Coming Attractions
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
The performance of the Jerusalem Quartet was marked by considerable poise, polish, and personality.
Visual Arts
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
Memory – elusive and essential, tormenting and inescapable – serves as a theme for several of the documentaries in this year’s BJFF.
Books
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
This week’s poem: Adeena Karasick’s “On the Uncertain Certain: Negotiating Deepfakes and Shallow Discourse in the Counterpoise of the Unthought”
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
This is a well-honed, mostly successful script about the difficulties of making human connections — a drama about seizing the day.
Television
The enormously entertaining “A Virtuous Business” also offers a lesson in nerve and resilience that women everywhere should learn from.
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.
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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.