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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.
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Music
A long-shelved session reveals a master blending blues with global grooves and undimmed vitality.
Visual Arts
A focused museum show revisits the radiant ambition—and shifting fortunes—of a Color Field innovator.
Film
David Frankel’s wildly popular fashion fairy tale returns with a biting media critique and Meryl Streep’s cucumber-cool Miranda facing down tech billionaires.
Books
Why democracy cannot escape elites—and how they quietly reshape power from within.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Steven Karl’s “Sarah”
Dance
A Boston-based ensemble blends Indian classical forms with contemporary dance to probe birth, patriarchy, and migration.
Theater
The smoke drifting over the set is a metaphor for the mind-fogging rhetoric of Willy Loman’s phony boosterism. He has been adrift in an American dream that was a lie all along.
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 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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