The Arts Fuse

Founded in June 2007, The Arts Fuse is an independent online magazine focused on the arts. It offers in-depth reviews, insightful previews, interviews, and thoughtful commentaries. With a team of more than 60 freelance critics, many of whom have extensive experience in their fields, the publication covers a wide range of topics, including dance, film, food, literature, music, television, theater, video games, and visual arts.

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Classical Music Commentary: Making Sense of the BSO's "Decoding Shostakovich"

3 weeks ago | artsfuse.org | Aaron Keebaugh

By Aaron KeebaughRussian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was both a rebel and a conformist, a fascinating hybrid of courage and cowardice. Even when mired in perpetual crisis, Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich tried to look on the bright side. “Life is beautiful,” he said of his Eighth Symphony, a work that ends in a glimmer of light.
Film Interview: Talking Trash with Annapurna Sriram - The Arts Fuse

1 month ago | artsfuse.org | Michael T. Ullman |Ed Symkus |Jonathan Blumhofer |Ezra Glenn |Peter Walsh

Annapurna Sriram’s "Fucktoys" is poised for cult greatness among queer cinephiles, filthy femmes, and those of us who find today’s movie landscape frighteningly sex averse.
Film Review: “Rust” – A Horrific Filmmaking Experience Produces an Exceptional Western - The Arts Fuse

1 month ago | artsfuse.org | Ed Symkus

By Ed SymkusRust is an old-school Western with some fine performances, a violent edge, and a lot of heart. Rust, written and directed by Joel Souza. It’s available to watch on Apple, Amazon, and Fandango at Home. Before any critiquing begins, a certain immense elephant in the room needs to be addressed.
Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Mozart and Arvo Pärt

2 months ago | artsfuse.org | Aaron Keebaugh

By Aaron KeebaughGuest conductor Dima Slobodeniouk and the Boston Symphony Orchestra invited listeners to a meditative evening of music. How can a Requiem be so upbeat?” one listener quipped after the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s concert last Thursday night.
Musician Interview: Neal Francis on His Album "Return To Zero"

2 months ago | artsfuse.org | Rob Duguay |Bill Marx

By Rob DuguayChicago singer-songwriter and pianist Neal Francis has been riding a smooth retro groove since the late 2010s, thanks to his stellar fusion of funk, soul, R&B, and psychedelic rock — nostalgic musical dives into an era when the chic sported bell bottoms and afros. He continues this creative approach with his third studio album, Return To Zero, on ATO Records. As part of his tour supporting the release, Francis and his band will be performing at The Sinclair in Cambridge on March 26.
Concert Review: Rolling Thunder -- The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Violinist Ray Chen

2 months ago | artsfuse.org | Aaron Keebaugh

By Aaron KeebaughViolinist Ray Chen and the BSO delivered one of the most seismic performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto that I’ve heard. “The violin is no longer played,” complained Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick about Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. “It is tugged about, torn, beaten black and blue.”For Hanslick, Tchaikovsky’s music epitomized vulgarity. Its wild turns and lack of formal dimensions were simply too much for his civilized ears.
Author Interview: Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian on His First Novel, "Nobody’s Empire" - The Arts Fuse

Jan 27, 2025 | artsfuse.org | David Stewart |Paul Robicheau |Leigh Rastivo |Ralph P. Locke

With 12 studio albums and myriad EPs to his band’s credit, Stuart Murdoch can now boast, not that he’s the type to do so, of being a published novelist.
Book Column: Spotlighting Masterful Literary Translations

Jan 22, 2025 | artsfuse.org | Tess Lewis

By Tess LewisOne of translation’s greatest powers — its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language and set of conventions and transplant it into another — is a delicate procedure. A negligible percentage of the books published in the United State each year are literary translations and a vanishingly small percentage of these are reviewed in print or online.
Concert Review: PoemJazz -- Pure Poetry, Pure Music

Jan 22, 2025 | artsfuse.org | Jon Garelick

By Jon GarelickPoemJazz is a project where music and poetry reinforce each other, where the declaimed poetry works like the sung line of a song — though Robert Pinsky never sings or pretends to. PoemJazz, at the Regattabar, Cambridge, on January 18. When I took my seat at the packed Regattabar for Robert Pinsky’s PoemJazz, the old skepticism grabbed me: Was this going to be any good? I’d seen Pinsky’s band a few times before, and it had been good. But it had also been a while.
David Lynch, Prince of Darkness -- A Personal Remembrance

Jan 18, 2025 | artsfuse.org | Peg Aloi

By Peg AloiMy first experience of David Lynch, who died on January 15, was watching Eraserhead (1977) in college sometime around 1983. We had a coffee house film club in the Rathskeller where there would be screenings of things like Reefer Madness and other trippy stuff. Friends and I would go and smoke some weed, watch the movies, and laugh ourselves silly.