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Visual Arts Review: “Ways to Baffle the Wind” — Exploring Humanity and Nature at Mass MoCA

January 29, 2022
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Yto Barrada’s intent in this show is not to warn about environmental catastrophe so much as to explore where culture and the natural world meet.

Film Review: “Swallow” — Unknowable Appetites

March 14, 2020
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This carefully-crafted chamber piece revolves about a woman whose compulsion to eat non-edible things is both fascinating and disturbing.

Visual Arts Review: “Lucian Freud Self-Portraits” — Pictures of a Cool Narcissist

February 29, 2020
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I recommend this show for Lucian Freud’s highly polished craftsmanship, but his wry game of psychological hide-and-seek is not all that satisfying.

Fuse Film Review: “Elstree 1976” — Hearing from the Minor Gods in the “Star Wars” Pantheon

May 12, 2016
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The director approaches his Star Wars interviewees with obvious glee, but he’s also on a quest.

Coming Attractions: October 9 through 23 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 9, 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.

Film Review: “Blame” — A Crucible of Teen Drama

January 8, 2018
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I love the way Blame captures the kaleidoscopic emotional experience of being a teenage girl.

Visual Arts Review: “Pretty Raw” at the Rose Art Museum

March 8, 2015
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Nothing takes center stage except the canvases by Helen Frankenthaler, which invite comparisons to every other piece in “Pretty Raw” and demolish the majority of them.

Cultural Commentary: Cryptocurrency and Artists, A Match Made in Heaven? Or Hell?

November 6, 2025
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Our financial establishment is being hijacked in a car driven by a greedy, vengeful man, his industry cronies and a doormat Congress cowering meekly in the back seat.

Visual Arts Review: “Historias: Latin American Works on Paper” — An Invitation to Expand Your Horizons

September 12, 2013
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The breath of contemporary Latin American visual art, as shown in this splendid exhibition, is vast.

Poetry Review: Songs from a Bone Window — Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.’s “After the Operation”

March 3, 2025
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For poet Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., the neurological is also archeological.

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