Boston's Premier Online Arts Magazinehttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlszlomazc22For Ralph Locke, Dominick Argento’s adventurous 1975 operatic transit through the psyche of Edgar Allan Poe proves to be both delightful and disturbing, particularly when the work is so well performed by Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) and Odyssey Opera. https://artsfuse.org/328787/opera-album-review-argentos-voyage-of-edgar-allan-poe-finally-recorded-rich-strange-and-long-overdue14 May 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlszlomazc22https://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlszhb5il222Christopher Caggiano on #thelostboys and #therockyhorrorshow: Two beloved cult properties arrive on #broadway with formidable casts and decades of devotion behind them – but conjuring darkness turns out to be harder than it looks. https://artsfuse.org/328800/theater-reviews-two-shows-on-broadway-attempt-to-capture-the-dark-the-lost-boys-and-the-rocky-horror-show/14 May 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlszhb5il222https://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlsqlblsbk2dFrom Dave Schumacher’s seaworthy "Agua con Gas" to Carlos Henriquez’s rhythmic "Monk con Clave," these new releases fuse Afro‑Caribbean pulse with big‑band imagination, blending tribute, danceable grooves, and inventive soloing into a shared, celebratory soundscape. artsfuse.org/328822/14 May 2026 11:45 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsqlblsbk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlsqhjpsd22dThis week's poem: Dorian Kotsiopoulos's "In Translation" https://artsfuse.org/328842/weekly-feature-poetry-at-the-arts-fuse-164/14 May 2026 11:43 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsqhjpsd22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlqaqj5blc2iRob Duguay talks to Rhiannon “Ritzy” Bryan of @thejoyformidable.bsky.social about solo detours, storytelling onstage, and reigniting the band’s spark ahead of a Boston return. https://artsfuse.org/328741/musician-interview-the-joy-formidable-rekindled/13 May 2026 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqaqj5blc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlqanxigas2iFor Tim Jackson, "Amrun" is one of the year’s best by an acknowledged world-class director, #FatihAkin. The story traces a boy’s quiet moral awakening as Nazi Germany falls, blending lyrical imagery with unsettling historical clarity. https://artsfuse.org/328754/film-review-in-amrum-innocence-meets-fascist-ideology13 May 2026 11:55 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqanxigas2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlqam46dxs2iDebra Cash writes that "Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life (@celadonbooks.bsky.social) assembles colorful tales of ingenuity while skirting the economic inequities that make them necessary. https://artsfuse.org/328777/book-review-stop-romanticizing-the-starving-artist/13 May 2026 11:54 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqam46dxs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlnqssxhds2kMatt Hanson on a new collection of #haroldbloom’s letters, "The Man Who Read Everything" (Yale University Press). The volume gives us a critic who found the heights of Western literature far more inviting than the “drab” reality of a Vermont forest. https://artsfuse.org/328724/book-review-literary-critic-harold-bloom-the-man-who-read-too-much/12 May 2026 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnqssxhds2khttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlnqr4dsk22kThomas F. Connolly on #marjoriegarber's "A Treacherous Secret Agent: How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare." (@yalepress.bsky.social) The case made here for poetry as resistance proves more fanciful than persuasive. https://artsfuse.org/328630/book-review-literature-vs-mccarthyism-a-battle-marjorie-garber-only-thinks-shes-winning/12 May 2026 12:05 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnqr4dsk22khttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlnqpfjlrk2kKai Maristed on #neigesinno's "Sad Tiger" (@sevenstories.bsky.social). Part exploratory essay and part rigorous attempt at documentation, this powerful book turns a devastating childhood experience into a fearless, searching work of moral and psychological clarity. https://artsfuse.org/328690/book-review-in-sad-tiger-truth-cuts-deeper-than-memoir/?12 May 2026 12:04 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnqpfjlrk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mll7s2ovic2tOur expert critics -- Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumhofer, Peg Aloi Noah Schaffer, Peter Walsh, Tim Jackson, Matt Hanson, and Bill Marx--- supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in. https://artsfuse.org/328379/coming-attractions-may-10-through-25-what-will-light-your-fire/?11 May 2026 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mll7s2ovic2thttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mll7m2j7h22tMichael. Londra on Adrian Matejka's "Be Easy: New & Selected Poems": The poet distills identity, anti-racist critique, political commentary, and literary history into rapid left-right-left punches, each landing hard. @wwnorton.com https://artsfuse.org/328677/poetry-review-adrian-matejkas-be-easy-identity-history-and-the-alpha-poet/?11 May 2026 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mll7m2j7h22thttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlipkzdjqc2fPaul Robicheau on The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis at the City Winery Boston: With chemistry forged on tour, the group fuses jazz, punk, and prog into a fluid live assault. https://artsfuse.org/328660/concert-review-controlled-chaos-the-messthetics-and-james-brandon-lewis-ignite-city-winery10 May 2026 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlipkzdjqc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlgcgombjs2kBob Katz on watching the heralded 1975 movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest": What happens when the rebel archetype outlives its ideals — and finds new, troubling champions. https://artsfuse.org/328599/film-commentary-cuckoos-nest-in-the-age-of-trump-viewer-beware/09 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgcgombjs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mldumtpex22yMargherita