Coming Attractions
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.
The Arts Fuse Currents
Music
Ahead of “A Nightmare Before Halloween” at the Paradise Rock Club, the frontman talks collaborative songwriting, animated adventures, and keeping new music in the works while on the road.
Visual Arts
In her haunting installation “Cemetery of the Nameless,” Pınar Öğrenci contemplates displacement, anonymous deaths, and the cruelties that recur across borders and centuries.
Film
A brutally nasty Gotham revenge tale turns a minor Batman villain into the stuff of a major body-horror surprise.
Books
Jonathan Swift’s satire of power, flattery, and human folly feels uncomfortably at home in the age of Trump and artificial intelligence.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: “Sonic Warfare II”
Dance
The Boston dance community is reeling.
Theater
The Huntington Theatre Company’s staging of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation finds fresh complexity in Harper Lee’s moral hero, even as uneven performances and distracting choices diminish its power.
Television
From haunted islands to Gilead and outer space, four series keep the scary season alive.
Podcasts
Ruchira Gupta joins Elizabeth Howard to explore her friendship with Gloria Steinem, the influence of India and Gandhi on Steinem’s activism, and their shared commitment to women’s freedom.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
William Nicholas Love’s punch heard round the internet belongs to a long comic-book history of fighting homegrown fascism—from Captain America to “The Clan of the Fiery Cross.”
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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