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Book Review: The Unwavering Gaze — Fabritius and Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch”

January 23, 2014
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In Donna Tartt’s much-lauded third novel, Fabritius’ painting “The Goldfinch” and the fleeting nature of, well, everything comes together for a brief and shining moment.

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Fuse Food Commentary: The Fauvists of Cuisine — Test Tube or Taste Test?

December 16, 2013
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Molecular gastronomy, the application of scientific principles to the understanding of domestic and gastronomic food principles is shaking up the food world harder than Shake ‘n Bake.

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Music Feature: Playing For the Planet

November 14, 2011
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In effect, “Playing for the Planet” is an open-ended floating world music festival featuring performers from New England.

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Fuse Movie Review: More Reviews of the Boston Jewish Film Festival

November 13, 2011
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More comments on the films in this year’s Boston Jewish Film Festival, including “Dolphin Boy”, an uneven documentary about dolphins and healing, and “Dusk,” one of the finest films in the festival.

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Short Fuse Review/Interview: Trotsky’s Revolutionary Life

October 2, 2011
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Joshua Rubenstein’s succinct account of Leon Trotsky’s life rescues the Russian radical from a remoteness, positioning him at a useful distance for contemporary readers

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Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part Two — “When the Impossible Really Begins”

April 9, 2020
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Theater is seen as a cleansing illness that sets out to obliterate the illness we blithely accept as health.

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Book Review: “Acting” on the American Silver Screen

January 12, 2017
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Seven essayists in a new anthology take on a daunting task: characterizing styles of acting through the history of American film.

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Visual Arts Review: Junk Yard Kids — Consecrating American Anti-Culture

December 12, 2016
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Could there be a better place to satirize American taste than in the center of Boston’s thriving commercial district?

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Visual Arts Commentary: Expanding Abstraction — What’s So Narrow About That?

July 13, 2017
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Expanding Abstraction is a success because it does what it set out to do: to highlight the visions of New England’s female abstract painters.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — April 6

April 6, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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