Coming Attractions
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
Jeff Beck is a bigger guitar hero than you realized.
Visual Arts
A trove of contact sheets reveals Peter Hujar’s working method, restless eye, and the breadth of an underseen archive.
Film
At the Tribeca Film Festival, two dramas stood out among the narrative films—stark, street-level tales of addiction and a wintry queer love story turned murder mystery set on a Canadian ship.
Books
Jeff Beck is a bigger guitar hero than you realized.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Keith Newton’s “THE RIOTS”
Dance
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
Playwright Miranda Austen ADEkoje revisits an 1895 gathering of Black women activists, uncovering the tensions, ambitions, and humanity behind a historic coalition.
Television
Strong performances and sharper realism redefine Little House on the Prairie for a new generation.
Podcasts
Host Elizabeth Howard moderates a conversation about whether the arts can provoke, reflect, and sustain cultural dialogue in a period of disruption and transformation.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
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.
Arts Commentary: The Kennedy Center and the Boston Symphony Orchestra — A Tale of Two Crises
A court-ordered reset in Washington and a self-inflicted rupture in Boston expose deeper failures of leadership, transparency, and trust.