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Music
Stripped of trip-hop trappings, Beth Gibbons’ fragile voice commanded through a ghostly filter effect as she sang with edgy emotion, peaking in the tagline, “How can it feel this wrong?”
Visual Arts
Reluctant to explain the meaning of her art, Leonora Carrington chose to let the magic and mystery of her inner life reveal itself through the imaginary animal/human creatures and fantastic landscapes of her paintings.
Film
Director Victoria Verseau’s Trans Memoria is an oneiric, brutally frank meditation on the pains and rewards of transgender surgery.
Books
Kudos to Delacorte Press for publishing not one but two middle-grade books about the dangers of book banning.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Calla MacGillivray’s “ORINOCO FLOW!”
Dance
The five performers with Down syndrome danced along with three professionally trained dancers without disabilities — and they all looked wonderful.
Theater
Despite all the Boston Lyric Opera pageantry and talent, “Carousel”‘s trip to the 21st century turns out to be bumpy.
Television
The current state of Hollywood — terminal banality — is concerning. But that’s what makes it so perfect for a dose of acidic satire.
Podcasts
In this engaging conversation, Elizabeth Howard speaks with Sonya Chung, the director of Film Forum in New York, about the intersection of film and literature, the relevance of the Oscars, and the impact of independent films.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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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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