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Music
Claypool Gold tour turns Leader Bank Pavilion into a shifting laboratory of psychedelia, satire, and virtuosic groove.
Visual Arts
Film
Portraits of a legendary critic and modern Deadheads highlight what’s gained—and lost—when culture resists critique.
Books
Claudia Verhoeven’s “Love and Terror” reframes the Manson murders as a cultural narrative shaped by spectacle, ideology, and America’s enduring fascination with charismatic deception.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: J. Kates’s “The Fourth Cottage”
Dance
Lam Dance Works pairs visiting virtuosity with emerging dancers, revealing both the promise and growing pains of a young Boston troupe.
Theater
Sharon Rothstein’s sharp drama shifts the focus from censorship to the corrosive culture of public shaming.
Television
Apple TV’s reboot leans into slow-burn menace over Scorsese-style excess, with Javier Bardem channeling the original film’s unnerving restraint.
Podcasts
Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Peter Bouteneff about the power of silence in the music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.
Short Fuses
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.
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