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