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4+ hour, 43+ min ago (17+ words) Music Festival Review: Big Ears 2026 - Guitars, Big Bands, and a World of Unhinged Sounds'The Arts Fuse...
Film Festival Roundup: Berlinale's Political Palette - Red Hangars, Rose Rebels, Yellow Censorship
7+ hour, 29+ min ago (799+ words) This year's Berlin International Film Festival was nothing if not political. If you read any of the reporting on this year's Berlin International Film Festival, you probably read about Palestine and a dispute that almost got the festival's director ousted....
Film Review: "Alpha" - A Plague‑Haunted Masterpiece of Memory and Marginalization
9+ hour, 29+ min ago (558+ words) AIDS made us strangers in our own lives. It took our world and made it foreign, putting us in the same socio'cultural no'man's'land where Alpha's immigrant family is struggling. Alpha, directed by Julia Ducournau. Screening in Boston at AMC Boston…...
April Short Fuses — Materia Critica
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (1200+ words) Complied by Arts Fuse Editor Each month, our arts critics " music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts " fire off a few brief reviews. Alternative and Popular Music Hymns from the Hills'maintains a dark, foggy mood, but it does…...
Visual Art Review: “Imagined Nation” and the Unfinished Work of American Democracy
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (135+ words) In light of our current government, the show provides inspiration from the past, and it serves as an invaluable reminder that democracy has never been static, but ever evolving. Imagined Nation at the Boston Athenaeum, on view through November 14. Thomas…...
Theater Review: In "Giant" on Broadway, John Lithgow Towers Above the Material
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (423+ words) The play is preachy. But John Lithgow is magnificent. Let's get the most important thing out of the way first: John Lithgow is giving one of the finest performances currently on a New York stage, and that alone is reason…...
Music Commentary: Brian Wilson's Legacy Thrives - 2026 Reissues Reviewed
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (192+ words) By Jason M. Rubin Though Brian Wilson has left us, his enormous musical legacy lives on through a growing series of posthumous CD and vinyl reissues and books. Now, in 2026, the floodgates have opened and a number of products spotlighting Wilson's…...
Coming Attractions: March 29 Through April 13 - What Will Light Your Fire
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (1770+ words) Compiled by Arts Fuse Editor Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in. A full production would have been nice, but kudos for…...
Book Review: “Mister Everywhere" - Pierre Rissient, the Unruly Champion of Cinema
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (1052+ words) For half a century, cinephile, production assistant, filmmaker, press agent, producer, and programmer Pierre Rissient used all his powers to turn critical attention to filmmakers he took under his wing for their unusual personal vision. Book Review: "Mister Everywhere" " Pierre…...
Classical Album Review: "Piano Heroines" - Claire Huangci Unearths Forgotten Brilliance
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (530+ words) This a superb album, smartly programmed and brilliantly played. "Where has this music been all its life?" The Washington Post's music critic Paul Hume wrote after the first performance in recent memory of Amy Beach's Piano Quintet. "Why has it…...