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Fuse Flash: Newport Folk Festival 2010 review

The 51st Newport Folk Festival ended on Sunday with 35 acts over 3 days. When all is said and done, you could argue that this is no longer a festival about folk music, but two of the elder statesman that appeared this year—Richie Havens and Levon Helm (of The Band fame)—served as an inspiring bridge […]

By: Charles McEnerney Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music Tagged: Andrew Bird, April Smith and the Great Picture Show. Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, arts, Ben Sollee, Blitzen Trapper, Brandi Carlile, Calexico, Charles McEnerney, Dawes, Doc Watson, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Folk, Fuse Flash, George Wein, Horse Feathers, Jay Sweet, John Prine, Levon Helm, Music, New England, Newport Folk Festival, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Punch Brothers, Richie Havens, Sam Bush, Sarah Jorosz, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Steep Canyon Rangers, Steve Martin, The David Wax Museum, The Felice Brothers, The Low Anthem, The Swell Season, Tim O’Brien, Well-Rounded Radio, What Cheer? Brigade

Fuse Flash: Melville Matters — A Pit-Stop in Pittsfield

On August 1st a group of dedicated Melvilleans gathered at the author’s Arrowhead home in the morning to commemorate his 191st birthday by hiking to Monument Mountain. This trip is meant to reenact the hike Melville took on August 5, 1850, which led to his meeting Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose short story collection Mosses from an […]

By: Christopher M. Ohge Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: American, Arrowhead, Berkshires, classic, fiction, Fuse Flash, Herman Melville, MA, Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New England, novel, Pittsfield, writer

Fuse Flash: Postscript on Wordfest at The Mount

By Roberta Silman Although all the statistical material about the demography of Wordfest has yet to be compiled, the word is out that this newest event at The Mount was an amazing success. About 500 people attended events at the grounds of The Mount and nearby at Seven Hills (the fundraising dinner) over the weekend […]

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Fuse Flash, Lenox, MA, Roberta Silman, The Mount, Wordfest

Classical Music Review: A Choral Farewell

By Caldwell Titcomb The Cambridge Community Chorus (CCC) was founded in 1990, and has in the past 18 years grown in size and skill under the leadership of William Ethaniel Thomas. Thomas is retiring from his post and led his farewell concert in Sanders Theatre on May 25 before an enthusiastic audience. For his final […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Featured, Music Tagged: Cambridge-Community-Chourus, Featured, Fuse Flash, Music, Samuel-Coleridge-Taylor, William-Ethaniel-Thomas.-Caldwell-Titcomb

Fuse Flash: Revving up Cultural Tourism

By Bill Marx “Boston is adrift in the brave new competition among big American cities vying for tourist dollars.” Maureen Dezell, WBUR Maureen made that charge back in July 2006 in an article that turned out to be one of the last posts on the late WBUR Arts Online. Now that the quote, along with […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Jazz, Theater, Visual Arts Tagged: arts-and-business-council-of-greater-Boston, Books, Featured, Film, Fuse Flash, Jazz, Julie-burns, phillyfunguide, Theater, Visual Arts

Stage Remembrance: Saluting Paul Scofield — A Titanic Figure in the History of the Theater

By Caldwell Titcomb If you ask the British public who the foremost actors of the 20th century were, you will likely get the names of Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Laurence Olivier (later Lord Olivier), and Sir Alec Guinness. You are not likely to hear the name of Paul Scofield, who died last […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Caldwell-Titcomb, Featured, Fuse Flash, Paul-scofield, Theater

Fuse Flash: Anybody See the Fat Lady? Pollock Matter Affair Still Gropes for that Final Act

Just over a month ago, conventional wisdom had it that the long-running Pollock Matter Affair, one of the most contentious art controversies in living memory (see past posts in Arts Fuse and Anonymous Sources), had finally ground to a halt. Oops. As predicted in The Arts Fuse in November, the debate has found some more […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: ellen-landau, Fuse Flash, IFAR, Matter, paintings, pollock, Visual Arts

Fuse Flash: Cabal? What Cabal? Pollock Experts Move in Small Circles

Only months ago, developments in the Pollock Matter controversies made news around the world (See past Fuse Flash and Anonymous Sources). But the Nov. 28 International Foundation for Art Research [IFAR] symposium, “Are They Pollocks? What Science Tells Us About the Matter Paintings,” drew relatively scant media notice, even though it had been billed by […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Fuse Flash, IFAR, pollock-krasnerfoundation, Pollock-matter, Pollock-matter-affair, Visual Arts

Fuse Flash: The Sun Sheds More Light on “Suspenseful, Comic, Odd” Pollock Event

The New York Sun’s Kate Taylor sheds more light on the Nov. 29 symposium, “Are They Pollocks? What Science Tells Us About the Matter Paintings,” sponsored by the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR). Perhaps less pressed by deadlines, Taylor’s Nov. 30 article provides a more complete summary of the event than reporter Randy Kennedy […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Fuse Flash, Matter Uncategorized, pollock, Visual Arts

Fuse Flash: New York Times Breaks Long Silence on Matter Controversies

The New York Times broke nearly eight months of silence in its Nov. 29 issue to report on a symposium, “Are They Pollocks? What Science Tells Us About the Matter Paintings,” presented the previous night under the sponsorship of the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR). Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock doing his thing

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Fuse Flash, Jackson-pollock, Krasner-Pollock-Foundation, Pollock-matter

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