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Visual Arts Review: Arlene Shechet — Restoring the Wonder of Fine Ceramics

August 4, 2015
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In Arlene Shechet’s mischievous hands, the medium’s power as a shape shifter runs wild.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: Dazzling “Architectural Allusions” at the deCordova

August 1, 2015
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This astutely curated exhibit explores the presence of architecture in contemporary sculpture.

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Rock Interview: Talking with Brand X — After Decades, Back on Tour

October 23, 2016
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Brand X was essentially a bunch of top-flight session men who got together to blow off steam, a UK version of Weather Report.

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Book Review: “Just Around Midnight” — A Revelatory Look at Race and 1960s Rock and Roll

September 27, 2016
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Why did rock and roll become white? Music critic Jack Hamilton’s extraordinary new book provides a challenging answer.

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Theater Review: Bread & Puppet’s “Whatforward Circus” — Agit-Prop, But Imaginative

September 8, 2016
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Bread & Puppet Theater’s world of anthropomorphized trees and talking toilets is often funny, sometimes beautiful, and always memorable.

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Book Review: “The Last Days of Stalin” — The Death of a Nightmare

August 31, 2016
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Joshua Rubenstein has penned a compact, chilling account of the demise of the Russian tyrant.

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Album Review: Round-up of Recent Rock Releases

October 8, 2015
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A by no means complete round up of some recent releases in rock, from Keith Richards to the Libertines.

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Theater Review: “Einstein’s Dreams” — Time After Time

October 3, 2015
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Wesley Savick not only does a fine job of adapting Alan Lightman’s text, but in his role as director he squares the circle.

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Short Fuse: Robert Stone’s ‘Fun With Problems’

March 9, 2010
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American author Robert Stone is attuned to the havoc latent in masculine pride and to the hostility likely to break out for no particular reason between males of our species. Fun With Problems: Stories by Robert Stone, Hougton Mifflin Harcourt, 195 pages, $24 Reviewed by Harvey Blume Though one of our prose masters, Robert Stone…

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July Short Fuses — Materia Critica

July 3, 2023
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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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