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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
“Evolution” is a major statement from master musicians building on a strong tradition and taking it forward into our own generation with passion and elegance.
Visual Arts
In this exhibit, curator Robin Hauck celebrates ten Boston-area artists who resist the relentless distractions that contemporary life imposes on all of us.
Film
Both films are intermittently entertaining and display a high level of craft. They’re also blithely mediocre: mainly flash and filigree, vacuous at their center.
Books
Mario Vargas Llosa’s final novel is a sweet, light story about art and idealism—and its ever-present opposite, cynicism.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Nidia Hernández’s “Darkness”
Dance
The question was how well these mid-20th century works would hold up and how, with the passing of time, those dances would look to both familiar and fresh eyes.
Theater
Meeting today’s challenge—harnessing the performing arts to prepare the next generation to sustain democracy—requires broader collaboration not only with schools and community partners but among TYA companies themselves.
Television
Considering its hard-to-fault premise, Peacock’s “The ‘Burbs” should be a lot more fun than it is.
Podcasts
In this episode, Elizabeth Howard speaks with Bsrat Mezghebe about her debut novel, “I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For.”
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
Meeting today’s challenge—harnessing the performing arts to prepare the next generation to sustain democracy—requires broader collaboration not only with schools and community partners but among TYA companies themselves.
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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