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Classical Concert Review: The Belvedere Series plays Sibelius, Grieg, Nazaykinskaya, Vasks, and Shostakovich

Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions: November 10 Through 26 — 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

Classical Concert Review: The Belvedere Series plays Sibelius, Grieg, Nazaykinskaya, Vasks, and Shostakovich

By Jonathan Blumhofer | November 20, 2024

The Belvedere Series is a chamber music group whose mission of bringing the art form to new audiences is matched by an admirable desire to expand and redefine just what the canon is. Even better: that ambition is backed up by top-flight programming, playing, and musicianship.

Visual Arts

Visual Arts Review: “Power of the People: Art and Democracy” — A Timely Response to a Powerful Threat

By Lauren Kaufman | November 18, 2024

Let’s hope the exhibit inspires some critical thinking about the importance and fragility of democracy, both here and around the world.

Film

Film Review: The Celluloid Version of “Wicked” Defies Gravity

By Sarah Osman | November 20, 2024

It’s wonderful to see the cinema do justice to the magic of this beloved musical.

Books

Book Review: “The Absinthe Forger” — Betrayal Among Worshippers of the Green Fairy

By David Daniel | November 12, 2024

There was, after all, something Faustian in the prospect of an elixir that promised to reveal glimpses of the divine while simultaneously burning pits of fire in the seeker’s brain.

Poetry at The Arts Fuse

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

November 14, 2024

This week’s poem: Charles O. Hartman’s “Logjam”

Dance

Dance Review: Faye Driscoll’s “Weathering” — New York City Pompeii

By Debra Cash | November 17, 2024

When the performers finally left the platform, breathing hard, crawling towards us and into the audience, I realized I was seeing something new.

Theater

Theater Review: “Mindplay” Is Child’s Play

By Robert Israel | November 19, 2024

Because this “play” relies on audience participation, Vinny DePonto selects inevitably befuddled men and women from the audience on which to demonstrate his mental prowess.

Television

Television Review: “Hot Frosty” — It’s No Snow Job

By Sarah Osman | November 16, 2024

“Hot Frosty” is dumb all right, but it’s also endearing, funny, and cute.

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.

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.