As the age of Covid-19 finally wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. Please check with venues when uncertain whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Latest in Visual Arts
Visual Arts Commentary: Two Books and a Play — Creating Architectural Literacy
Given the current state of play, any attempts to enrich our knowledge of the built environment are valuable.
Latest in Music
Concert Review: Pianist Jeremy Denk’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” — An Embarrassment of Riches
I have heard many recordings of Bach’s work, but none had the vibrancy of what I heard in Jeremy Denk’s Sunday concert.
Latest in Dance
Dance Review: “The Just and the Blind” — Shackled, Humiliated, Scared
The Just and the Blind sends a needed and powerful message — it is 2022, we need to wake up!
Latest in Television
Television Review: “Bridgerton” — Who Needs the Duke?
Dear reader, do enjoy a second season of Bridgerton’s ornate balls, lush landscapes, and 19th century flirting.
Latest Short Fuses
April Short Fuses – Materia Critica
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Latest Podcast
Short Fuse Podcast #51: Desmond Tutu — Then and Now
Host Elizabeth Howard talks to South African photojournalists Sumaya Hisham and Eric Miller about how their work documents the life and ideals of the late Archbishop and Noble Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu.
Latest in Books
Book Review: On Our Love Affair With Catastrophe — So Long as it is Happening to Someone Else
David Thomson’s meditation on our love of disasters is engagingly allusive, reflective, humane, wide-ranging, and often funny.
Latest in Theater
Theater Review: “AntigonX” — Sophocles Newly Envisioned, Splendidly
AntigonX shows how a theater company’s admirable dedication to innovation lifts new voices and ideas.
Latest in Film
Film Review: “You Won’t Be Alone” — Witchcraft, Forever
This is no run-of-the-mill supernatural witch movie.
Latest in Food
Theater Review: “Seared” — A Recipe for Comedy
Theresa Rebeck’s foodie comedy Seared is more of an amiable appetizer than a substantial entree.
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Theater Interview: The Need to Make Theater in Ukraine Today
We live on the stage of my theater now.
Rock Album Review: Elvis Costello’s “The Boy Named If” — Sly and Mischievous As Ever
For all his verbal ingenuity, rousing chord progressions, and cynical smartass wit, Elvis Costello’s always tucked a raw, beating heart beneath his jaunty shades and devil-may-care grin.
Visual Arts Review: “Displaced: Raida Adon’s Strangeness” — The Remains of Home
Raida Adon rejects political categories because they fail to capture the utter strangeness of lived experience.
Album Review: Club d’elf’s “You Never Know” — Spontaneous Magic
This is the quintessential Club d’elf album, smartly arranged and surprisingly accessible without losing any of the group’s improvisational edges or exotic breadth.
Film Review: “Gagarine” — Everything Is Falling But the Sky
If you’ve never seen a French film with a PG feel, the well-meaning Gagarine might be the one for you.