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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
By Aaron Keebaugh The Last Savage delivered good tunes, a delightfully twisted story, and all-around cheer. As a librettist, Gian Carlo Menotti held a critical mirror up to society, often probing the psychological fault lines of his operatic targets. Yet, though he would often question what he saw around him, his works, no matter how…
Visual Arts
Overall, the exhibit offers a fascinating look at photography’s potential to pose challenging questions about who we are, how we are perceived, and how we can alter our self-image to interrogate our own sense of identit
Film
The hefty volume is consistently engaging and informative — a lively, visually appealing guide to one of cinema’s most formidable careers.
Books
Today, Ewa Juszkiewicz stands among the most incisive voices in contemporary art. Each work redefines how women may emerge in painting, charting new territories of meaning.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
The week’s poem: James Loop’s “Nocturne”
Dance
With autobiographical wryness on the menu, Sara Juli and Alexander David is a match made in performance art heaven.
Theater
“Suffs” bounces through a timeline of conferences, direct actions, interpersonal snits, and self-questioning over whether the entire endeavor is really worth it.
Television
While each female protagonist makes some rough decisions, the series never pigeonholes them as villains or saints.
Podcasts
On the cusp of the Academy Awards and the Oscars ceremony, host Elizabeth Howard talks with Aldo Juraidini, design director at Studio Rodrigo, who also directs and curates films for Cinema Rodrigo.
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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