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The Arts Fuse Currents
Music
Conductor Robert Treviño celebrates what we might call the dawning of the North American vernacular school; composer Ethan Iverson displays a fascination with instrumental color.
Visual Arts
A look at three exhibitions by New England artists who are concerned about climate change and gun violence.
Film
“Queer” breaks new artistic ground for an artist whose visionary talent is already well-established.
Books
Children will delight in two books that celebrate creativity and imagination, and one that shows a new way of seeing the world through maps.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Ted Pearson’s Selections from “String Theory”
Dance
When the performers finally left the platform, breathing hard, crawling towards us and into the audience, I realized I was seeing something new.
Theater
Both Stereophonic and Babemake compelling drama out of the volatile world of pop music-making.
Television
The most recent in an apparently boundless reservoir of Beatles documentaries will “please please” their fans.
Podcasts
Short Fuse host Elizabeth Howard talks to Adam Kuper about his book “The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions”.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
The opera repertory is so much richer than what gets staged nowadays; many of the most exciting recordings that came my way are of somewhat or entirely forgotten operas from past eras.
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.