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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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Music
Samuel Adler, now 96 and still composing, has released an updated version of his rich, entertaining, and sometimes gripping memoir of a life well lived.
Visual Arts
Projects like “Polinature” overcome reams of bureaucracy, reinforced by government inertia, in order to improve our environment in admirably cost effective and efficient ways.
Film
Cédric Kahn’s conventional but fiery true-life courtroom drama hones in on French racism and anti-semitism.
Books
Samuel Adler, now 96 and still composing, has released an updated version of his rich, entertaining, and sometimes gripping memoir of a life well lived.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Clay Ventre’s “On the Shores of the Mediterranean”
Dance
It was a mind-blowing experience. Countless times in dance performances a choreographer strives to make movements on stage mimic music. But Dianne McIntyre was dramatizing a much deeper, more organic connection.
Theater
The script is an experiment, a (sometimes) witty lecture on language. But it doesn’t work dramatically.
Television
There are valuable lessons here, but I are afraid that this docuseries will be overlooked among all the more enticing, and sensationalized, witchy watchings.
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.
Food
Flux Gourmet occasionally reminded me of the films of Peter Greenaway, who often juxtaposed the grotesque or disturbing with the beautiful and ethereal.
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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