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Music
The Dublin post-punk experimentalists bring their dark new album to Brighton Music Hall, with Alan Duggan reflecting on the group’s evolving creative process, headphone-oriented textures, and his personal connection to Boston.
Visual Arts
At New York’s Art Students League, Robert Cenedella’s grotesque group portrait turns the MAGA elite into a gathering of horned grotesques.
Film
Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner asks whether understanding others requires seeing their side—or questioning our own.
Books
Founded as a sensational tabloid with right-wing, racist sensibilities, the city’s white working-class voice tried to go upscale — and lost to Rupert Murdoch’s sleazier competitor.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Whit Griffin’s from “Parting Gifts”
Dance
The Boston dance community is reeling.
Theater
A satirical musical that offends everyone equally hides its real argument until the final minutes.
Television
Mike Flanagan’s ambitious update of Stephen King’s classic pairs a superb cast with social media cruelty and an expanding supernatural world that sometimes overwhelms the story.
Podcasts
Guest host Jessica Khan talks to DJ and broadcaster Kwame Daniels about his immersive live musical performance, “North Star.”
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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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.
Arts Commentary: Superman, Spider-Man, and the American Art of Slugging Nazis
William Nicholas Love’s punch heard round the internet belongs to a long comic-book history of fighting homegrown fascism—from Captain America to “The Clan of the Fiery Cross.”