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Book Review: “Queer Lens” – Let the Record Show

September 5, 2025
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By Trevor Fairbrother The Queer Lens project made me think about queer culture and camera culture as distinct phenomena that began in the Victorian era: each was a manifestation of modernity. The latest exhibition that Paul Martineau has curated at the J. Paul Getty Museum is titled Queer Lens: A History of Photography and features…

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 13, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, and dance that’s coming up this week.

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Visual Arts Review: A New Fashion Statement from the MFA — Consumer Dreaming and Catwalk Preening

May 12, 2024
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This midsized MFA project is a solid bid for summer foot traffic from the fashionista demographic.

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Opera Album Review: A Gold-Medal Recording of a Baroque Opera about the Ancient Greek Olympics

March 22, 2024
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The shamefully belated release of the first recording (1992!) of “L’olimpiade,” a major work by Hasse (a renowned contemporary of Handel and Vivaldi), featuring some of the best singers of the day, including male soprano Randall K. Wong.

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Concert Review: A Tale of Two Masses in B minor

March 3, 2017
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These are troubling times which make us realize how vital music — especially Bach — is to our souls, to our spiritual wellbeing.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 31, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

February 8, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, author events, and theater for the coming week.

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Film Review: “Pacifiction” — Paradise Misplaced

March 16, 2023
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A lot seems to be going on beneath the surface, but the surface itself is so beguiling, with the scenery, sea, and sunsets rapturously shot on digital cameras by cinematographer Artur Tort, and with the alternately lulling and agitating soundtrack, that the urgency tends to lapse.

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Winter 2023 Appeal

November 28, 2023

Dear Arts Fuse reader: Who else does what we do? Independent, critical coverage of the arts, writing that articulates art’s value to society through advocacy, news, and debate. You wanted more, and we delivered. We now have a poetry editor who selects a weekly poem and a reviewer of children’s books. The magazine’s refreshed, attractive design is…

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Father’s Day Feature: My Father the Former Communist

June 17, 2018
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Having a father in prison meant radical changes in our everyday lives.

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