{{About|the theater and arts critic|the musician|Bill Marx (pianist)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2019}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2012}}

'''Bill Marx''' is a theater critic based in Boston, Massachusetts. Marx served as theater and arts critic for WBUR from 1982 to 2006<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/17629-wbur-slashes-arts-coverage/ |title=WBUR slashes arts coverage - News Features |accessdate=13 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213111151/http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/17629-wbur-slashes-arts-coverage/ |archivedate=December 13, 2013 }}</ref> and as the host of a podcast dedicated to books in translation for WGBH (FM) and Public Radio International's The World (radio program) from 2007 to 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-World-300/episodes/World-Books-The-Foundation-Pit-5673 |title=The World |access-date=14 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501173726/http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-World-300/episodes/World-Books-The-Foundation-Pit-5673 |archive-date=1 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Since 1982, Marx has also written about arts and culture for print, broadcast, and online media outlets including ''The Boston Globe'', ''The Boston Phoenix'', ''The Washington Post'' Book World, ''The Nation'', ''The Boston Review'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bostonreview.net/BR25.3/marx.html |title=That Sweetest Wine |access-date=14 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129114132/http://bostonreview.net/BR25.3/marx.html |archive-date=29 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the ''Los Angeles Times'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-kate-grenville6-2009sep06-story.html|title='The Lieutenant: A Novel' by Kate Grenville|date=September 6, 2009|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> ''Boston Magazine'', ''Columbia Journalism Review'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archives.cjr.org/author/bill-marx/|title=Bill Marx Archive – Columbia Journalism Review|website=archives.cjr.org}}</ref> ''Parnassus'', ''Ploughshares'', ''TheaterWeek'', ''The Village Voice'', Tab Communications, and ''The Boston Ledger''.

Marx won United Press International and Associated Press awards for his radio reviews of Boston theater. He has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award three times.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=324|title=National Book Critics Circle chooses awards nominees; winners to be announced in March|website=Independent Publisher – short}}</ref> Under's Marx's leadership, WBUR Online Arts also won an Online Journalism Award for Specialty Journalism (Small Site).

Since 2007, Marx has been a full-time lecturer at Boston University,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/artsnow/theater-now/|title=Arts Now: Theater Now and Much More » Arts Now! &#124; Boston University|website=bu.edu}}</ref> teaching courses on the history of American arts criticism and the contemporary novel for the Boston University College of Fine Arts and Boston University College of Arts and Sciences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/people/writing-program-faculty/william-marx/|title=William Marx " Writing Program " Boston University|website=bu.edu}}</ref>

As Editor in Chief of ''The Arts Fuse'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artsfuse.org/arts-infusers-editors-and-contributors/editorial-and-operations/|title=Editorial and Operations|website=The Arts Fuse}}</ref> a non-profit web magazine Marx launched in July 2007,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artsfuse.org/about-us/|title=About Us|website=The Arts Fuse}}</ref> Marx helped increase editorial coverage of the arts and culture across Greater Boston and New England with in-depth criticism, previews, interviews, and commentary covering dance, film, food, literature, music, television, theater, video games, and visual arts. ''The Arts Fuse'' has published more than 1,700 articles from 60 expert writers and critics. The web magazine serves as a next generation platform for arts and culture consumers across New England and beyond.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wtbunews.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/the-future-of-arts-criticism-interview-with-arts-fuses-bill-marx/|title=Protected Blog › Log in|website=wtbunews.wordpress.com}}</ref>

Marx began publishing ''The Arts Fuse'' in reaction to the declining arts coverage in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, creating a site that could experiments with professional online arts criticism, looking at new and innovative ways to use online platforms to evolve cultural conversations and bring together critics, readers, and artists.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://somerville.patch.com/articles/in-a-seriously-artistic-city-a-home-for-serious-discussion-about-the-arts |title=In a Seriously Artistic City, a Home for Serious Discussion About the Arts - Somerville, MA Patch |accessdate=14 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501000726/http://somerville.patch.com/articles/in-a-seriously-artistic-city-a-home-for-serious-discussion-about-the-arts |archivedate=May 1, 2012 }}"In a Seriously Artistic City, a Home for Serious Discussion About the Arts"</ref>

''The Arts Fuse''{{'}}s writers currently include Harvey Blume (''The New York Times'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/search/|title=The New York Times – Search|website=The New York Times}}</ref> ''The Boston Globe'', ''Wired'', Agni), J. R. Carroll (WKCR, ''Crawdaddy!'', WBUR Online Arts site), Debra Cash (''The Boston Globe'', WBUR), Franklin Einspruch (''New Criterion'', ''Weekly Dig'', Big Red & Shiny<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/BRS.cgi?view=archive&v=1&start=1&s=FRANKLIN+EINSPRUCH&bA=&inc=50&sort=1&field=3&match=1&aAuth=1 |title=Archived copy |website=www.bigredandshiny.com |access-date=26 January 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628175708/http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/BRS.cgi?view=archive&v=1&start=1&s=FRANKLIN+EINSPRUCH&bA=&inc=50&sort=1&field=3&match=1&aAuth=1 |archive-date=28 June 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>), Steve Elman (''The Boston Globe'', ''The Boston Phoenix'', WBUR), Helen Epstein (author of six books of literary non-fiction), and many more.

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''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artsfuse.org/5925/great-news-for-the-fuse-support-for-the-judicial-review/|title=Great News For the 'Fuse – Support for the Judicial Review|first=Tweets that mention Great News For the ‘Fuse-Support for the Judicial Review : The Arts Fuse Blog-- Topsy com|last=says|date=March 27, 2010|website=The Arts Fuse}}</ref> ''The Arts Fuse'' also won CBS Boston's Most Valuable Blogger Award in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boston.blogger.cbslocal.com/most-valuable-blogger/blog/482-the-arts-fuse/ |title=The Arts Fuse « Most Valuable Blogger « CBS Boston |accessdate=14 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510092655/http://boston.blogger.cbslocal.com/most-valuable-blogger/blog/482-the-arts-fuse/ |archivedate=May 10, 2012 }}</ref>

Marx's professional affiliations include for the Best Translated Book Awards, Fiction judge, beginning in 2010, on the Boston Theater Critics Association's Awards Committee from 1994 to 2006, and on the National Book Critics Circle's board of directors from 1995 to 1997.

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==External links== *[http://artsfuse.org ''The Arts Fuse''] Official Website *[http://wtbunews.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/the-future-of-arts-criticism-interview-with-arts-fuses-bill-marx/ Bill Marx interviewed on WTBU at Boston University] *[http://artsfuse.org/58181/arts-fuse-editor-bill-marx-talks-boston-university-about-arts-coverage-teaching-and-books-in-translation/ ''Arts Fuse'' Editor Bill Marx Talks at Boston University about Arts Coverage, Teaching, and Books in Translation] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100626215644/http://cms.mit.edu/news/2009/11/podcast_communications_forum_t_1.php Podcast: MIT Communications Forum: "The Culture Beat and New Media: Arts Journalism in the Internet Era" with Bill Marx and Doug McLellan] *[http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2005/07/22/show-rundown-for-7222005 WBUR: Bill Marx visits the Lincoln Center Festival] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120502153055/http://www.theworld.org/author/bill-marx/ Segments produced for WGBH and PRI's The World] *[https://graphics.boston.com/yir/living/small_theatre.htm ''Boston Globe''{{'}}s Best Small Theater of 1999] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120129114132/http://bostonreview.net/BR25.3/marx.html That Sweetest Wine review in ''The Boston Review'']

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