arts-criticism

Arts Commentary: Arts Criticism — Stuck in the Bunker

August 21, 2022
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Arts critics are not expected to take the cultural temperature; they are there to reinforce the assumption that the business of the arts in America is … business.

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Critical Commentary: A Few Thoughts about John Simon

November 28, 2019
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Few critics proclaimed that the emperor was naked as a jaybird with as much savvy panache.

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Cultural Commentary: Arts Criticism — An Embarrassment of Whiteness

July 24, 2019
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Can anyone — with a straight face — argue that our largely white critical contingent in Boston is interested in generating hard hitting debate, controversy, and unconventional ideas?

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Arts Fuse Podcast #13: Everything You’ve Wanted to Know About Book Reviews But Were Afraid to Ask

April 9, 2019
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If you’re a fan of the podcast or the magazine, you know that Arts Fuse writers are sworn adversaries of the dreaded algorithm.

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For the Love of Arts Criticism II: Arts Magazines and Bloggers Speak Out

April 6, 2018
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We need more serious, informed, and diverse voices evaluating and reporting on the arts at a time newspapers and magazines are cutting back and/or dumbing down their arts sections.

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Critical Condition: Why Be Negative? Don’t Ask “The New York Times”

March 26, 2018
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If the New York Times can’t make a reasonable case for the need for discrimination rather than salesmanship, we are in real trouble.

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For the Love of Arts Criticism: An Invitation for the Arts Community to Speak Out – and to Act

February 6, 2018
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The publication, its editor, and its over 60 writers believe that the health of arts criticism and the arts community are inextricably intertwined.

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Stage Commentary: “The Boston Globe” to Boston Theater — Drop Dead?

November 28, 2017
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Critics were once seen as the ‘canaries in the mineshaft’ — now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.

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The Arts Fuse Mentorship Program: An Introduction

May 29, 2017
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My thought was that it would exciting to invite high school students from diverse backgrounds to become better educated about arts criticism.

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Cultural Commentary: Things Get Worse at the Boston Globe and Elsewhere — More Arts Criticism Bites the Dust

November 15, 2016
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Many of today’s arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.

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