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Music
“For me, having new material to play — that’s the best. If you’re on tour, you are presenting a new album and people are psyched because you are playing some of that stuff live.”
Visual Arts
A look at three exhibitions by New England artists who are concerned about climate change and gun violence.
Film
The aim is to evoke, critically, a period when adventure, for men, was about running away to Cuba or going on Kerouac-inspired road trips.
Books
“What Comes from the Night’ testifies to John Taylor’s complex bond with nature, a generous alliance that includes moments of introspection and melancholy.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Jess Mynes’ “Heavy Pedestal”
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
A staging of “The Thanksgiving Play” needs to be rooted in the dramatist’s demand that the script shock: it should traumatize the ancestors of the perpetrators.
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.
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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.