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 Wilkes-Barre doomgaze artist talks creative block, bare-bones recording, and why he prefers to play in shows with musicians that don’t sound like him.
Visual Arts
In Boston and Hanover, new works by Alan Michelson and Kent Monkman challenge the myth of the vanishing Native—and the Cyrus Dallin bronze that enshrined it.
Film
Nicolas Winding Refn’s baffling, vibe‑driven film trades narrative for fetish—and asks whether you still care what the critics think.
Books
Dennis Cooper’s “transgressive” reputation obscures his deeper project: language as moral instrument, and the victim rather than the predator as the true subject.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Brendan Lorber’s “Sag Harbor in the morning”
Dance
In “Thrikra: Night of Remembering,” Akram Khan’s searing imagery of female ritual and sacrifice is shadowed by what the work chooses not to confront.
Theater
Double Edge Theatre revives its 2015 roaming spectacle of ecological grief, political resistance, and communal art.
Television
Strong performances and sharper realism redefine Little House on the Prairie for a new generation.
Podcasts
Guest host Jessica Khan talks to DJ and broadcaster Kwame Daniels about his immersive live musical performance, “North Star.”
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
Few things more clearly attest to the endurance of the human spirit and the drive for creativity than the uninterrupted and unstoppable torrent of brilliant new jazz albums we’ve already seen this year.
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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