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Film Review: “A Reckoning in Boston” — Muckraking and Heartbreaking

A Reckoning in Boston demonstrates that fifty years after the bussing-era failures to improve the lives of Black people, there is, in James Rutenbeck’s telling words, “No justice, no truth, no reconciliation.”

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A Reckoning in Boston, Boston, City Hall, Independent Film Festival of Boston, James Rutenbeck

Arts Commentary: MFA Boston — at 150

There have been times in the MFA’s past when it hasn’t lived up to its educational mission, when it has pandered to the whims of the wealthy — particularly its fat cat benefactors.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

Arts Fuse Podcast #14: Dialectics of Politicized Art, or the Intellectual History of White Men in Cars

The Arts Fuse welcomes a new character to its extended universe. Deanna Marie Costa, an editor and critic at the magazine.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, AOC, Art and Culture, Boston, criticism, green new deal, politics

Visual Arts Commentary: Now + There — Reinterpreting Public Art in the Civic Environment

An organization dedicated to making Boston a vibrant, contemporary art city.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston, Kate Gilbert, Mark Favermann, Now + There, public art

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

Visual Arts Commentary: A Tale of Two Bridges

Two stories about how a public process, because of politics, can make it very difficult, and costly, to connect two points.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Commentary, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston, Cambridge, London, Longfellow Bridge, Mark Favermann, The Garden Bridge

Music Interview: Bishop Harold Branch celebrates 62 years of “Down Home Gospel”

Bishop Harold Branch’s decades of supporting the gospel scene have not been ignored..

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music Tagged: Bishop Harold Branch, Boston, gospel, Russell Auditorium, Skippy White, WRCA

Fuse Interview: Talking to Rising Comedian Michael “Myq” Kaplan

“There comes a decision-making process where some of the jokes, I’m like, I’m glad I never have to tell that one again.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Interview Tagged: Boston, Great Scott, Michael “Myq” Kaplan, stand-up comedy

Music Review: Madonna in Boston — Queen of a Three-Ring Circus

Madonna’s show made for spectacular eye and ear candy. But what was it all about? That’s where things got a little hazy.

By: Brett Milano Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Rock Tagged: Boston, Brett Milano, Madonna, Rebel Heart

Film Review: “Black Mass” — Oh, What Could Have Been

Rarely is an actor so completely miscast in such a pivotal role.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Billy Bulger, Boston, Johnny-Depp, Mass, Paul Dervis, Scott Cooper, Somerville, Whitey-Bulger

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