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Music Commentary: The Gershwin Prize and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — Selling Out Quality for Profit

Both the Gershwin Prize and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame exist to glorify popular song. Both, in fairly short order, relaxed their initial high artistic standards.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Gershwin Prize, Lionel Richie, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

THE ARTS FUSE TURNS 15! — Support the Magazine’s Spring Appeal

Please help us bring the arts and culture community roaring back to life by supporting this magazine and its independent coverage.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Commentary, Featured, Preview Tagged: Spring Appeal

Book Review: “The Poetics of Cruising” — Imaginative Acts of Capture

By exploring the historical and artistic significance of cruising throughout poetry, photography, and visual culture, the book produces a rich and exciting topography of queer culture that posits a reflexive relationship of vicarious cruising between “cruising texts” and their consumers.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: crusing, Derek Jarman, Jack Parlett, Nicole Veneto, queer visual culture, sex, The Poetics of Cruising, Todd Haynes, University of Minnesota Press

Visual Arts Review: BarabásiLab — Where Art and Technology Meet, Beautifully

This BarabásiLab exhibition is inspiring because it exemplifies a powerful integration of art and technology.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: art, BarabásiLab, Boston Cyberarts, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, George Fifield, Mark Favermann, technology

Film Commentary: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — The Most Serene Movie in Years

This movie reminds us that — if there is any meaning to life at all — it’s what you bring to it, not what it brings to you.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, alternate timeline, Dan Kwan, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Michelle Yeoh, multiverse movies

Arts Remembrance: Homage to Gilbert Gottfried — One of America’s Most Original Stand-ups

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried’s passing has hit me harder than most deaths of my celebrity faves: it’s a deprivation I can feel in my stomach.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: Betsy Sherman, Gilbert Gottfried

Film Feature: Favorite Fiction Features Directed by Women — An International Poll

The result of critics polled for their Ten Favorite Fiction Features Directed by Women — with the choices of Arts Fuse reviewers.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: David Stewart, Evelyn Rosenthal, Gearld Peary, Peg Aloi, Tim Jackson

Music Commentary: Jazz, Ed Sullivan, and Television

These performances on The Ed Sullivan Show occurred almost exclusively between 1957 and 1964 and that’s not happenstance. They coincide with the only slice of time when different styles of jazz ever got a significant airing on television.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Ed Sullivan, Steve Provizer

Theater Commentary: A Wacky Vision of Violence — “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus”

Finally, a sign that American theater might be facing the world of violence outside of its usual provincial purview.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Taylor Mac

Music Commentary: The Streaming Cesspool

When listeners outsource their listening to streaming organizations, as they commonly do, they are often directed to music that has been selected to fatten up someone’s bottom line, not to enrich and expand their musical lives.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Amazon, Apple, Digital Service Providers, Spotify, Steve Provizer

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