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Music
The jam-band veterans mixed ’70s soundtrack classics with sprawling originals, movie-inspired costumes and a giant smoking bong at their Boston Halloween bash.
Visual Arts
In “Long Life, Short Stories,” Marina Abramović turns memories, images, and personal histories into an exploration of identity—and of how a life becomes art.
Film
Director Paweł Pawlikowski’s austere account of the writer Thomas Mann’s 1949 homecoming puts art, political idealism, and family loyalty on trial.
Books
In “The Pope Against Nuremberg,: historian Gerald J. Steinacher examines how Catholic Church officials shielded war criminals—and placed institutional interests above moral accountability.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Mark Lamoureux’s “In Search of Anastasia”
Dance
The Boston dance community is reeling.
Theater
The Huntington Theatre Company’s staging of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation finds fresh complexity in Harper Lee’s moral hero, even as uneven performances and distracting choices diminish its power.
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.
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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.”