''The Arts Fuse'' is an online arts magazine covering cultural events in

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, and New York. The Arts Fuse has published more than 2,000 articles and provides criticism, previews, interviews, and commentary on dance, film, food, literature, music, theater, television, video games, and visual arts. As Editor-in-Chief of The Arts Fuse, a non-profit web magazine Marx launched in July 2007,

Bill Marx Bill Marx is a theater critic based in Boston, Massachusetts. Marx served as theater and arts critic for WBUR from 1982 to 2006 and as the host of a podcast dedicated to books in translation for WGBH (FM) and Public Radio International's The Wor ...

helped increase editorial coverage of the arts and culture across Greater Boston.

began publishing The Arts Fuse in reaction to the declining arts coverage in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, creating a site that could experiment with professional online

arts criticism Arts criticism is the process of describing, analyzing, interpreting, and judging works of art. It is distinct from art criticism (which focuses on visual arts) due to its broader remit. The disciplines of arts criticism can be defined by the object ...

, looking at new and innovative ways to use online platforms to evolve cultural conversations and bring together critics, readers, and artists. Notable writers and critics for The Arts Fuse have included Peter-Adrian Cohen,

Maryann Corbett Maryann Corbett (née Zillotti, Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, medievalist, and linguist. She grew up in northern Virginia. She did her undergraduate work at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and graduated with ...

Helen Epstein Helen Epstein is an American writer of memoir, journalism and biography who lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States. Biography Early life and education Helen Epstein is the daughter of Kurt Epstein and Franci Rabinek, both survivors o ...

, Jim Kates,

and

Gerald Peary Gerald Peary (born October 30, 1944) is an American film critic, filmmaker, editor of the University Press of Mississippi, and a former curator of the Harvard Film Archive. Early life and education Peary graduated from Rider University in 1964, w ...

. In 2011, The Arts Fuse received a grant from Mass Humanities for its Judicial Review, an online, in-depth, and interactive discussion of the issues raised by the arts on The Arts Fuse. The Arts Fuse also won CBS Boston's Most Valuable Blogger Award in 2011.

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The Arts Fuse official siteArts Fuse Editor Bill Marx Talks at Boston University about Arts Coverage, Teaching, and Books in TranslationPodcast: MIT Communications Forum: "The Culture Beat and New Media: Arts Journalism in the Internet Era" with Bill Marx and Doug McLellan
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