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Coming Attractions: October 30 through November 8 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 23, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Book Interview: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices

November 23, 2018
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The author’s combination of knowledge and experience has resulted in a boisterous chronicle of one of indie rock’s least probable but most luminous and unremitting stars.

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Book Review: “The Quiet Before”– How Our Conversations Set the Boundaries of Our Thinking

August 6, 2022
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This superb book about adventures in radical thinking is less about tracking incendiary ideas to their obscure sources than about the various media used to ferment and transmit them.

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Cultural Commentary: On the National Arts

February 28, 2025
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There’s nothing benign about what just happened on the banks of the Potomac. Indeed, the president’s move makes history of the most nefarious kind: for the first time, the federal government has hijacked what is supposed to be the nation’s premiere arts institution in an effort to explicitly censor voices and viewpoints it deems undesirable.

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Arts Commentary: Perceptions of Putin –“The Wizard” and What Lies Behind the Curtain

November 20, 2023
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How well “The Wizard of the Kremlin” will be received here is an interesting question, especially when the novel is evaluated in the light of Mstyslav Chernov’s visceral documentary “20 Days in Mariupol.”

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Theater Review: New York Round-Up — “Junk,” The Red Shoes,” “The Band’s Visit”

November 17, 2017
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The irony implied by Junk after the curtain goes down is the realization that white collar crime does pay.

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Arts Fuse Podcast #8: New Year’s Edition — Good Riddance, 2018…

January 1, 2019
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Pull up a chair and sit with us a while. We’ll ring out this miserable year together and flip the calendar with, dare I say, some hope?

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Visual Arts: Chopped liver at Woburn Abbey

April 4, 2012
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The world press has announced that a painting of an old man in Woburn Abbey, England, has been newly discovered to be an authentic Rembrandt. Gary Schwartz is incensed that the abbey is practicing such flagrant spin, and that the press feeds it to us so uncritically.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: June 19 through 28— What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 19, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Visual Arts Review: “Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today”

March 3, 2018
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Yes, digital technology can add real value to museum art exhibitions.

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