The Arts Fuse
@theartsfuse.bsky.social
Boston's Premier Online Arts Magazine
Trevor Fairbrother found it remarkable to explore the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's #martinpuryear: Nexus" survey exhibition, then experience a kind of filmic audience with the artist, then return, fired up and enlightened, to the beautiful installation.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Trevor Fairbrother found it remarkable to explore the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's #martinpuryear: Nexus" survey exhibition, then experience a kind of filmic audience with the artist, then return, fired up and enlightened, to the beautiful installation.
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Robert Israel writes that "Kim’s Convenience" (at The Huntington Theatre Company) offers a genial comic glimpse of an immigrant family’s struggle for dignity and an economic foothold.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Robert Israel writes that "Kim’s Convenience" (at The Huntington Theatre Company) offers a genial comic glimpse of an immigrant family’s struggle for dignity and an economic foothold.
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The themes of #lizardboy, the musical, writes Martin Copenhaver would land more squarely—and more powerfully—with a teenage audience than they can with those of us who can only recall such a time in our lives.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The themes of #lizardboy, the musical, writes Martin Copenhaver would land more squarely—and more powerfully—with a teenage audience than they can with those of us who can only recall such a time in our lives.
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Jon Garelick will be contributing an occasional feature that looks at current jazz albums of interest. Here is his debut column.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Jon Garelick will be contributing an occasional feature that looks at current jazz albums of interest. Here is his debut column.
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This week's newsletter has flown the coop. My editorial is on a book that argues hate has been, and can be, “a driving force for a collective pursuit of change.”
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November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This week's newsletter has flown the coop. My editorial is on a book that argues hate has been, and can be, “a driving force for a collective pursuit of change.”
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Robert Israel on "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of #samshepard" (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social).The biographer puts too much emphasis on the dramatist's louche life, neglecting to provide much analysis of the value of his stage work, particularly on whether it will endure.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Robert Israel on "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of #samshepard" (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social).The biographer puts too much emphasis on the dramatist's louche life, neglecting to provide much analysis of the value of his stage work, particularly on whether it will endure.
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Betsy Sherman supplies previews of a few of the obscure gems and curios that make up Harvard Film Archive's huzzah to #ColumbiaPictures, which turns 101 this year.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Betsy Sherman supplies previews of a few of the obscure gems and curios that make up Harvard Film Archive's huzzah to #ColumbiaPictures, which turns 101 this year.
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For Mary Sherman, the works of legendary gallery owner, curator and poet #MarioDiacono were a guide – a guide to see and think deeply about words and images.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
For Mary Sherman, the works of legendary gallery owner, curator and poet #MarioDiacono were a guide – a guide to see and think deeply about words and images.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Jon Garelick asks: Who would have thought that the most exciting keyboard feature by #herbiehancock on Wednesday night at the Boch Center Wang Theatre would be a keytar rave-up? artsfuse.org/319393/conce...
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Jon Garelick asks: Who would have thought that the most exciting keyboard feature by #herbiehancock on Wednesday night at the Boch Center Wang Theatre would be a keytar rave-up? artsfuse.org/319393/conce...
Jonathan Blumhofer on a recital by violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong. These are long-time friends and recital partners; the pair thrive on tackling big stylistic and musical contrasts.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Jonathan Blumhofer on a recital by violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong. These are long-time friends and recital partners; the pair thrive on tackling big stylistic and musical contrasts.
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This week's newsletter has hit the streets. My editorial encourages our theaters to confront, via productions and public discussions, the threat of censorship.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This week's newsletter has hit the streets. My editorial encourages our theaters to confront, via productions and public discussions, the threat of censorship.
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Susan Miron on a @celebrityseries.bsky.social presentation of pianist #DaniilTrifonov and baritone #MatthiasGoerne at Boston's Jordan Hall. For those who love Schubert, this was a memorable occasion indeed.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Susan Miron on a @celebrityseries.bsky.social presentation of pianist #DaniilTrifonov and baritone #MatthiasGoerne at Boston's Jordan Hall. For those who love Schubert, this was a memorable occasion indeed.
