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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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The Arts Fuse Currents
Music
In Boston, Leonard Bernstein might have sustained Serge Koussevitzky’s bold adventure—and changed the course of American classical music. Today’s Boston Symphony is adrift
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
A pair of eminent lives — celebrated.
Books
Ed Meek’s ability to harness language and cadence is comparable to watching a cowboy harness a wild mustang.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
The week’s poem: Jacqueline Waters’ “Us ‘n’ Nature”
Dance
With autobiographical wryness on the menu, Sara Juli and Alexander David is a match made in performance art heaven.
Theater
A renovated and flexible performance space with unlimited free parking is what every theater company from Boston to Portland dreams of.
Television
“Jury Duty: Company Retreat” is an amusing lampoon with an economic message: it is is pro-small business and anti-private equity.
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
Though Brian Wilson has left us, his enormous musical legacy lives on through a growing series of posthumous CD and vinyl reissues and books.
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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