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Arts Feature: The 10 Best Music Documentaries of 2024 — Along with Others Worth Watching and a Few Disappointments

December 21, 2024
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If there’s a documentary on this list that you want to see and it isn’t readily available, I’d suggest following it on social media or checking if its website has an email list that will announce future screenings or streamings.

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Film Review: “Filmlovers!” — A Valentine to the Movies and the Cinema-Going Experience

July 22, 2025
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This piquantly enjoyable docufiction emphasizes how movie spectatorship encourages empathy and understanding.

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Theater Review: “Two Strangers” — A Confectionary Romance

June 1, 2025
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“Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” succeeds as a fun variation on the “buddy” story. The show sometimes ladles on the sugary frosting, but it’s a pretty tasty dessert.

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Visual Arts: A Museum By Design — Transformed Cooper-Hewitt Museum Reopens

December 27, 2014
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At their best, the exhibitions at the restored, renovated, and expanded Cooper-Hewitt Museum explore the history and culture of design and decorative arts with transcendent panache.

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Coming Attractions: January 14 through 30 — What Will Light Your Fire

January 14, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — September 16

September 16, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Visual Arts Review: Terry Winters — A Distinctive “Structure of Things”

October 1, 2016
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Something clicked when I visited the MFA’s diminutive but brilliant new exhibition of Terry Winters’ works on paper.

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Book Review: “Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness” — No Way Out?

March 10, 2023
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Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness has scholarly value but, given its diminution of human agency, it will not significantly impact real life public conversations about ending white privilege and dealing with the complexities of cultural appropriation.

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Arts Remembrance: Peter Matthiessen – The Last Frontiersman

April 19, 2014
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The late writer Peter Matthiessen was one of the last great frontiersmen, one of the last great travelers taking voyages of discovery.

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Book Review: “Kraft” — A Pitch Perfect Satire of Neoliberal Dreamin’

November 17, 2020
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A powerful allegory for our techno-crazed, consumption-addicted, soul-crushing times.

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