Events
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Art Flicks at Concord Art
Presented by Concord Art Association at Concord Art Association January 18-May 16, 2012 THE ART OF THE STEAL
This gripping documentary chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion.
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 18, 7:00pm, free and open to the public.
Upcoming films:
WHAT REMAINS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF SALLY MANN
Spanning five years, What Remains contains unbridled access to the many stages of Mann's photogrpahy, and is a rare glimpse of an eloquent...
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Concord Art Association |
01/18/12 -
05/16/12 |
Concord Art Association, Concord |
Photograph Exhibition - Fado Vadio, Movie Exhibition - Fados
Presented by Boston Portuguese Festival May 16, 2012 Photo exhibition of a typical type of Fado, the Fado Vadio, sung in the old bohemian Lisbon, Portugal.
Fado, a portuguese music style, was recently designated World Intangible Heritage Patrimonium by UNESCO.
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Boston Portuguese Festival |
05/16/12 |
Emerson College - Huret & Spector Gallery Tufte Performance and Production, Boston |
An Evening with Robert Downey Sr.
Presented by The Brattle Theatre at The Brattle Theatre May 16, 2012 In conjunction with the release of the Criterion Collection’s new box set, Up All Night With Robert Downey Sr., the Brattle is pleased to welcome this legendary subversive filmmaker to our stage for an evening of film and conversation. Beginning with a screening of NO MORE EXCUSES, Downey’s look at Manhattan’s singles scene of the late sixties, and ending with an onstage conversation with Downey himself in person, this is sure to be a fascinating and revealing evening with...
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The Brattle Theatre |
05/16/12 |
The Brattle Theatre, Cambridge |
Day Trip: American Art, Glass, and Gardens on Cape Cod
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 17, 2012 Melissa Renn, Senior Curatorial Research Associate, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums
Join us for a daylong journey to Cape Cod as we visit three sites dedicated to American art, design, and culture. We begin our program in the charming town of Cotuit with a visit to the Cahoon Museum of American Art, notable for its impressive collection of folk paintings created by husband and wife artists Ralph and Martha Cahoon. Our next stop will be the...
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Harvard Art Museums |
05/17/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
The Early Films of Robert Downey Sr.
Presented by The Brattle Theatre at The Brattle Theatre May 16-May 17, 2012 Wed 5/16: BABO 73 and CHAFED ELBOWS (9:30). Thu 5/17: BABO 73 and CHAFED ELBOWS (5:00); PUTNEY SWOPE (7:30); NO MORE EXCUSES and TWO TONS OF TURQUOISE TO TAOS TONIGHT (9:30) • Rarely do landmark works of cinema seem so… wrong. Robert Downey Sr. emerged as one of the most irreverent filmmakers of the New York underground of the sixties, taking no prisoners in his rough-and-tumble treatises on politics, race, and consumer culture. In his midnight-movie mainstay PUTNEY SWOPE, an...
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The Brattle Theatre |
05/16/12 -
05/17/12 |
The Brattle Theatre, Cambridge |
Highfield Hall: Senioritis/Senior Artists Reception
Presented by Highfield Hall at Highfield Hall May 17, 2012 The senior artists welcome everyone to view the final exhibition of their high school careers. The students will provide soft drinks and snacks. Admission is free and all are welcome to this very special Falmouth event.
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Highfield Hall |
05/17/12 |
Highfield Hall, Falmouth |
Woody Sez Live Outdoor Simulcast
Presented by Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard May 17, 2012 On May 17th, the American Repertory Theater’s production of Woody Sez will be simulcast live on the Plaza, just outside the Science Center. Sponsored by the A.R.T and the Common Spaces program, this will be the first live outdoor simulcast of a theatre production outside of New York. Woody Sez is a performance that incorporates Woody Guthrie’s words and songs, performed by four singers and instrumentalists, and transports the audience through Guthrie’s fascinating life....
