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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 diary of shows attended – good, bad, and indifferent — at this year’s Big Ears Festival, as well as comments on some of the non-musical joys and hassles.
Visual Arts
In light of our current government, the show provides inspiration from the past, and it serves as an invaluable reminder that democracy has never been static, but ever evolving.
Film
Kristoffer Borgli’s A24 feature flirts with social relevance but ends up exploiting a reality it refuses to confront.
Books
Juan Ramón Jiménez’s “Eternities” could be considered a gallery of invisible tongues schmoozing at heaven’s bandwidth.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Michael Franco’s “from The Book of The Night Sky [A BOOK OF MEASURE VOL TWO] SIXTH CIRCUMFERENCE”
Dance
With autobiographical wryness on the menu, Sara Juli and Alexander David is a match made in performance art heaven.
Theater
With its production of “Charlotte’s Web,” WFT has created a lovely, balanced experience — by turns obvious and full of nuance — that offers life lessons and the value of multigenerational sharing.
Television
“Hacks” has been one of the best sitcoms in recent years.
Podcasts
Host Elizabeth Howard explores the importance of books for people incarcerated in Mississippi.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
A diary of shows attended – good, bad, and indifferent — at this year’s Big Ears Festival, as well as comments on some of the non-musical joys and hassles.
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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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