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
Mike Rivard’s rotating collective has blended dub, jazz, Moroccan trance, funk, electronica, hip-hop, and prog into its heady stew.
Visual Arts
Jubilant collages, TV motifs, and immersive rooms celebrate 25 years of Black artist Derrick Adams’s inventive practice.
Film
Part two of a run-down of live-action narrative shorts. As usual for the IFFBoston, the quality is high, with intriguing subject matter and technical polish.
Books
In conversation, Andrew Krivak discusses inherited grief, immigrant roots, and the novel’s unusual form.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Serena Solin’s from “The Squint”
Dance
A Boston-based ensemble blends Indian classical forms with contemporary dance to probe birth, patriarchy, and migration.
Theater
Two productions set out to reinvent Andrew Lloyd Webber’s back catalog. Only one of them succeeds.
Television
A sharp, locally grounded dramedy that captures the contradictions of suburban Southern California — and the steep cost of survival for young women.
Podcasts
Host Elizabeth Howard explores the importance of books for people incarcerated in Mississippi.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
A diary of shows attended – good, bad, and indifferent — at this year’s Big Ears Festival, as well as comments on some of the non-musical joys and hassles.
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.
Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part One