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The time is overdue for a serious discussion of what is happening (or not happening) in Boston-area theaters. Just don’t expect to see anything in our sheepish mainstream media.
Read MoreIn this episode of the Short Fuse, host Elizabeth Howard and Editor-in-Chief and founder of the “Arts Fuse,” Bill Marx, discuss the vital role arts commentary and criticism play in nurturing an open and democratic society
Read MoreThe journalistic value of blathering out weekend tips to the ears of the comfortable in a social media world awash with likes is dubious.
Read MoreArts 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.
Read MoreFew critics proclaimed that the emperor was naked as a jaybird with as much savvy panache.
Read MoreCan 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?
Read MoreIf you’re a fan of the podcast or the magazine, you know that Arts Fuse writers are sworn adversaries of the dreaded algorithm.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreIf 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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Arts Commentary: The Declining State of the Art of Arts Journalism
Theater critics, film reviewers, A&E editors, and arts columnists have been stripped from our dailies and weeklies. Why should you care? Oscar Wilde warned that an age without criticism is “an age that possesses no art at all.”
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