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Extensive and eclectic, writes David D'Arcy, #DOCNYC offers a valuable sampling of documentary films for the coming year. These favorites -- "FUGS FILM!," "Arrest the Midwife," and "True North" -- are worth searching out.
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January 4, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Extensive and eclectic, writes David D'Arcy, #DOCNYC offers a valuable sampling of documentary films for the coming year. These favorites -- "FUGS FILM!," "Arrest the Midwife," and "True North" -- are worth searching out.
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James Kates writes that many of the poems in Cornelia Veenendaal's new collection, "Sky of Sudden Changes," take in the world through a distinctively painterly eye for scenes and sketches. Blazevox [Books]
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January 4, 2026 at 1:04 PM
James Kates writes that many of the poems in Cornelia Veenendaal's new collection, "Sky of Sudden Changes," take in the world through a distinctively painterly eye for scenes and sketches. Blazevox [Books]
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Two critics, Scott McLennan and Paul Robicheau write on The Disco Biscuits, who chose Boston as its base for a three-night New Year’s run that unfolded in three different venues.
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January 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Two critics, Scott McLennan and Paul Robicheau write on The Disco Biscuits, who chose Boston as its base for a three-night New Year’s run that unfolded in three different venues.
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Peter Walsh on #olivialaing’s novel "The Silver Book" (@fsgbooks.bsky.social), set mostly in 1975, combines a gay romance with a literary text about the dangers of resurfacing fascism, a discourse on 20th-century avant-garde film-making, and a political thriller.
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January 3, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Peter Walsh on #olivialaing’s novel "The Silver Book" (@fsgbooks.bsky.social), set mostly in 1975, combines a gay romance with a literary text about the dangers of resurfacing fascism, a discourse on 20th-century avant-garde film-making, and a political thriller.
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Each month, our arts critics fire off a few brief reviews. Peter Keough, Allen Michie, Mark Favermann, Bill Littlefield, and Editor Bill Marx send up a few critical flares for January.
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January Short Fuses — Materia Critica - The Arts Fuse
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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January 2, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Each month, our arts critics fire off a few brief reviews. Peter Keough, Allen Michie, Mark Favermann, Bill Littlefield, and Editor Bill Marx send up a few critical flares for January.
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Martin B. Copenhaver on the American Repertory Theater production of the musical "Wonder." The show aspires to make us more empathetic and to help us “choose kind.”
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January 2, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Martin B. Copenhaver on the American Repertory Theater production of the musical "Wonder." The show aspires to make us more empathetic and to help us “choose kind.”
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Happy New Year! Here is the magazine's first poem of the year: Ish Klein's "Global Amnesia"
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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse
This week's poem: Ish Klein's "Global Amnesia"
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January 1, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Happy New Year! Here is the magazine's first poem of the year: Ish Klein's "Global Amnesia"
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@callinamagician.bsky.social on Park Chan-Wook's black comedy about the inhumanity of corporate culture, "No Other Choice": South Korea looks as if it is steadily transforming into a home more fit for robots — manning the sawmills of capitalism — than humans.
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Film Review: "No Other Choice" - Park Chan-wook’s Bleakly Comic Portrait of Capitalist Despair - The Arts Fuse
"No Other Choice"’s South Korea looks as if it is steadily transforming into a home more fit for robots -- manning the sawmills of capitalism -- than humans.
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January 1, 2026 at 1:33 PM
@callinamagician.bsky.social on Park Chan-Wook's black comedy about the inhumanity of corporate culture, "No Other Choice": South Korea looks as if it is steadily transforming into a home more fit for robots — manning the sawmills of capitalism — than humans.
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Neil Giordano writes that director Bi Gan’s "Resurrection" is a sumptuous elegy to the cinema. The film is an artistic triumph, but be prepared -- its dreamy narrative may leave some viewers restless.
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Film Review: Resurrecting the Dream - Bi Gan's "Resurrection" - The Arts Fuse
Bi Gan’s sumptuous elegy to cinema is an artistic triumph, but the dreamy narrative may leave some viewers restless.
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December 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Neil Giordano writes that director Bi Gan’s "Resurrection" is a sumptuous elegy to the cinema. The film is an artistic triumph, but be prepared -- its dreamy narrative may leave some viewers restless.
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Thanks to you, it is a very Glad Day for The Arts Fuse --we made our $25,000 goal for the Winter Appeal! Thanks to all who contributed -- and read the magazine. Onwards!
December 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Thanks to you, it is a very Glad Day for The Arts Fuse --we made our $25,000 goal for the Winter Appeal! Thanks to all who contributed -- and read the magazine. Onwards!
The magazine's Winter Appeal ends tomorrow. I’m very grateful for the response we’ve had so far from our readers.
I invite those who have yet to support an independent, nonprofit publication dedicated to seriously (but not solemnly) covering arts and culture to do so.
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I invite those who have yet to support an independent, nonprofit publication dedicated to seriously (but not solemnly) covering arts and culture to do so.
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Donations - Please Help Keep the Arts Fuse Lit - The Arts Fuse
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December 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The magazine's Winter Appeal ends tomorrow. I’m very grateful for the response we’ve had so far from our readers.
