Boston's Premier Online Arts Magazinehttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mya23prdjs2fJonathan Blumhofer writes that on his third recording of Benjamin Britten’s three solo cello suites, the Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey, brings lucid intensity to their knotty arguments and haunting lyricism. https://artsfuse.org/336040/classical-music-album-pieter-wispelwey-captures-benjamin-brittens-fierce-beauty/19 Oct 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mya23prdjs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mya22bh6t22fJason M. Rubin on a new collection of unreleased demos, live performances, and studio recordings that puts Marshall Crenshaw's enduring pop gifts in the spotlight ahead of his November 11 appearance at Boston CityWinery. https://artsfuse.org/335603/album-concert-preview-marshall-crenshaw-beyond-the-hits-into-the-archives/19 Oct 2026 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mya22bh6t22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3my7zxxutxc2fMary Sherman writes that in her haunting installation "Cemetery of the Nameless" at @goetheinstitut.bsky.social Boston, Pınar Öğrenci contemplates displacement, anonymous deaths, and the cruelties that recur across borders and centuries. https://artsfuse.org/336136/visual-arts-review-at-the-goethe-institut-a-landscape-bears-witness/19 Oct 2026 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3my7zxxutxc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3my5mipsefk2nIn this ambitious Czech novel, Radka Denemarková's "A Contribution to the History of Joy," a detective’s inquiry into an apparent suicide becomes a meditation on violence against women, historical memory, and the possibility of joy. From @coffeehousepress.bsky.social https://artsfuse.org/336031/book-review-the-swallows-are-watching-radka-denemarkovas-dark-restless-a-contribution-to-the-history-of-joy/18 Oct 2026 12:34 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3my5mipsefk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3my5ld46nhs2mNeil Giordano on "Misty Green": A stellar Rosalind Eleazar anchors this sour Hollywood parable, but Chris Rock’s performance and an overstuffed screenplay undermine its bite. https://artsfuse.org/336060/film-review-misty-green-hollywood-dreams-bitter-aftertaste/18 Oct 2026 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3my5ld46nhs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3my5l6grldc2mFor Steve Provizer, singer caroll vanwelden’s "Shakespeare Revisited" brings a flexible voice and adventurous textures to the Bard's sonnets, but its melodies and production too often overwhelm the poetry. https://artsfuse.org/335918/jazz-album-review-shakespeares-sonnets-jazzed-and-sometimes-overwrought/18 Oct 2026 12:10 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3my5l6grldc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3my5l3nqs722mDavid D'Arcy at the New York Film Festival: Julia Loktev’s six-hour portrait of exiled TV Rain journalists, a tale set in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s corrupt provincial Russia, and Emmanuel Marre’s understated study of collaboration under Nazi occupation. https://artsfuse.org/336014/film-reviews-escaping-putins-russia-serving-vichy-france-three-films-at-the-new-york-film-festival/?18 Oct 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3my5l3nqs722mhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3my2zfbyw4k2uFor Michael Londra, "An Anthology of the Berkeley Renaissance, edited by Ben Mazer and Blake Campbell gives long-overdue shape to an influential but unjustly forgotten chapter in twentieth-century American poetry. #MadHatPress https://artsfuse.org/335831/book-review-a-berkeley-renaissance-reassembled/17 Oct 2026 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3my2zfbyw4k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3my2z6udgp22uThomas F. Connolly writes that in her book In "Stalin’s Apostles," a gripping, clear-eyed account of the infamous Cambridge spy ring, Antonia Senior dismantles the mythology of the gentleman spy, exposing the murderous loyalties behind the old school tie. https://artsfuse.org/335956/book-review-the-cambridge-five-stripped-of-romance/17 Oct 2026 11:43 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3my2z6udgp22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3my2z4tlspc2uJonathan Blumhofer writes that Rebekah Heller’s new album, "Righteous Rage", celebrates the power, agility, and surprising expressive breadth of the bassoon. @cantaloupe-music.bsky.social