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Concert Review: The Jerusalem Quartet Balances Lyricism and Vitality

Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions: October 27 through November 12 — What Will Light Your Fire

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

Concert Review: The Jerusalem Quartet Balances Lyricism and Vitality

By Aaron Keebaugh | November 6, 2024

The performance of the Jerusalem Quartet was marked by considerable poise, polish, and personality.

Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: “The Manzanita Loop” — And Its Endless Search

By Helen Miller | November 4, 2024

Beaux Mendes’ work piques the same interest in us as our information-hunger, set loose from any hope of a ground truth, and the endless searching this provokes.

Film

DocTalk: The Boston Jewish Film Festival — Delicately Retrieving the Past

By Peter Keough | November 6, 2024

Memory – elusive and essential, tormenting and inescapable – serves as a theme for several of the documentaries in this year’s BJFF.

Books

Book Review: “Disputing Disaster” — A Fascinating Look at the Search for the Origins of World War I

By Daniel Lazare | November 4, 2024

In tracing the tortuous path that established historians took in trying to get to the bottom of the war, Perry Anderson doesn’t acknowledge leftwing observers who knew perfectly well what was going on at the time.

Poetry at The Arts Fuse

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 31, 2024

This week’s poem: Adeena Karasick’s “On the Uncertain Certain: Negotiating Deepfakes and Shallow Discourse in the Counterpoise of the Unthought”

Dance

Dance Review: Dianne McIntyre’s “In the Same Tongue” — The Dance and the Music Are One

By Jessica Lockhart | October 7, 2024

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

Theater Review: “Pru Payne” — Critical Condition

By Robert Israel | October 22, 2024

This is a well-honed, mostly successful script about the difficulties of making human connections — a drama about seizing the day.

Television

Television Review: From South Korea with Love, “A Virtuous Business” — Sex Toys “R” Us

By Sarah Osman | October 21, 2024

The enormously entertaining “A Virtuous Business” also offers a lesson in nerve and resilience that women everywhere should learn from.

Podcasts

Short Fuse Podcast #69: Talking About “The Museum of Other People”

By Elizabeth Howard | September 10, 2024

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

November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

By Arts Fuse Editor | November 1, 2024

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Food

Film Review: “Flux Gourmet” — Food, Glorious Food

By Peg Aloi | August 23, 2022

Flux Gourmet occasionally reminded me of the films of Peter Greenaway, who often juxtaposed the grotesque or disturbing with the beautiful and ethereal.

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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.