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Critical Commentary: A Few Thoughts about John Simon

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

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: arts-criticism, criticism, John Simon

Cultural Commentary: Arts Criticism — An Embarrassment of Whiteness

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?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Artery, arts-criticism, criticism, IRNE, white male critics

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

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

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: arts-criticism, book-reviews

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

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.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Preview Tagged: arts, arts magazines, arts-criticism, bloggers, for the love of arts criticism

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

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

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: arts-criticism, Jesse Green, Negative Criticism, The New York Times, theater-criticism

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

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

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Fuse News, Preview Tagged: arts, arts-criticism, Boston, for the love of arts criticism

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

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

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Artery, arts-criticism, Don Aucoin, free lance theater criticism, The Boston Globe, theater-criticism, theater-reviews, wbur, WGBH

The Arts Fuse Mentorship Program: An Introduction

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

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: arts-criticism, high school students, mentorship, Somverville Arts Council, The Arts Fuse Mentorship program

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

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

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: arts-criticism, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal

Fuse News: The Nieman Foundation Celebrates the Centennial of the Pulitzer Prize – No Kudos for Critics

The hope is that nobody will notice that arts criticism hasn’t been invited to the Pulitzer Prize’s centennial party.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: arts-criticism, criticism, Nieman Foundation, Pulitzer Prize centennial, Pulitzer Prizes

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