Why, when finally caught, didn’t mark Landis land in jail? Here’s the rub. He was a consummate liar and a big-time deceiver but he’s never committed a jailable crime.
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Arts Commentary — Big Money for Artist Activists From the Robert Rauschenberg Estate
It’s important for there to be funds, curators, institutions, and audiences for art that can speak truth to power in unconstrained ways.
Fuse Book Review: The Survival of the Fittest Yarnspinner
Reading “The Storytelling Animal” is akin to listening to a series of terrific humanities lectures given by a polymath professor with a P.T. Barnum streak.
Fuse Theater Interview: Ken Cheeseman on “Bakersfield Mist”
We’re in this virtual reality age now, asking new questions about what art is. What has true meaning and what doesn’t?
Fuse Stage Interview: Antonio Ocampo-Guzman on Directing a Tragicomic “Art”
In “Art,” playwright Yasmina Reza uses theater to explore how powerfully we defend our fears and rationalizations.
Coming Attractions in Theater: January 2012
The year kicks off with few unusual productions — companies are depending on proven New York hits, such as the Yasmina Reza duo, the Tony award-approved “Red,” and “Green Eyes,” though the Tennessee Williams curio tantalizes.
Fuse Theater Review: The Irreverent Passion of “Three Pianos”
In “Three Pianos,” three young actor-musicians unite in their irreverent passion for the music of Franz Schubert.
Visual Arts Review: Flowers as the Work Table for the Imagination
Inescapably erotic, flowers are all about desire. What are they but a glorious exhibition and frame of their own genitals?
Fuse News Commentary: Unemployment and The Artist’s Studio
Hard economic times hit artists in many different ways. One of the least remarked upon is when there is no longer enough cash for the studio. A local artist, who would prefer to remain anonymous, contemplates the end of having a space where creativity and independence can thrive.
Theater Feature: Edward Gorey Takes the Stage
Author Carol Verburg covers a sinfully neglected part of Edward Gorey’s career –- the books on his art deal cursorily, if at all, with his forays into theater as a director, designer, actor, and writer