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Film Review: “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael” — Rebellion Has an Expiration Date

February 21, 2020
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Pauline Kael capitalized on counterculture snobbery, the pecking order of the oh-so enlightened.

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Visual Arts Review: “Fashioned by Sargent” — Round Two

December 8, 2023
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Was John Singer Sargent just a talented flatterer of his wealthy patrons or was there more to him?

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Film Review: “The Lesson” — The Tutor, the Writer, His Wife, and Her Son

July 8, 2023
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“The Lesson” is well-crafted, infused with nervy suspense and an almost Gothic sense of unease.

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Dance Review: Gauthier Dance — Distinctive Exuberance

July 8, 2016
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As a group they are exuberant, personable, immediate, which in turn makes even the meh choreography palatable.

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Book Review: On Our Love Affair With Catastrophe — So Long as it is Happening to Someone Else

April 1, 2022
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David Thomson’s meditation on our love of disasters is engagingly allusive, reflective, humane, wide-ranging, and often funny.

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Theater Review: At the Shaw Festival — An Exquisite “Saint Joan”

July 16, 2017
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In this superb production, George Bernard Shaw’s version of Wonder Woman is far from a comic book savior.

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Film Review: “Let Them All Talk” — Angst of Many Flavors

December 30, 2020
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The film feels amateurish in the most complimentary Stendhalien sense: created in a spirit of play, rather than a sweaty effort to advance a studio agenda.

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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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Fuse Coming Attractions: April 17 through 26— What Will Light Your Fire This Week

April 17, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Visual Arts Review: Indelible Chinese Shadows

December 3, 2012
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Cut out of translucent and colored ox or donkey hide (sorry, PETA), they are foot and a half tall, two-dimensional figures operated by rods set up behind a slightly canted screen.

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