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Book Review: David Grossman’s Lost Faith

Book Review: David Grossman’s Lost Faith

by Bill Marx “Writing in the Dark” By David Grossman. Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen Farrar, Straus Giroux, 131 pages, $18 Israeli novelist David Grossman fears his country is losing its soul. In this stirring but slim collection essays on the intersection of politics and literature by celebrated Israeli novelist David (“See Under: […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Books, David-Grossman, Featured, Persona Non Grata, Uncategorized, writing-in-the-dark

Visual Arts: Sanitizing Black Is Beautiful

By Gary Schwartz One in so many Western works of art contains an image of a person we would call black. The phenomenon attracts relatively little attention in art history. The Menil Foundation went after it seriously, in a project now inherited by the Warburg Institute. An exhibition in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam offers […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Amsterdam, black, Dutch-and-Flemish-art, Featured, Gary-Schwartz, image-of-black-in-western-art, Nieuwe-Kerk, Schwartzlist, Uncategorized, Visual Arts

Visual Arts: Dutch Art on a European Roll

By Gary Schwartz In 1942, in fulfillment of an essay competition announced in 1936, the Teyler’s Second Society in Haarlem published the winning study on the spread of Dutch painting throughout the world: Horst Gerson, “Ausbreitung und Nachwirkung der holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts” (The diffusion and after-effect of Dutch 17th-century painting). Written in German-occupied […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: -ausbrreitung, Bernard-Aikema, Bert-Meijer, Dutch-17th-century-painting, English-visual-art, Featured, Flemish-art, going-dutch, Lambert-Doomer, Lisa-Jardine, Schwartzlist, Uncategorized, Visual Arts, Willem-Schellinks

PEN World Voices — Day One

by Bill Marx I’m down in New York for PEN American’s annual Festival of International Literature, five days of readings, panels, and discussions on writing around the globe that emphasizes the plight of imperiled authors, particularly those that write in languages other than English. Chinese dissident writer Ma Jian

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, World Books Tagged: bejing-coma, Corpse-walker, Featured, Ma-Jian, PEN-American, Uncategorized, wen-huang, World Books, World-Voices

The Collective Stupidity: Economics as Fiction

By Peter Walsh “But the trouble continued to spread over the country, and there were reports of big concerns, and even banks, in trouble.” — Upton Sinclair, Oil! (1927) No doubt there are still those who think economics is a dull, plodding technical field, akin to accounting, which pale men in green eyeshades practice somewhere […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Adam-Smith, arthur-Laffer, dick-cheney, Featured, Gustave-Flaubert, John-Maynard-Keynes, Karl-Marx, madame-bovary, Oil, Paul-Krugman, peter-Walsh, The-Collective-Stupidity, Uncategorized, upton-sinclair

Music Review: A Most Enterprising Orchestral Program

By Caldwell Titcomb The most enterprising program offered by any of our local orchestras in years took place on February 23 when the New England Philharmonic presented a concert at Boston University’s Tsai Performance Center. Founded in 1976, the orchestra is composed of both professional and non-professional musicians, led by Richard Pittman. The evening offered […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Featured, Music Tagged: George-Tsontakis, Gustav-Holst, Irving-Fine, Music, New-England-Philharmonic, Paul-Wellstone, Richard-Pittman, Rig-Veda, Simmons-College-Choir, Uncategorized

Music Review: Berlin Philharmonic

By Caldwell Titcomb There are many who claim that the Berlin Philharmonic is the greatest symphony orchestra in the world. Whether true or not, this formidable institution visited Boston’s Symphony Hall this week, led by Sir Simon Rattle (b. 1955). From 1980 to 1998 Rattle raised the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to the top […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Music Tagged: Music, Uncategorized

Fuse Commentary: Does Playwriting Have a Future?

Fuse Commentary: Does Playwriting Have a Future?

To mark the dedication of the New College Theatre at Harvard on October 17, a panel of four playwrights gathered to address the question “Does Playwriting Have a Future?” To allay suspense, the answer is yes (whew, that’s a relief).

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Theater Tagged: Adam-Rapp, boston-globe, Caldwell-Titcomb, harvard-university, John-Guare, Melinda-Lopez, New-College-Theatre, Paula-Vogel, Robert-Brustein, Theater, Uncategorized

Anonymous Sources: Pollock Exhibition Will Make Global Splash

A front-page story in the Boston Globe arts section last Sunday reminds us that the Pollock-Matter Affair is alive and well and moving to Boston. One of the biggest art world controversies in decades, this perfect storm of paint, press hype, and cultivated invective swirls around a group of Jackson Pollock-like art works that filmmaker […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged: Anonymous Sources, art-experts.-abstract-expressionist, art-world, boston-globe, case-western-reserve-university, conservation-scientists, disputed-works, expressionist-art, harvard-university, invective, Jackson-pollock, krasner-foundation, lee-krasner, paintings-moving-to-boston, pollock, scientists, Uncategorized, Visual Arts

The Four Sides of the Church Tower of Strängnäs

The Four Sides of the Church Tower of Strängnäs

Cleaning up my desk, I came across the following mysterious note, written on a sheet torn out of a small spiral notebook: “Now I see what you mean with the question you had about the stones outside who is different on every sides. I have asked but no one could give some answer. Maybe they […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Schwartzlist, Uncategorized, Visual Arts

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