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Visual Arts Commentary: What Would It Be Like If Women Ruled Israel and Gaza?

October 27, 2025
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Perhaps asking that Judy Chicago’s exhibition not come was a necessary strategy in the short term, to help end Israeli brutality. But the lesson her show teaches us is necessary in the long term, so that Israelis will stop glorifying that very same brutality.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project – Celebrating a Great Year in Music (January Entry)

January 10, 2022
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Arts Fuse writers finish their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s triumphant list includes John Lennon, Cat Stevens, Fela Kuti, Laura Nyro, Judee Sill, and Lou Harrison.

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Book Review: “Great Demon Kings” — A Comet Circling Gas Giants

July 30, 2020
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John Giorno was in the vanguard of what later became the herd: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Warhol, Buddhism, Burroughs, enlightenment, spiritual quests to India, unfettered sex, wild poetry, new technology, experimental forms of expression, queer politics, pot, speed, LSD —  all the household bric-a-brac of the counterculture.

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Dance Review: Emma Cianchi and ArtGarageDanceCompany at Jacob’s Pillow — Bravissima!

August 3, 2024
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Homer’s use of ancient myth is used to show that women, like the sea, have been — and will continue to be — the ecological instigators of growth and transformation.

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January Short Fuses — Materia Critica

January 3, 2023
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Rock Feature: Celebrating “The Wall” — Pink Floyd’s Version

January 4, 2019
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“Five hundred years from now, people will come to that album the way that people come to Wagner and Beethoven. This is a classical piece from our era.”

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Best Books: Notable Volumes, For Better or Worse, in 2015

December 12, 2015
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Our demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.

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Children’s Book Reviews: Books! Books! Books!

December 26, 2023
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Two new kids’ books celebrate books, reading, and illustrators — perfect for the young bibliophile in your life.

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Feature: Quotes for the New Year

January 1, 2019
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Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 13

December 13, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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