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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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The Arts Fuse Currents
Music
The Vijay Iyer Trio creates an atmosphere that becomes so intense listeners are compelled to share the vibe.
Visual Arts
The symbolism here can grate loudly against reality. Those panels extolling the creativity and stoic virtues of the American working class clash with the ways workers were actually treated during the Gilded Age.
Film
It’s wonderful to see the cinema do justice to the magic of this beloved musical.
Books
We should be grateful to Rus Bradburd for giving us an opportunity to laugh as the forces of marketing and ignorance steamroll — ominously and without sufficient kickback — across the academic landscape.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Gilmore Tamny’s “kittencam”
Dance
When the performers finally left the platform, breathing hard, crawling towards us and into the audience, I realized I was seeing something new.
Theater
A story of divorce and self-discovery may be worth telling, but it suffers when it is interwoven with a life narrative that is clearly weighter.
Television
The most recent in an apparently boundless reservoir of Beatles documentaries will “please please” their fans.
Podcasts
Short Fuse host Elizabeth Howard talks to Adam Kuper about his book “The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions”.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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About the Arts Fuse
The Arts Fuse was established in June, 2007 as a curated, independent online arts magazine dedicated to publishing in-depth criticism, along with high quality previews, interviews, and commentaries. The publication's over 70 freelance critics (many of them with decades of experience) cover dance, film, food, literature, music, television, theater, video games, and visual arts. Support arts coverage that believes that culture matters.
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