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The Boston Globe

Gone Baby Gone — Sebastian Smee Going to the “Washington Post”

More alarming signs that the Boston Globe‘s arts section is shedding talent.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Sebastian Smee, The Boston Globe, Visual Arts

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

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 Film Review: A Blazingly Good “Spotlight”

Given the precipitous Internet-driven decline of print journalism over the past decade, Spotlight vividly reminds us of the clout of a local newspaper speaking truth to power.

By: Glenn Rifkin Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Boston Archdiocese, Child Abuse, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Spotlight, The Boston Globe, Tom McCarthy

Fuse Commentary: Arts Criticism Isn’t Free — Support The Arts Fuse!

Those who care about the future of American arts and culture should financially support this magazine and other valiant efforts to articulate the significance of the arts.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: Artery, Arts Fuse, arts-criticism, criticism, fundraiser, Summer, The Arts Fuse, The Boston Globe, wbur, WGBH

Fuse Theater Views: “The Bridges of Madison County” — A Matter of Inconsistency

Nothing is going to be done about the appearance of the review in the Boston Globe. The reasoning is that, because the newspaper didn’t send its own critic, it hadn’t broken the ban. This is inconsistent and disingenuous.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Fuse News, Theater Tagged: The Boston Globe, The Bridges of Madison County, Williamstown-Theatre-Festival

Fuse Commentary: The Boston Globe Disses The Lowell Folk Festival

In 2011, the Boston Globe characterized the Lowell Folk Festival as “a celebration of diversity.” This year, the floundering newspaper isn’t interested in celebrating anything but itself.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Fuse News, Music Tagged: Artery, arts coverage, Arts Summer Weekend, Lowell Folk Festival, The Boston Globe, wbur, WGBH

Fuse News: A Critic’s Responsibility?

Generally in New England we’re outspoken about nearly everything – politics, social issues, sports – so why not the arts?

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Fuse News, Music Tagged: arts, criticism, Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe

Critical Commentary: Speaking Truth to Waning Power

Nowhere do I say in the piece that The Arts Fuse is all good and everyone else is all bad.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: arts-criticism, Geoff-Edgers, The Boston Globe

Theater Commentary/Review: A Not So Dumb “Month in The Country”

Given the Russian writer’s modernist pedigree, should director/playwright Richard Nelson and translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky be punished for putting some “unevenesses” into their staging of Turgenev’s finest play, “A Month in the Country”? I think not.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: A Month in the Country, Dan Aucoin, Ivan Turgenev, Richard Nelson, The Boston Globe, Williamstown-Theatre-Festival

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