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
To appreciate Sonny Rollins is to marvel at the casual ordinariness of his blazing genius.
Visual Arts
An MFA exhibition traces how Amsterdam’s Jewish community shaped the artist’s imagination, revealing a rich interplay of daily life, biblical narrative, and cultural exchange.
Film
Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells star in a bittersweet new drama about grief, love, and second chances.
Books
A powerful new book exposes how the fear of Black liberation shaped the American legal order—and how the legacy of the slave patrol endures today.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Lisa J. Sullivan’s “Nocturne”
Dance
Lam Dance Works pairs visiting virtuosity with emerging dancers, revealing both the promise and growing pains of a young Boston troupe.
Theater
“The Maids” uses video and fantasy with purpose, while “Kenrex” turns a grim murder story into empty showmanship.
Television
Tatiana Maslany anchors a cluttered but compulsively watchable thriller about cam culture, murder, and a very stressed-out mom.
Podcasts
Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Peter Bouteneff about the power of silence in the music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
This substantial collection of the writings of classical music critic Michael Steinberg evokes a time when critics educated, provoked, and helped build cultural life.
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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