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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions: July 5 Through 20 — What Will Light Your Fire

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

Musician Interview: Daniel Donato on Bringing Cosmic Country to the Levitate Festival

By Robert Duguay | July 14, 2026

The rising Nashville artist on genre-blending, spiritual energy onstage, and a full-circle live album.

Visual Arts

Book Review: “Hujar: Contact” — The Captivating Tip of a Photographic Iceberg

By Trevor Fairbrother | July 9, 2026

A trove of contact sheets reveals Peter Hujar’s working method, restless eye, and the breadth of an underseen archive.

Film

Film Review: “The Odyssey” — Twilight of the Gods

By Peter Keough | July 15, 2026

Director Christopher Nolan’s ambitious and challenging epic is an ode to the end of civilization.

Books

Book Review: “The Trust Spiral” — A Provocative but Flawed Overview of What’s Wrong with the Media

By Dan Kennedy | July 16, 2026

Walter Lippmann defined objectivity as the fair-minded pursuit of the truth, but all too often it has degenerated into false equivalence. Tara Henley tries to have it both ways.

Poetry at The Arts Fuse

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

July 16, 2026

This week’s poem: Harley Shiner’s “an attachment to pearls”

Dance

Dance Review: The Akram Khan Company — Remembering, Selectively

By Debra Cash | July 10, 2026

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

Theater Review: Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” Finds Its Knife-Edge at Gloucester Stage

By David Greenham | July 14, 2026

This crisp revival turns emotional recoil, backward chronology, and elegant restraint into a sharp study of infidelity.

Television

Television Review: This Time Around, A Wilder Prairie

By Sarah Osman | July 10, 2026

Strong performances and sharper realism redefine Little House on the Prairie for a new generation.

Podcasts

Short Fuse Podcast #90: Frederick Douglass — Our “North Star”

By Elizabeth Howard | July 13, 2026

Guest host Jessica Khan talks to DJ and broadcaster Kwame Daniels about his immersive live musical performance, “North Star.”

Short Fuses

July Short Fuses — Materia Critica

By Arts Fuse Editor | July 1, 2026

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Spotlight

Arts Remembrance: Actor Sam Neill — Charm, Gravity, and a Hint of Mischief

By Peg Aloi | July 15, 2026

Handsome yet not easily typecast, Sam Neill built a quietly remarkable career playing heroes, villains, lovers, weirdos, and everything in between.

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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