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@kuntsuragi.bsky.social thinks that Chainsaw Man - The Movie is the absolute tits. sent from the heavens to save us from Marvel Mediocrity with tried and true character melodrama and breathtaking spectacle.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
@kuntsuragi.bsky.social thinks that Chainsaw Man - The Movie is the absolute tits. sent from the heavens to save us from Marvel Mediocrity with tried and true character melodrama and breathtaking spectacle.
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For Paul Robicheau, there was little doubt that #NekoCase owned every note with a pure sense of conviction — and community — that blew past rock-star trappings.
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October 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
For Paul Robicheau, there was little doubt that #NekoCase owned every note with a pure sense of conviction — and community — that blew past rock-star trappings.
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@pkeough1.bsky.social writes that Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein2025 is, like some other realizations of longtime cinema dreams, alternately magnificent, stunning, provocative, over-produced, exhausting, and fatuous.
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October 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@pkeough1.bsky.social writes that Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein2025 is, like some other realizations of longtime cinema dreams, alternately magnificent, stunning, provocative, over-produced, exhausting, and fatuous.
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Ralph Locke on the Château de Versailles Spectacles recording of the opera "Philidor": First-rate performances, including by a Norwegian orchestra and conductor plus superb international singers, make this album a winner.
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October 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Ralph Locke on the Château de Versailles Spectacles recording of the opera "Philidor": First-rate performances, including by a Norwegian orchestra and conductor plus superb international singers, make this album a winner.
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@pkeough1.bsky.social writes that director #RichardLinklater gets lyrical in "Blue Moon,' his look at master American lyricist #LorenzHart.
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October 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
@pkeough1.bsky.social writes that director #RichardLinklater gets lyrical in "Blue Moon,' his look at master American lyricist #LorenzHart.
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Michael Marano marvels at the twisted black humor of #YorgosLanthimos's "Bugonia." There’s a profound catharsis in watching this film, one that echoes the catharsis articulated by those who attended the ‘No Kings’ protests on the 18th. Starring #emmastone
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October 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Michael Marano marvels at the twisted black humor of #YorgosLanthimos's "Bugonia." There’s a profound catharsis in watching this film, one that echoes the catharsis articulated by those who attended the ‘No Kings’ protests on the 18th. Starring #emmastone
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The weekly newsletter had been released My column is on Aldous Huxley's "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan," a fierce satire of the yearning for immortality, which has become fashionable among uber-rich tech libertarians.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The weekly newsletter had been released My column is on Aldous Huxley's "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan," a fierce satire of the yearning for immortality, which has become fashionable among uber-rich tech libertarians.
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Jonathan Blumhofer has high praise for Nancy Shear's "I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms": How our memoirist and the man who shook Mickey Mouse’s hand crossed paths is characteristic of the author’s good fortune and perseverance.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Jonathan Blumhofer has high praise for Nancy Shear's "I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms": How our memoirist and the man who shook Mickey Mouse’s hand crossed paths is characteristic of the author’s good fortune and perseverance.
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Ed Symkus watched a half-dozen films in this year’s #globedocsfilmfestival. He shared his thoughts.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ed Symkus watched a half-dozen films in this year’s #globedocsfilmfestival. He shared his thoughts.
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Tim Jackson on #halhartley's new film "Where to Land." The director is an old-school romantic, one who sees human frailty and longing not as invitations to despair but as reasons to take part in the joy of living. Screening at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social
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October 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Tim Jackson on #halhartley's new film "Where to Land." The director is an old-school romantic, one who sees human frailty and longing not as invitations to despair but as reasons to take part in the joy of living. Screening at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social
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Kathleen C Stone on the "House of Diggs" (University of North Carolina Press): This is an engaging biography of an important Black Congressman, an effective advocate for racial equality who fell prey to the temptation of ‘living large.’
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October 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Kathleen C Stone on the "House of Diggs" (University of North Carolina Press): This is an engaging biography of an important Black Congressman, an effective advocate for racial equality who fell prey to the temptation of ‘living large.’
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David D'Arcy on three powerful films at the #newyorkfilmfestivall about violence, survival, and revenge: "Put your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,""Sirat," and and #JafarPanahi's "It Was Just an Accident."
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October 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
David D'Arcy on three powerful films at the #newyorkfilmfestivall about violence, survival, and revenge: "Put your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,""Sirat," and and #JafarPanahi's "It Was Just an Accident."
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