Arts Fuse Editor
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Single All the Way is a Hallmark Christmas movie with two gay men inserted in, which means they have just as little chemistry as the straight couples in these films do.
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Two new Chicago-connected releases explore combinations of flute, cello, percussion and more to good effect.
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As it chronicles the rise and fall of the titular Von Dutch brand, the series tries to exploit nostalgia and true crime at the same time.
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Boiling Point is as suspenseful a film as anything else I’ve seen this year.
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There are three key words in the title: “music,” “change,” and “everything.” At its best, the series convincingly shows how they are linked. Other times, it embraces too much of one at the expense of the other two.
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Stephen Sondheim was the most influential musical-theater artist of the modern era. His death leaves a permanent hole in the art form and in the hearts of his fans.
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Let’s hope The Sex Lives of College Girls is given a second season because, much like Sex Education, it is a reminder of the value of the real at a time Big Tech and others are trying to pull us into living and loving in the virtual.
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At 80 years old, Bob Dylan sounds imperturbable and fierce.
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Visual Arts Commentary: NFT Art — Disinterested Creativity or an Investment Strategy?
Clearer heads conclude that there will be plenty of cultural space for both physical art and this highly monetized new digital art.
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