• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Donate

The Arts Fuse

Boston's Online Arts Magazine: Dance, Film, Literature, Music, Theater, and more

  • Podcasts
  • Coming Attractions
  • Reviews
  • Short Fuses
  • Interviews
  • Commentary
  • The Arts
    • Performing Arts
      • Dance
      • Music
      • Theater
    • Other
      • Books
      • Film
      • Food
      • Television
      • Visual Arts

Tim Barry

April Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Allen Michie, Bill-Marx, Chick Corea, Gerald Peary, Harvey Blume, I Care A Lot, Plays, Proud Songsters, Susan Miron, Tim Barry, Two Legends

Book Review: “Serious Bidness” — Seriously Deranged

Devotees of modern and contemporary art will find this an inscrutable yet irresistible 72-page book.

By: Tim Francis Barry Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: contemporary art, modern art, Richard Bellamy, Serious Bidness, The Letters of Richard Bellamy, Tim Barry

Fuse Visual Arts Feature: “The Woven Arc” at the Cooper Gallery

The premise of this intriguing exhibition of African and African American Art is that the revolution will not be televised, nor is it over.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: African and African American Art, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Gallery, The Woven Arc, Tim Barry, Vera Ingrid Grant

Film Review: “Hockney” — A Definitive Exploration

If you think you know a fair bit about David Hockney’s career already, as I did, be prepared, you’ll learn a lot more.

By: Tim Barry Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: David-Hockney, documentary, Hockney, Randall Wright, Tim Barry

Visual Arts Interview: Artist Rosalyn Drexler at the Rose Art Museum — Reasons to be Cheerful

The prolific and much heralded novelist, painter, and playwright has no shortage of opinions, many of which run contrary to the art-historical party line.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Visual Arts Tagged: Rosalyn Drexler, Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is?, Rose-Art-Museum, Tim Barry

Book Review: Books about Rock n’ Roll — Some Rock, Some Don’t

The success of Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids, has meant an uptick in the number of new rock n’ roll books hitting the racks.

By: Tim Barry Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Bob Mehr, Chelsea Girls, Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys, Dominic Priore, Eileen Myles, Girl In A Band, Jón Gnarr, Kim Gordon, Riot On Sunset Strip: Rock N’ Roll’s Last Stand In Hollywood, The Pirate, Tim Barry, Trouble Boys: The True Story Of The Replacements, Viv Albertine

Visual Arts Review: Local Boy Makes Good at the Venice Biennale; Local Girl Perhaps Not So Much

A mixed evaluation of the contributions of two New England artists — Joan Jonas and Mark Dion — at this year’s Venice Biennale.

By: Tim Barry Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Future Histories, Joan Jonas, Mark Dion, They Come To Us Without A Word, Tim Barry, Venice Biennale 2015

Book Review: A Classic of Cinematic Fiction — “The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty”

What if Alfred Hitchcock had sat out behind his Holmby Hills bungalow, smoking clove cigarettes and writing chick-lit novels?

By: Tim Barry Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Dave Eggers, fiction, Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name, The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty, Tim Barry, Vendela Vida

Fuse Remembrance: Conceptual Artist Chris Burden — Political But Playful

Chris Burden’s distinctive contribution to the art of our time was that he brought politically informed performance art and idea-based sculpture into the mainstream.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Fuse News, Visual Arts Tagged: Chris Burden, Conceptual Art, Light of Reason, Performance Art, Rose-Art-Museum, Tim Barry

Alt-Rock Preview: Waxahatchee, Mitski, and Speedy Ortiz — Girls Just Want to Eat Guitars

Waxahatchee exuded poise and presence, while delivering lonesome-cowboy epiphanies that speak to their generation’s collective existential shrug.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Preview, Rock Tagged: alt-rock, Katie Crutchfield, Mitski, Mitski Miyawaki, Speedy Ortiz, The Sinclair, Tim Barry, Waxahatchee

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Search

Popular Posts

  • The 17th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: A Profusion of Geniuses This is the 17th annual edition of the Francis Davis Ja... posted on January 6, 2023
  • The 17th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll — My Poll Without Me This most recent poll also proves the worth of the poll... posted on January 6, 2023
  • Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Shostakovich, Brahms, and Mackey Under the baton of Andris Nelsons, a listless Boston Sy... posted on January 27, 2023
  • Film Commentary: The Gratuitous Comic Cruelty of “The Banshees of Inishiren” The island scenery is stunning and the acting is fine... posted on January 6, 2023
  • Coming Attractions: January 29 Through February 14 — What Will Light Your Fire As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse cr... posted on January 29, 2023

Social

Follow us:

Footer

  • About Us
  • Advertising/Underwriting
  • Syndication
  • Media Resources
  • Editors and Contributors

We Are

Boston’s online arts magazine since 2007. Powered by 70+ experts and writers.

Follow Us

Monthly Archives

Categories

"Use the point of your pen, not the feather." -- Jonathan Swift

Copyright © 2023 · The Arts Fuse - All Rights Reserved · Website by Stephanie Franz