble Pie, Miles Davis, and Nick Drake.

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Film Retrospective: “Early Kiarostami” — One of Cinema’s Great Humanist Auteurs

September 2, 2022
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Abbas Kiarostami was the most important filmmaker to come out of the New Iranian Cinema movement, which spawned works that became staples in film festivals worldwide from the late ’80s on.

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Theater Review Roundup: Taking in London Stages

March 9, 2011
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Reviews of eight stage productions in London, with two terrific shows noted: American dramatist Bruce Norris’s powerful study of racial relations, Clybourne Park, and Alan Ayckbourn’s 1980 farce Season’s Greetings. Another winner on the West End, the critically acclaimed War Horse, comes to New York next week. By Joann Green Breuer Penelope by Enda Walsh…

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Coming Attractions: February 10 through 26 — What Will Light Your Fire

February 10, 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: Going Beyond the Great Van Gogh Hagiography Machine

July 21, 2024
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Émile Bernard, to his credit, spends much of his life redeeming rather than demeaning his friend.

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Poetry Review: A Provocative Step Out of the Shadows — Poet Anna de Noailles

January 27, 2013
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Literary history credits Rainer Maria Rilke with establishing European poetry’s seminal concern with the duality between inner and outer worlds. Could it be that Comtesse Anna de Noailles was his precursor in this regard? Translator Norman Shapiro and Black Widow Press should be thanked for bringing her back into the discussion.

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Visual Arts Essay: Gods in the Gallery — A Visit to the Museum of Russian Icons

April 10, 2012
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If the icon is both a window into the mystical experience of the painter and a door allowing the saint to come into the believer’s world, am I, unbeliever that I am, hoping to stand in the line of sight, to see what I can intercept of this uncanny conversation?

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September Short Fuses – Materia Critica

September 7, 2021
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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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September Short Fuses — Materia Critica

September 3, 2024
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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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