Tim Barry

April Short Fuses – Materia Critica

April 9, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Book Review: “Serious Bidness” — Seriously Deranged

July 27, 2016
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Devotees of modern and contemporary art will find this an inscrutable yet irresistible 72-page book.

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

June 17, 2016
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The premise of this intriguing exhibition of African and African American Art is that the revolution will not be televised, nor is it over.

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Film Review: “Hockney” — A Definitive Exploration

May 16, 2016
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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.

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

March 18, 2016
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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.

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

January 23, 2016
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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.

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

June 24, 2015
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A mixed evaluation of the contributions of two New England artists — Joan Jonas and Mark Dion — at this year’s Venice Biennale.

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

June 2, 2015
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What if Alfred Hitchcock had sat out behind his Holmby Hills bungalow, smoking clove cigarettes and writing chick-lit novels?

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Fuse Remembrance: Conceptual Artist Chris Burden — Political But Playful

May 12, 2015
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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.

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

May 12, 2015
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Waxahatchee exuded poise and presence, while delivering lonesome-cowboy epiphanies that speak to their generation’s collective existential shrug.

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