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@callinamagician.bsky.social on #dracula: Like other Eastern European artists, director Radu Jude is at his best channeling his anger through dark comedy.
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Film Review: Radu Jude's "Dracula" - Suck it to Us - The Arts Fuse
Like other Eastern European artists, Radu Jude is at his best channeling his anger through dark comedy.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
@callinamagician.bsky.social on #dracula: Like other Eastern European artists, director Radu Jude is at his best channeling his anger through dark comedy.
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Michael Ullman on Mode Records' elegant reissue of 1957's "Pepper Adams Quintet": The baritone saxophonist was clearly a generous soul, as well as a stunningly accomplished jazz musician.
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Jazz Album Review: Pepper Adams Quintet - The Baritone Voice of Hard Bop Excellence - The Arts Fuse
Baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams was clearly a generous soul, as well as a stunningly accomplished jazz musician.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Michael Ullman on Mode Records' elegant reissue of 1957's "Pepper Adams Quintet": The baritone saxophonist was clearly a generous soul, as well as a stunningly accomplished jazz musician.
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Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumhofer, Noah Schaffer, Matt Hanson, Tim Jackson, Peg Aloi, Peter Walsh, Blake Maddux, and me submit our recommendations for what coming up in the arts for the next two weeks.
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Coming Attractions: November 9 Through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire - The Arts Fuse
Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumhofer, Noah Schaffer, Matt Hanson, Tim Jackson, Peg Aloi, Peter Walsh, Blake Maddux, and me submit our recommendations for what coming up in the arts for the next two weeks.
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Robert Israel writes that "Kim’s Convenience" (at The Huntington Theatre Company) offers a genial comic glimpse of an immigrant family’s struggle for dignity and an economic foothold.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Robert Israel writes that "Kim’s Convenience" (at The Huntington Theatre Company) offers a genial comic glimpse of an immigrant family’s struggle for dignity and an economic foothold.
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The themes of #lizardboy, the musical, writes Martin Copenhaver would land more squarely—and more powerfully—with a teenage audience than they can with those of us who can only recall such a time in our lives.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The themes of #lizardboy, the musical, writes Martin Copenhaver would land more squarely—and more powerfully—with a teenage audience than they can with those of us who can only recall such a time in our lives.
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For Michael Marano, #DieMyLove is a healthy bitch-slap, its shock encouraging young folks to dismiss the bullshit about relationships too many other movies have hawked over the past decade and a half or so.
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Film Review: "Die My Love" - A Film of Disturbing Brilliance - The Arts Fuse
"Die My Love" is a healthy bitch-slap, its shock encouraging young folks to dismiss the bullshit about relationships too many other movies have hawked over the past decade and a half or so.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
For Michael Marano, #DieMyLove is a healthy bitch-slap, its shock encouraging young folks to dismiss the bullshit about relationships too many other movies have hawked over the past decade and a half or so.
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Jon Garelick will be contributing an occasional feature that looks at current jazz albums of interest. Here is his debut column.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Jon Garelick will be contributing an occasional feature that looks at current jazz albums of interest. Here is his debut column.
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Steve Provizer on what #cryptocurrency will mean for artists: America's financial establishment is being hijacked in a car driven by a greedy, vengeful man, his industry cronies, and a doormat Congress celebrating in the back seat.
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Cultural Commentary: Cryptocurrency and Artists, A Match Made in Heaven? Or Hell? - The Arts Fuse
Our financial establishment is being hijacked in a car driven by a greedy, vengeful man, his industry cronies and a doormat Congress cowering meekly in the back seat.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Steve Provizer on what #cryptocurrency will mean for artists: America's financial establishment is being hijacked in a car driven by a greedy, vengeful man, his industry cronies, and a doormat Congress celebrating in the back seat.
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This week's poem: Christie Towers' "from Timestamp: A Liturgy of the Hours"
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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse
This week's poem: Christie Towers' "from Timestamp: A Liturgy of the Hours"
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November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This week's poem: Christie Towers' "from Timestamp: A Liturgy of the Hours"
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This week's newsletter has flown the coop. My editorial is on a book that argues hate has been, and can be, “a driving force for a collective pursuit of change.”
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November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This week's newsletter has flown the coop. My editorial is on a book that argues hate has been, and can be, “a driving force for a collective pursuit of change.”
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Robert Israel on "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of #samshepard" (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social).The biographer puts too much emphasis on the dramatist's louche life, neglecting to provide much analysis of the value of his stage work, particularly on whether it will endure.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Robert Israel on "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of #samshepard" (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social).The biographer puts too much emphasis on the dramatist's louche life, neglecting to provide much analysis of the value of his stage work, particularly on whether it will endure.
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Betsy Sherman supplies previews of a few of the obscure gems and curios that make up Harvard Film Archive's huzzah to #ColumbiaPictures, which turns 101 this year.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Betsy Sherman supplies previews of a few of the obscure gems and curios that make up Harvard Film Archive's huzzah to #ColumbiaPictures, which turns 101 this year.
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Michael Londra on the compelling bio "The Key to Everything: May Swenson, A Writer’s Life" (@princetonupress.bsky.social): Optimistic, a canny survivor, relentless, genderfluid—poet May Swenson described herself as “I am one of those to whom miracles happen."
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Book Review: Putting Words into Dreams - Poet May Swenson - The Arts Fuse
Optimistic, a canny survivor, relentless, genderfluid—poet May Swenson described herself as “I am one of those to whom miracles happen."