https://artsfuse.org/336004/classical-music-album-the-righteous-rage-of-the-bassoon/17 Oct 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3my2z4tlspc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxyk4lcqes2bMark Favermann on the Andres Institute of Art: the organization celebrates the marriage of art and nature each year, with three international artists adding new granite works to the New Hampshire sculpture park. https://artsfuse.org/335888/visual-arts-feature-where-art-meets-nature-andres-institutes-2026-sculpture-symposium/16 Oct 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxyk4lcqes2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxyk2ksbus2bIn Alex Gibney’s exhaustive but important documentary, writes @pkeough1.bsky.social, Elon Musk emerges as a visionary, a menace, and a man determined to escape the world he has helped imperil. https://artsfuse.org/335995/doc-talk-the-simulation-according-to-musk/16 Oct 2026 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxyk2ksbus2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxyjyrem7k2bJon Garelick writes that, at Harvard, the 82-year-old composer-saxophonist Henry Threadgill joined Vijay Iyer and Dafnis Prieto for a taut, wide-ranging evening of angular melody, open space, and rhythmic surprise. https://artsfuse.org/335934/concert-and-album-review-threadgill-iyer-and-prieto-fifteen-years-one-distinctive-voice/?16 Oct 2026 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxyjyrem7k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxvztpkfyc2yEd Perkins’s doc "Clown Panic" deals with a fascinating cultural phenomenon -- America’s 2016 creepy-clown craze -- but @sarahminaosman.bsky.social says the film buries it beneath sweeping analogies and frantic editing. #hulu https://artsfuse.org/335878/film-review-clown-panic-bring-on-the-clowns-spare-us-the-grand-theory15 Oct 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxvztpkfyc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxvzrvixj22yEd Symkus hails the restoration of "The Devils," Ken Russell's provocative 1971 study of politics, religion, and sex in medieval France. It is back on the big screen—with its long-censored footage reinstated. https://artsfuse.org/335901/film-appreciation-the-devils-the-devils-in-me/15 Oct 2026 12:10 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxvzrvixj22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxvzp4j7lc2yThe poem of the week: JosetteAkresh-Gonzales's “Cop City” https://artsfuse.org/335948/weekly-feature-poetry-at-the-arts-fuse-186/15 Oct 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxvzp4j7lc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxudvs4nhk26Michael Morano on #nathanfielder’s #youcanseeeverything: This head-spinning documentary turns the #theranos saga into a revelatory, Philip K. Dickian inquiry into artifice, identity, and truth. #ElizabethHolmes https://artsfuse.org/335866/film-review-elizabeth-holmes-replicant/14 Oct 2026 20:06 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxudvs4nhk26https://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxudnykcxk26@pkeough1.bsky.social on two compelling documentaries in the Boston Palestine Film Festival: one looks at critic #EdwardSaid’s intellectual awakening, the other the unfinished search for justice for Alex Odeh. https://artsfuse.org/335855/doc-talk-two-exemplary-lives-at-the-boston-palestine-film-festival/14 Oct 2026 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxudnykcxk26https://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxthfvqao22gThis week's newsletter contains links to Debra Cash's remembrance of Dance Umbrella founder Jeremy Alliger, Roberta Silman's appreciation of F Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night." My editorial asks how well—or how badly—have our media covered documentaries, literature, and art about Gaza.14 Oct 2026 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxthfvqao22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxthdxumz22g@dankennedy.net on the "The People’s Paper: The Rise and Fall of the New York Daily News." Founded as a sensational tabloid with right-wing, racist sensibilities, the city’s white working-class voice tried to go upscale — and lost to Rupert Murdoch’s sleazier competitor. artsfuse.org/335819/ https://artsfuse.org/335819/b14 Oct 2026 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxthdxumz22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxthbdlhgs2gNoah Goldstein writes that Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner "Fjord," asks whether understanding others requires seeing their side—or questioning our own. At @thecoolidge.bsky.social https://artsfuse.org/335806/film-review-fjord-puts-conviction-on-trial/14 Oct 2026 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxthbdlhgs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxqyrph7xk2yThe Dublin post-punk experimentalists Gilla Band bring songs from their dark new album to Brighton Music Hall. Guitarist Alan Duggan talks to Rob Duguay, and he reflects on the troupe’s evolving creative process and his personal connection to Boston. https://artsfuse.org/335784/musician-interview-gilla-bands-alan-duggan-talks-pugnello-pedals-and-post-punk-possibilities/13 Oct 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxqyrph7xk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxqymjmijs2yFor Jeremy Ray Jewell, Asio Liu’s probing documentary "Strangers and Their Babies" uncovers the forgotten history of unlisted Vietnamese “boat people” refugee camps in the Penghu Islands in the Taiwan Strait following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. https://artsfuse.org/335742/film-review-strangers-and-their-babies-the-people-the-world-didnt-count/13 Oct 2026 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxqymjmijs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxonqyhcws2wAhead of two Massachusetts shows with Dan Bejar, Neko Case talks to Blake Maddux about producing the album "Neon Grey Midnight Green," writing her memoir, composing a "Thelma and Louise" musical, and the toll of streaming on working musicians. https://artsfuse.org/335696/musician-interview-neko-case-more-of-a-joy-than-a-chore/?12 Oct 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxonqyhcws2whttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxm5o4begc2m"Slam Frank" is a satirical entertainment that imagines a progressive regional theater company remaking "The Diary of Anne Frank" as an intersectional, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop musical. https://artsfuse.org/335678/theater-review-slam-frank-nobody-is-safe-and-thats-the-point/11 Oct 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxm5o4begc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxm5k7hpkc2mRoberta Silman offers a compelling appreciation of #fscottfitzgerald's most personal novel, "Tender is the Night," in which a marriage’s collapse becomes a searching exploration of love, ambition, and the courage to begin again. https://artsfuse.org/335552/book-review-tender-is-the-night-fitzgeralds-novel-of-compassion-and-sacrifice/?11 Oct 2026 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxm5k7hpkc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxjfxsd4222kThe Boston dance community is reeling. Debra Cash pays homage to Jeremy Alliger, founder of Dance Umbrella Boston. He helped create the National Performance Network and went on to develop a series of international dance projects under the banner of Alliger Arts. https://artsfuse.org/335638/arts-remembrance-jeremy-alliger-a-complicated-visionary-who-put-dance-first/10 Oct 2026 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjfxsd4222khttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxjfuuqumc2kPeg Aloi on "Carrie," Mike Flanagan’s ambitious TV series update of #stephenking’s classic horror tale pairs a superb cast with social media cruelty and an expanding supernatural world that sometimes overwhelms the story. https://artsfuse.org/335622/watch-closely-carrie-comes-of-age-and-gets-complicated/?10 Oct 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjfuuqumc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxgwu3kwo224In the taut Southern Gothic thriller "Covenant" (at the SpeakEasyStage Company) writes Susan Saccoccia, thwarted longing and the promise of escape turn a Georgia household into a cauldron of suspicion. https://artsfuse.org/335531/theater-review-in-speakeasys-covenant-the-devil-is-in-the-desires/09 Oct 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxgwu3kwo224https://bsky.app/profile/theartsfuse.bsky.social/post/3mxgwrhitns24At New York’s Art Students League, writes David D'Arcy, Robert Cenedella’s grotesque group portrait "Immigrants Are Poisoning the Blood of America" turns the #MAGA elite into a gathering of horned grotesques. https://artsfuse.org/335501/visual-arts-review-the-art-bastard-returns-with-trump-and-company-in-hell/09 Oct 2026 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:2k7pmptxnruziksofjdmw2cm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxgwrhitns24