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Jazz Book Review: “Blue Rhythm Fantasy” — Illuminating the Swing Era

February 8, 2017
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This is more interesting than a sweeping survey, it is a portrait of an African-American musician whose career peaked in the Swing Era.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 12

March 12, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

April 12, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Coming Attractions: May 20 through June 5 — What Will Light Your Fire

May 20, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Film Feature: Talking to the Artists Who Made “Porcelain War”

December 19, 2024
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The film is a testament not just to the resilience and courage of Ukrainians in the face of brutal aggression and the threat of genocide but to the power of art to transcend tragedy and injustice.

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Book Review: “The Quiet Before”– How Our Conversations Set the Boundaries of Our Thinking

August 6, 2022
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This superb book about adventures in radical thinking is less about tracking incendiary ideas to their obscure sources than about the various media used to ferment and transmit them.

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Short Fuse Interview: Susan Jacoby, Robert Ingersoll, and Keeping the Secular Tradition of American History Alive

February 8, 2013
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Robert Ingersoll is all but unknown in our time. Susan Jacoby sets out to answer why. One answer she proposes is that it was generally assumed that the reactionary expressions of religion Ingersoll contended against would simply fade away over time, to be replaced by education, broader culture and scientific reason.

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Visual Arts: Deaccession — The Deadly Sin

May 18, 2010
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By Gary Schwartz On February 21, 2007, I had the honor of delivering the Third Annual Lecture of the Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance at the Getty Research Institute. My subject was “Rembrandt’s paper trail,” but that is not the subject of this column. What keeps coming to mind is an exchange…

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Book Review: “Fairness and Freedom” — A Study in Binocular History

April 14, 2012
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“Fairness and Freedom” is a cultural/political/social history of the United States and New Zealand in one volume. To the general reader’s likely question, “Why would anyone put the two in one book?”, author’s answer and binding theme is that both former British colonies are open societies with liberal democratic systems, but with a difference.

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Book Review: “All the Single Ladies” — Essential Reading

March 28, 2016
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All the Single Ladies is an ambitious book, packed with so many interesting people and ideas that I often wanted to hear far more about each.

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