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November 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Michael Londra on the compelling bio "The Key to Everything: May Swenson, A Writer’s Life" (@princetonupress.bsky.social): Optimistic, a canny survivor, relentless, genderfluid—poet May Swenson described herself as “I am one of those to whom miracles happen."
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Jason M. Rubin on " #BrianWilson - Live at the Roxy Theatre." The disc was released 25 years ago, the first solo live album by the #beachboys leader and certified pop genius. An expanded (and welcome) reissue of this landmark recording is hitting the street.
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Rock Album Feature: "Brian Wilson Live at the Roxy Theatre" - A Welcome Expanded Reissue - The Arts Fuse
While one hopes that never-before-released live shows are found and released, it is nice to revisit the start of Brian’s Wilson’s second-chance career.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Jason M. Rubin on " #BrianWilson - Live at the Roxy Theatre." The disc was released 25 years ago, the first solo live album by the #beachboys leader and certified pop genius. An expanded (and welcome) reissue of this landmark recording is hitting the street.
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Scott McLennan on the late #donnajeangodchaux. She was throwing down with her voice, just as the guys in the #gratefuldead were with their instruments.
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Arts Remembrance: Donna Jean Godchaux - She Brought Soul and Grace to the Grateful Dead - The Arts Fuse
Donna Jean Godchaux changed the Grateful Dead – adding a Southern accent and feminine energy to this rough-hewn psychedelic troupe – and the Grateful Dead changed Donna Jean Godchaux – elevating her f...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Scott McLennan on the late #donnajeangodchaux. She was throwing down with her voice, just as the guys in the #gratefuldead were with their instruments.
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Lauren Kaufmann on "Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention" at the #PortlandMuseumofArt. The exhibit highlights the interplay between Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan and the modern poets who became her friends, supporters, and in some cases, patrons.
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Visual Arts Review: A Painter Among Poets - Grace Hartigan’s "Gift of Attention" - The Arts Fuse
The exhibit highlights the interplay between Grace Hartigan and the circle of modern poets who became her friends, supporters, and in some cases, patrons.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Lauren Kaufmann on "Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention" at the #PortlandMuseumofArt. The exhibit highlights the interplay between Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan and the modern poets who became her friends, supporters, and in some cases, patrons.
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@pkeough1.bsky.social finds glimmers of optimism in two documentaries at this years's #bostonjewishfilmfestival: "All God’s Children" and "The Stamp Thief."
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Doc Talk: The Boston Jewish Film Festival 2025 - Festival of Light - The Arts Fuse
The Boston Jewish Film Festival supplies some glimmers of optimism.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
@pkeough1.bsky.social finds glimmers of optimism in two documentaries at this years's #bostonjewishfilmfestival: "All God’s Children" and "The Stamp Thief."
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Scott McLennan writes that Club d'Elf is as much a state of mind as it is a band that blends unshakeable rhythmic groove with improvisational experimentation, leading listeners to that spot where trance meets revelation.
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Concert Review: Club d’Elf - Where Trance Meets Revelation - The Arts Fuse
If any out-there band deserves the opportunity to be in-here, Club d’Elf is it.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Scott McLennan writes that Club d'Elf is as much a state of mind as it is a band that blends unshakeable rhythmic groove with improvisational experimentation, leading listeners to that spot where trance meets revelation.
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For Mary Sherman, the works of legendary gallery owner, curator and poet #MarioDiacono were a guide – a guide to see and think deeply about words and images.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
For Mary Sherman, the works of legendary gallery owner, curator and poet #MarioDiacono were a guide – a guide to see and think deeply about words and images.
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Bob Israel on Manual Cinema's "The 4th Witch," presented by @artsemerson.bsky.social. Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" serves as a springboard for a memorable new vision by these inventive, multimedia theater artists.
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Theater Review: Manual Cinema's "The 4th Witch" - A Hallucinatory Vision of War and Witchcraft - The Arts Fuse
Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" serves as a springboard for a memorable new vision by these inventive, multimedia theater artists.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Bob Israel on Manual Cinema's "The 4th Witch," presented by @artsemerson.bsky.social. Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" serves as a springboard for a memorable new vision by these inventive, multimedia theater artists.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Jonathan Blumhofer writes that a new recording of Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5 from the #BergenPhilharmonicOrchestra and #edwardgardner captures much of what makes the composer’s writing in it sound so fresh #chandos
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Classical Album Review: Nielsen Clarinet Concerto, Symphony No. 5 - The Arts Fuse
A new recording of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 5 from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner captures much of what makes the composer's writing in it sound so fresh.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Jonathan Blumhofer writes that a new recording of Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5 from the #BergenPhilharmonicOrchestra and #edwardgardner captures much of what makes the composer’s writing in it sound so fresh #chandos
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Jon Garelick asks: Who would have thought that the most exciting keyboard feature by #herbiehancock on Wednesday night at the Boch Center Wang Theatre would be a keytar rave-up? artsfuse.org/319393/conce...
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Jon Garelick asks: Who would have thought that the most exciting keyboard feature by #herbiehancock on Wednesday night at the Boch Center Wang Theatre would be a keytar rave-up? artsfuse.org/319393/conce...
Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse
The week's poem: Shira Dentz's "Foretold"
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October 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Paul Robicheau and other music critics at The Arts Fuse pay homage to the late #jackdejohnette.
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Arts Remembrance: Jack DeJohnette - As Much a Colorist as a Drummer - The Arts Fuse
Jack DeJohnette – who died this week at age 83 of congestive heart failure – lorded over his entire kit with loose but incisive strokes to tightly tuned drum heads and cymbals.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Paul Robicheau and other music critics at The Arts Fuse pay homage to the late #jackdejohnette.
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