I invite those who have yet to support an independent, nonprofit publication dedicated to seriously (but not solemnly) covering arts and culture to do so.
artsfuse.org/keep-the-fus...
I invite those who have yet to support an independent, nonprofit publication dedicated to seriously (but not solemnly) covering arts and culture to do so.
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For Steve Elman, 2025 turned out to be a feast year for devotees of soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. The music found on both of these releases could be thought of as exemplifying three areas Bloom has explored in depth and refined to purity.
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Reviews and Retrospective: Jane Ira Bloom’s "once like a spark" and "Songs in Space" - The Arts Fuse
2025 turned out to be a feast year for devotees of soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. The music found on both of these releases could be thought of as exemplifying three areas Bloom has explored in d...
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December 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
For Steve Elman, 2025 turned out to be a feast year for devotees of soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. The music found on both of these releases could be thought of as exemplifying three areas Bloom has explored in depth and refined to purity.
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In "Translation Spotlight," Tess Lewis writes appreciations of three remarkable translated works that have preoccupied her for months.
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Translation Spotlight: Haunted and Haunting - The Arts Fuse
Appreciations of three remarkable translated works that have preoccupied me for months.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
In "Translation Spotlight," Tess Lewis writes appreciations of three remarkable translated works that have preoccupied her for months.
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Viewing John Singer Sargent and his art through the lens of identity studies and LGBTQ history, writes Trevor Fairbrother, supplies new insights into claims about his homosexuality.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Viewing John Singer Sargent and his art through the lens of identity studies and LGBTQ history, writes Trevor Fairbrother, supplies new insights into claims about his homosexuality.
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Ed Meek on Xiaolu Guo's rethink of #mobydick -- "Call Me Ishmaelle" @groveatlantic.bsky.social. Applying a litmus test to art — in this case ideological sanitizing — inevitably diminishes the art.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Ed Meek on Xiaolu Guo's rethink of #mobydick -- "Call Me Ishmaelle" @groveatlantic.bsky.social. Applying a litmus test to art — in this case ideological sanitizing — inevitably diminishes the art.
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The title of this revelatory book might suggest that it’s limited to uncovering the deficiencies and biases of a particular profession, writes Bill Littlefield. But "The Coroner’s Silence" @beaconpress.bsky.social is far more than that.
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December 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The title of this revelatory book might suggest that it’s limited to uncovering the deficiencies and biases of a particular profession, writes Bill Littlefield. But "The Coroner’s Silence" @beaconpress.bsky.social is far more than that.
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Steve Provizer on "Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social) Composer Lucas Cantor Santiago's book supplies a thoughtful analysis of the relationship between music, musicians, and AI.
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Book Review: "Unfinished" Argues for AI as an Artistic Partner — But at What Cost? - The Arts Fuse
"Unfinished" supplies a thoughtful analysis of the relationship between music, musicians, and AI.
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December 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Steve Provizer on "Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social) Composer Lucas Cantor Santiago's book supplies a thoughtful analysis of the relationship between music, musicians, and AI.
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Editor Bill Marx, Kai Maristed, Roberta Silman, Preston Gralla, Clea Simon and others offer up some of their favorite books of the year.
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Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2025 - The Arts Fuse
An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Editor Bill Marx, Kai Maristed, Roberta Silman, Preston Gralla, Clea Simon and others offer up some of their favorite books of the year.
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Martin Copenhaver supplies a valuable message for the holidays. Sometimes the stranger is someone who is very well known to us, like a father whose strange ways include a devotion to a certain story about a childhood in Wales.
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December 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Martin Copenhaver supplies a valuable message for the holidays. Sometimes the stranger is someone who is very well known to us, like a father whose strange ways include a devotion to a certain story about a childhood in Wales.
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Roberta Silman on "NightWood" at The Mount. The intent was to create a winter display that had no religious message but that would illuminate The Mount at this darkest time of year, that would call attention to its wintry beauty.
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Arts Feature: NightWood at The Mount - A Magical and Deeply Spiritual Experience - The Arts Fuse
The intent was to create a winter display that had no religious message but that would illuminate The Mount at this darkest time of year, that would call attention to its wintry beauty.
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December 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Roberta Silman on "NightWood" at The Mount. The intent was to create a winter display that had no religious message but that would illuminate The Mount at this darkest time of year, that would call attention to its wintry beauty.
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It can’t be denied that #MartySupreme is effective as a wild cinematic trip, writes @callinamagician.bsky.social. But it offers an immersive experience — not an analysis of its self-adorning anti-hero.
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December 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It can’t be denied that #MartySupreme is effective as a wild cinematic trip, writes @callinamagician.bsky.social. But it offers an immersive experience — not an analysis of its self-adorning anti-hero.
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Happy Holidays! In this week's newsletter: a favorite poem. Also, jazz, film, and theater end-of-the-year lists.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Happy Holidays! In this week's newsletter: a favorite poem. Also, jazz, film, and theater end-of-the-year lists.
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Jonathan Blumhofer on #Trump's slapping his name on the #kennedycenter -- and the fate his administration might have in mind for the #nationalsymphonyorchestra
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December 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Jonathan Blumhofer on #Trump's slapping his name on the #kennedycenter -- and the fate his administration might have in mind for the #nationalsymphonyorchestra
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