Artoni on the @tatemodern.bsky.social catalogue "Tracey Emin: A Second Life." Emin occupies a singular place in contemporary art, where autobiography, confession, and institutional framing converge within a shared system of visibility. https://artsfuse.org/328524/visual-arts-review-tracey-emin-organized08 May 2026 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldumtpex22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mldukduzos2yFor @mikemarano.bsky.social, Curry Barker’s debut feature, #Obsession, turns dating, consent, and loneliness into a bleak and deeply felt horror tragedy. Opens on May 15 at AMC Theatres https://artsfuse.org/328614/film-review-obsession-the-horror-of-dating-for-a-new-generation/08 May 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldukduzos2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlb5ntpk3c2aThe Arts Fuse poem of the week: Anthony Robinson's "GIRL (ילדה)" https://artsfuse.org/328542/weekly-feature-poetry-at-the-arts-fuse-163/07 May 2026 11:51 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb5ntpk3c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlb5m2dwt22aLauren Kaufmann writes that at Watertown's Project Save Photograph Archive, the thirty black-and-white photographs in the show "Winslow Martin: My Armenia (1999-2008)" capture the tenderness, turmoil, and enduring spirit of the Armenian experience. https://artsfuse.org/328455/visual-arts-review-witness-and-wonder-winslow-martins-armenia-in-fragments-of-daily-life/07 May 2026 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb5m2dwt22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlb5jbdoc22a@sarahminaosman.bsky.social writes that a remarkable young cast anchors Netflix’s #lordoftheflies, a haunting adaptation of the William Golding's 1954 novel that resonates sharply with today’s anxieties about masculinity and violence. https://artsfuse.org/328548/television-review-lord-of-the-flies-a-savage-island-revisited/07 May 2026 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb5jbdoc22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mlb5gurnvk2aTrevor Fairbrother highly recommends the Currier Museum of Art's "Spray: Jules Olitski in the 1960s" -- it underscores the radiant ambition—and shifting fortunes—of a Color Field innovator. works are presented in a pitch-perfect gallery setting. https://artsfuse.org/328510/visual-arts-review-jules-olitski-spray-gun-art-from-the-swinging-sixties/07 May 2026 11:47 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb5gurnvk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3ml6oxfq3is2dPeg Aloi on #TheDevilWearsPrada2: Cerulean dreams return with a biting media critique and #MerylStreep’s cucumber-cool Miranda facing down tech billionaires. https://artsfuse.org/328477/film-review-the-devil-wears-prada-2-delivers-fresh-satire-stunning-couture/?06 May 2026 12:23 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6oxfq3is2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3ml6oufhbks2dScott McLennan on the album "Time," a long-shelved session where Taj Mahal reveals himself to be a master of blending blues with global grooves and undimmed vitality. https://artsfuse.org/328496/blues-album-review-taj-mahals-time-finally-arrives-and-proves-worth-the-wait/06 May 2026 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6oufhbks2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3ml6orw6dwc2dIn the newsletter: May Short Fuses! The editorial asks: will the U.S. will recognize cultural preservation as a non-negotiable value—or continue to treat it as expendable whenever it proves inconvenient? https://artsfuse.substack.com/p/the-arts-fuse-newsletter-may-606 May 2026 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6orw6dwc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3ml454jaucc23James Kates admires the stark prairie lyrics of survival, memory, and reluctant belonging in Karen Solie's award-winning collection, "Wellwater." Published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social https://artsfuse.org/328304/poetry-review-karen-sollies-wellwater-poetry-callused-yet-not-callous/05 May 2026 11:58 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml454jaucc23https://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3ml44fp4utk2f@callinamagician.bsky.social writes that Canadian documentarian Sophy Romvari's debut feature, "Blue Heron," is a stunner -- a fractured childhood remembered through a lens of distance and grief. @thecoolidge.bsky.social and AMC Loews Boston Common 19 https://artsfuse.org/326243/film-review-blue-heron-director-sophy-romvari-turns-childhood-trauma-into-art/05 May 2026 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml44fp4utk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3ml447vst4k2fThomas F. Connolly on Hugo Drochon's illuminatingly relevant study "Elites and Democracy" (@princetonupress.bsky.social ). The book explains why democracy cannot escape elites—and how they quietly reshape power from within. https://artsfuse.org/328411/book-review-elites-and-democracy-a-perceptive-x-ray-of-powers-circulation/?05 May 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml447vst4k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mkzkxvjsas26@pkeough1.bsky.social writes that indie innovator Pete Ohs's “Erupcja” is a volcanic comedy of fate and missed connections. Musician/multi-hyphenate @charlixcxupdates.bsky.social is affecting in her film debut. https://artsfuse.org/328367/film-review-erupcja-is-peak-entertainment/04 May 2026 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzkxvjsas26https://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mkzkukhrgs26An expansive commentary from Joseph Horowitz on why festival programming—and humanities partnerships—can save the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social from its current crisis. https://artsfuse.org/328399/arts-commentary-the-boston-symphonys-new-humanities-blueprint-makes-sense/04 May 2026 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzkukhrgs26https://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mkwzndo2g22fJonathan Blumhofer writes that the Neave Trio's new album, "In Her Hands" is as well recorded as it is programmed and played. https://artsfuse.org/328336/classical-music-album-review-the-neave-trios-in-her-hands/03 May 2026 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwzndo2g22f