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Visual Arts Commentary: What Would It Be Like If Women Ruled Israel and Gaza?

October 27, 2025
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Perhaps asking that Judy Chicago’s exhibition not come was a necessary strategy in the short term, to help end Israeli brutality. But the lesson her show teaches us is necessary in the long term, so that Israelis will stop glorifying that very same brutality.

Film Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s Broken “Glass”

January 19, 2019
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M. Night Shyamalan turns the trilogy topper he needed to make after Unbreakable and Split into a preposterous group therapy session.

Book Review: “Through a Screen Darkly” — Psychological Strategies for Moving Beyond the Pandemic

January 17, 2022
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I found Through a Screen Darkly to be as enlightening as it is useful: we don’t just read about and invest our emotions in other lives; we learn what to do about our own.

Dance Review: Boston Ballet — Dancing in Time

May 28, 2018
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La Sylphide is full of magic. It might be about magic.

Coming Attractions in Jazz: Autumn Festivals 2012

September 14, 2012
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From the Berkshires to Cape Cod, and with a major stop in Beantown, Massachusetts is the place to be for the autumn jazz festival season.

November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

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

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

August 9, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

Film Review: Tribeca Film Festival 2022 — A Satire from Germany and Two More Fine Documentaries   

June 23, 2022
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I wrote last week that the best films at the Tribeca Film Festival tended to be documentaries. Then I saw a scripted German film that turned out to be an exception.

Doc Talk: Maine Attractions

September 14, 2023
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The vicious, virtual, voyeuristic, and vicarious are on view at this year’s Camden International Film Festival.

The Arts on the Stamps of the World — January 27

January 27, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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