Lauren Kaufmann on "Derrick Adams: View Master" at the ICA/Boston: Jubilant collages, TV motifs, and immersive rooms celebrate 25 years of this Black artist's inventive practice. artsfuse.org/327654/visua...

Debra Cash on "A Khmer Swan Lake," performed by the @angkordance.bsky.social at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre. This performance demonstrates how comprehensively Cambodian classical dance has been resurrected across the United States. artsfuse.org/327689/dance...

@sarahminaosman.bsky.social thinks "Margo’s Got Money Troubles" is a sharp, locally grounded dramedy that captures the contradictions of suburban Southern California — and the steep cost of survival for young women. The show stars #michellepfeiffer and #ElleFanning artsfuse.org/327628/telev...

Peter Keough on a #HarvardFilmArchive retrospective of four films by two Hungarian artists -- #BélaTarr and #LászlóKrasznahorkai -- that unfolds as a monochromatic monolith of mud, misery, human folly, and inexorable corruption. artsfuse.org/327602/film-...

This week's poem: "Suffering Is Not Special" by James Cook artsfuse.org/327615/weekl...

Matt Hanson on a trio of handsome new editions of books by #nancylemann. Lemann is a born and raised New Orleanian, and her mind is never far from the eccentricities of the crescent city. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social artsfuse.org/327551/book-...

Martin Copenhaver on Matthew Lombardo's stage farce "When Playwrights Kill": In this high-energy comedy of creative frustration, history—and hubris—repeat themselves to hilarious effect. artsfuse.org/327590/theat...

If there is a through-line consolidating Ian Buruma’s study of survival, "Stay Alive: Berlin 1939-45," writes Joseph Horowitz, it is the admonition: Do not rush to judgment. @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

The newsletter is out and about. Links to the latest reviews and views. A guest editorial: "It is deeply unfair that human musicians are subject to the same monetization rules with those who can generate a track simply by prompting a machine." artsfuse.substack.com/p/the-arts-f...

Michael Londra on an experimental -- and prescient -- poetry collection: In "​/face," William Lessard examines how technology fragments identity, transforming our faces into data and design. Kernpunkt Press artsfuse.org/327533/poetr...

Rob Duguay talks to to bassist and songwriter Joseph D. Rowland on revisiting the early album "Foundations of Burden," perfecting Pallbearer’s sound, and bringing heavy atmosphere to an unconventional venue -- WidowMaker Brewing's Hopsmokerfest. artsfuse.org/327517/music...?

Jason M. Rubin writes that in his new album "Hope and Fury," Joe Jackson revisits familiar sounds with sardonic flair and surprising warmth on his most concise, eclectic album in years. artsfuse.org/327506/music...

Trevor Fairbrother on "The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of #PeterHujar and #PaulThek" (@fsgbooks.bsky.social): biographer Andrew Durbin sees these charismatic queer artists as historical figures from a lost era that he wants to discover on his own terms. artsfuse.org/327490/book-...

With today’s @bostonsymphony.bsky.social in an uproar, lacking direction, writes Joseph Horowitz, attention should be paid to Henry Higginson, who invented the Boston Symphony. artsfuse.org/327450/class...

Our expert critics -- Jon Garelick, Peter Walsh, Tim Jackson, Matt Hanson, Peg Aloi, Noah Schaffer, Blake Maddux, Jonathan Blumhofer, and me supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added. artsfuse.org/327432/telev...

@sarahminaosman.bsky.social on "Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair A surprisingly heartfelt reboot that revives the show’s chaotic charm, even if some of the family sparks are missing. artsfuse.org/327432/telev...

Margherita Artoni on the volume "Gauri Gill: Acts of Appearance." One of the most compelling voices in contemporary photography, this artist creates work shaped by a dense visual language in which light, composition, and texture serve as active components of meaning. artsfuse.org/327329/book-...

Ed Meek on #AdaLimón's "Against Breaking, On the Power of Poetry" (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social). In praising poetry’s power, the 24th poet laureate of the United States leaves clarity—and craft—behind. artsfuse.org/327347/book-...

Rob Battles files a diary of shows attended – good, bad, and indifferent — at this year’s #BigEarsFestival as well as comments on some of the event's non-musical joys and hassles. artsfuse.org/327242/music...

Michael Londra on a new translation of Juan Ramón Jiménez's seminal volume "Eternities" -- this volume of poetry could be considered a gallery of invisible tongues schmoozing at heaven’s bandwidth. The Bitter Oleander Press artsfuse.org/327263/poetr...

Jennifer Jean’s bilingual collection "Other Paths from Shahrazad: an Arabic/English Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Arab Women" reveals how contemporary Arab women poets redefine storytelling, identity, and survival. @tupelopress.bsky.social artsfuse.org/327293/

@pkeough1.bsky.social on two inspiring documentaries at The National Center for Jewish Film Festival: Claude Lanzmann’s haunted pursuit of testimony and Henrietta Szold’s humanitarian legacy illuminate the enduring power of courage and conscience. @thecoolidge.bsky.social artsfuse.org/327207/

Hannah Brueske is skeptical about #TheDrama: #KristofferBorgli’s #A24 feature flirts with social relevance, but ends up exploiting a reality it refuses to confront. artsfuse.org/327222/film-...

@callinamagician.bsky.social on the documentary "John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office" -- if Lilly hadn’t been a real person, a science fiction writer would no doubt have created him. Screening @brattletheatre.bsky.social on April 13. artsfuse.org/326330/film-...

@sarahminaosman.bsky.social on the final season of #hacks, one of the best sitcoms in recent years.

