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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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The Arts Fuse Currents
Music
“Popular music in America is already so formulated and dumbed-down that the fear of AI making it more trivial is probably beside the point.”
Visual Arts
Tastefully colorful and aesthetically pleasing, stylish as well as minimalist, modern yet richly symbolic, the Look of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games got many things right and a few wrong.
Film
The band’s potent, percussive sound was years ahead of its time, as proven by today’s red hot London jazz scene, whose biggest stars are audibly influenced by Cymande.
Books
These designs serve as a forceful testament to the endless possibilities of architecture, to the imaginative power of engineering.
Poetry at The Arts Fuse
This week’s poem: Christianne Goodwin’s “Ophanim”
Dance
At the Pillow, the wonderful Social Tango Project brought the form back to its political and aesthetic origins: it is a dance designed to unify and uplift participants and audiences.
Theater
A relaxed, humane kindness shines through this staging of Shakespeare’s hymn to reconciliation.
Television
Director Takashi Miike’s latest is a killjoy of a film: it doesn’t want to have fun with its material, but it’s impossible to take it seriously.
Podcasts
Elizabeth Howard talks to “Swans of Harlem” author Karen Valby and Lydia Abarca, a prima ballerina and one of the Swans, about the forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas.
Short Fuses
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Food
Flux Gourmet occasionally reminded me of the films of Peter Greenaway, who often juxtaposed the grotesque or disturbing with the beautiful and ethereal.
About the Arts Fuse
The Arts Fuse was established in June, 2007 as a curated, independent online arts magazine dedicated to publishing in-depth criticism, along with high quality previews, interviews, and commentaries. The publication's over 70 freelance critics (many of them with decades of experience) cover dance, film, food, literature, music, television, theater, video games, and visual arts. Support arts coverage that believes that culture matters.