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
Goose’s two-set blitz at Leader Bank Pavilion dovetailed improvisation with irresistibly catchy rock.
Visual Arts
Artists confront climate change by probing the intelligence, fragility, and resilience of trees.
Film
This documentary about poet Mary Oliver is a moving study of solitude, partnership, and the stubborn power of wonder.
Books
Veiled power in St. Louis –How a secret society turned class war into ritual and never let go.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
The week’s poem: Tracey McTague’s “it’s a scarlet tanager kind of day”
Dance
A sensor-driven dance work probes embodiment, data, and the limits of technological intimacy.
Theater
Arlekin’s high-energy adaptation underscores absurdism’s resonance in an age of conflict.
Television
The “Legally Blonde” prequel “Elle” spotlights a charming Lexi Minetree, but struggles to justify its place in the Blonde-verse.
Podcasts
Host Elizabeth Howard moderates a conversation about whether the arts can provoke, reflect, and sustain cultural dialogue in a period of disruption and transformation.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
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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