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Film Review: “Babysitter” — The Teaches of Peaches

September 7, 2022
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Babysitter tackles the ambiguities of misogyny head-on in a 35 mm sugar rush of magical suburban realism.

Film Review: “All Light, Everywhere” — Darkness Visible

June 10, 2021
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Do you believe your eyes? Should you?

Book Review: “Strange Hotel” — Battling the Inner Critic

February 15, 2020
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Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.

Theater Review: “The Blue Flower” — The Kitsch of Death

December 12, 2010
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The set-up sounds promising, a look back at a time of furious intellectual and artistic ferment, especially with its demand for art that challenges rather than caters to conventional tastes, creativity that revels in distortion, the surreal, the political, and the visceral. The Blue Flower. Music, Lyrics, and Script and Videography by Jim Bauer. Artwork,…

Coming Attractions: December 16 Through January 1 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 16, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Poetry Review: “A Word For It” — Poetry, From out of the Dictionary

December 14, 2017
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Warren Slesinger’s approach to poetry is experimental but skillful as well as entertaining.

Book Review: Europe’s African Loot

May 11, 2022
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Africa’s Struggle for Its Art usefully charts the prequel to current campaigns pressuring for the return of colonial plunder.

Book Review: Richard Gessner — Sounding out Shapes with the Logic of Dreams

November 10, 2017
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Richard Gessner’s head is a cavern piled high with wonders—original images, fresh metaphors, mind-stretching scenarios, and alternate world orders.

Visual Arts: The New Rijksmuseum — A Revelation

May 10, 2013
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Respect for the building and its makers, respect for the historical study of art, respect for the visitor’s relation to the displays. These are qualities that I find in the New Rijksmuseum and missed in the old one.

Book Review: “Dirtbag, Massachusetts, A Confessional” — The Self-Indulgence of Victimhood

March 18, 2023
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Essayist Isaac Fitzgerald sees the world from the perspective of someone who was victimized — in his case, by a physically abusive father and a needy, emotionally abusive mother.

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