This week’s poem: Michael Franco’s “from The Book of The Night Sky [A BOOK OF MEASURE VOL TWO] SIXTH CIRCUMFERENCE” artsfuse.org/327199/weekl...

David Mehegan on #renekarabash's "She Who Remains," which was just named one of six fiction finalists for the International Booker Prize for works translated into English. If this novel is made into a movie and you go to see it, hang on to your seat. artsfuse.org/327163/book-...

In "The Extended Universe," writes Michael Marano, Vicky Osterweil examines how #waltdisney's empire imposes a politically dangerous, patriarchal form of homogenization across all its intellectual properties. @haymarketbooks.org artsfuse.org/327126/book-...

James Kates on a superb new translation of #Petrarch's "Canzoniere." What may look at first like exercises in verbal acrobatics — closely rhymed sonnets, delicate madrigals, intricate sestinas — are simultaneously expressions of confessional, personal anguish. artsfuse.org/326967/poetr...

Joan Lancourt writes that, with its first-rate production of "Charlotte’s Web," Wheelock Family Theatre has created a lovely, balanced experience — by turns obvious and full of nuance — that offers life lessons in the value of multigenerational sharing. artsfuse.org/327149/theat...

The Arts Fuse newsletter has arrived! Links to April Short Fuses and other goodies. As for my editorial, it is about how AI is gunning for arts criticism. artsfuse.substack.com/p/the-arts-f...?

Joseph Horowitz's commentary looks into a consequential decision by Boston Symphony Orchestra leadership that has never been scrutinized. Had he been selected as Music Director, #LeonardBernstein might have changed the course of American classical music. artsfuse.org/327004/

Scott McLennan was bowled over by the Puscifer show at the Boch Center. It was a fresh, multilayered, multimedia performance whose smart narrative flow wove in all of the group’s new songs released earlier this year on the "Normal Isn’t" album. artsfuse.org/327091/conce...?

Ralph Locke is thrilled: This is one of the most welcome, ear-opening recordings he's heard in recent years, easily capable of restoring Ferdinand Hiller to the position he once held as the composer of highly accomplished, enjoyable, and intriguing works. artsfuse.org/327057/class...

David Greenham reviews Good Theater's "Grand Horizons." The play has laughs and depth, but dramatist #bethwohl flinches at getting to the heart of what looks to be a cautionary tale about how poorly we communicate with each other, especially with those we love. artsfuse.org/327073/theat...

Carolynn Kingyens on The Arts Fuse's Ed Meek's poetry collection, "Great Pond": his ability to harness language and cadence is comparable to watching a cowboy harness a wild mustang. artsfuse.org/327017/book-...?

@pkeough1.bsky.social reviews two superior docs at #WickedQueer: The Boston LGBTQ+ Film Festival: Brydie O’Connor’s "Barbara Forever" and Fil Ieropoulos’s "Uchronia." artsfuse.org/327035/doc-t...

Yulia Pereira finds Tyler Watamanuk's "Bigger Than Fashion: How 'Streetwear' Conquered Culture (@simonandschuster.bsky.social). The book ignores the broader historical and political conditions that encouraged the success of streetwear in the first place. artsfuse.org/326947/book-...

Bill Marx reviews #brandenjacobsjenkins's “reunion” drama, "The Comeuppance," at The Wilbury Theatre Group. Each of the performers supplying sufficient dramatic weight and interacting as a credible ensemble of characters rather than caricatures. artsfuse.org/326693/theat...

Cyrisse Jaffee reviews three Three light-hearted children's books about family life reveal deeper meanings. artsfuse.org/326921/child...?

Peg Aloi adores the indie horror film "Mother of Flies": This is pure cinema, unpretentious, rough-hewn, mystical, conjured from the earth, offered up at the forest altar of whatever flesh-and-blood gods are still listening.Streaming on Shudder artsfuse.org/326932/film-...

Michael Marano hails #JuliaDucournau's "Alpha" as a masterpiece. 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. artsfuse.org/326836/film-...

David D'Arcy on the Berlin International Film Festival: this year's event, with its controversies over Palestine, was nothing if not political. artsfuse.org/326766/film-...

This week's poem -- Jacqueline Waters's "Us ‘n’ Nature" artsfuse.org/326861/weekl...

@aaronkeebaugh.bsky.social writes that conductor Andris Nelsons and the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social musicians came on stage together last night wearing red carnations as symbols of solidarity. The applause was immediate and fervent. artsfuse.org/326804/conce...

A guest editorial from Gina Gagliano in this week's Arts Fuse newsletter -- "Books are being banned in Massachusetts." artsfuse.substack.com/p/the-arts-f...

@allenmichie.bsky.social on new jazz vocal albums: April Varner, a rising star in this new generation of female jazz singers, pays homage to Ella Fitzgerald; John Pizzarellii’s recording is an early entry in the long list of tributes for #tonybennett’s 100th birthday. artsfuse.org/326720/jazz-...

In light of our current government, writes Lauren Kaufmann, the Boston Athenæum show "Imagined Nation" provides inspiration from the past, and it serves as an invaluable reminder that democracy has never been static, but ever evolving. artsfuse.org/326743/visua...

April's Short Fuses -- a roundup of brief reviews of music, book, theater, film, and visual art -- is a record breaker. Over a dozen! Check them out ... artsfuse.org/326490/april...

Christopher Caggiano concludes that "Giant" -- a theatrical reckoning with Roald Dahl's antisemitism -- is preachy. But John Lithgow is magnificent playing a man who wrote some of the most beloved children’s books of the twentieth century. artsfuse.org/326674/theat...