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
The celebrated producer and guitar master led his trio through an intimate set of atmospheric textures, gospel harmonies and mesmerizing pedal steel.
Visual Arts
Phaidon’s meticulous facsimile revives the playful chaos of Warhol’s 1967 experiment in publishing, though new additions intrude on the original’s aesthetic.
Film
Takashi Yamazaki goes bigger, darker, and more explicitly anti-American in a sequel whose jaw-dropping destruction outmuscles its uneven human drama.
Books
From preserving literary history to championing overlooked voices, the region’s university presses build communities of readers—and give books like mine a home.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Sheila E. Murphy’s “Golden Shovel”
Dance
The Boston dance community is reeling.
Theater
A compelling cast brings warmth, humor, and resolve to Front Porch Arts Collective’s stirring portrait of Black washerwomen fighting for their rights in 1881 Atlanta.
Television
From haunted islands to Gilead and outer space, four series keep the scary season alive.
Podcasts
Ruchira Gupta joins Elizabeth Howard to explore her friendship with Gloria Steinem, the influence of India and Gandhi on Steinem’s activism, and their shared commitment to women’s freedom.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
Schoenberg’s “Ode to Napoleon” and Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s “Eroica” make a forceful pairing in the pianist’s fierce, illuminating new album.
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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