Coming Attractions
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.
The Arts Fuse Currents
Music
The widening chasm between European and American orchestras is not just a matter of polish, but of style, inheritance, and musical conviction.
Visual Arts
A rare, must-see gathering of Paul Klee’s satirical and prophetic drawings reveals how his angels, dictators, and “degenerate” visions saw Nazi Germany all too clearly.
Film
The punk auteur’s late-career swan song is ragged, witty, and politically sharpened, though not always as cohesive as its ambitions.
Books
Daniel Mason’s latest novel trades the ambition of “North Woods” for a lighter, self-satisfied satire of intellectual life.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Sharon Dolin’s “Ode on the Flat Peach”
Dance
In “Thrikra: Night of Remembering,” Akram Khan’s searing imagery of female ritual and sacrifice is shadowed by what the work chooses not to confront.
Theater
Double Edge Theatre revives its 2015 roaming spectacle of ecological grief, political resistance, and communal art.
Television
Strong performances and sharper realism redefine Little House on the Prairie for a new generation.
Podcasts
Guest host Jessica Khan talks to DJ and broadcaster Kwame Daniels about his immersive live musical performance, “North Star.”
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Spotlight
Few things more clearly attest to the endurance of the human spirit and the drive for creativity than the uninterrupted and unstoppable torrent of brilliant new jazz albums we’ve already seen this year.
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.
Arts Commentary: The Orchestra Gap — Europe vs. the US