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Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard |
05/17/12 |
Harvard Science Center Plaza Tent, Cambridge |
Oceanic Verses
Presented by MASS MoCA at MASS MoCA May 18, 2012 Composed by Paola Prestini, this multimedia opera follows four separate arcs musically painting a picture of Italy as it once was, a cross section of cultures expressed through song. A Sailor (Claudio Prima) gets lost at sea A Scholar (Helga Davis) investigating immigration loses her suitcase A Mother goes hungry and finds her voice A Soldier (Chris Burchett) crawls through a war zone and finds his love. The story is derived from lost languages, texts of ancient songs, and found poems,...
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MASS MoCA |
05/18/12 |
MASS MoCA, North Adams |
Sarah Zell Young: Occupy Sanhedrin
Presented by Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center March 29-May 18, 2012 The fourth annual Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) Artist-in-Residence, Sarah Zell Young, works in photograph, sculpture, installation and film to explore issues of justice, Judaism and the body.
Her exhibition for the HBI/WSRC, Occupy Sanhedrin, will examine roles - both religious and secular - for Jewish women from the period of the Second Temple to the present and will explore how bodies can become hazarded in the pursuit of justice. The exhibition will feature a...
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Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center |
03/29/12 -
05/18/12 |
Kniznick Gallery, Women Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Waltham |
Our World Foreign Film Series
Presented by Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council May 4-May 18, 2012 The 4th annual Our World Foreign Film Series offers distinguished films from foreign directors. All are shown in their original language with English subtitles. This year's lineup:
May 4; Local Hero, Scottish film directed by Bill Forsyth
May 11; Bliss, Turkish film directed by Abdullah Oguz
May 18; The Wedding Banquet, Chinese film directed by Ang Lee
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Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council |
05/04/12 -
05/18/12 |
Acton Town Hall, Room 204, Acton |
Trás-os-Montes
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive May 18, 2012 Directed by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro. With Ilda Almeida, Rosalía Comba, Luis Ferreira
Portugal 1976, 35mm, color, 111 min. Portuguese with English subtitles
“For me, this film reveals a new cinematographic language.”
– Jean Rouch
Reis and Cordeiro’s undisputable masterpieceexploded the meaning and possibilities of ethnographic cinema with its lyrical exploration of the still resonant myths and legends embodied...
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Harvard Film Archive |
05/18/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Rite of Spring
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive May 18, 2012 Directed byManoel de Oliveira. With Nicolau Nunes Da Silva, Ermelinda Pires, Maria Madalena
Portugal 1962, 35mm, color, 94 min. Portuguese with English subtitles
While location shooting for another film, Oliveira stumbled upon the subject for Rite of Spring, the annual passion play enacted in a village in the same remote northern region of Portugal that would inspire Reis’ most important work. Intrigued by the ritualistic and incantatory qualities of the vernacular...
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Harvard Film Archive |
05/18/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Artists’ Plein Air Day at Cogswell's Grant
Presented by Historic New England May 19, 2012 Artists and painters are invited to Cogswell's Grant for a day of plein air painting. Join fellow artists from all over the North Shore to paint beautiful vistas including the Essex River and the Great Marsh, farm fields and landscapes, and our eighteenth-century historic house and barns. Free beverages and snacks will be available during the day. Artists can tour the museum, which features one of the country's most celebrated collections of American folk art.
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Historic New England |
05/19/12 |
Cogswell's Grant, Essex |
The Beatles' Yellow Submarine remastered and re-released!
Presented by Regent Theatre, Arlington at Regent Theatre May 10-May 19, 2012 The Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been digitally restored in 4K digital resolution - all done by hand, frame by frame. Come experience this groundbreaking animated adventure filled with peace, love, hope, and music - including “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, “When I’m 64”, “Eleanor Rigby”, and of course “Yellow Submarine”!
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Regent Theatre, Arlington |
05/10/12 -
05/19/12 |
Regent Theatre, Arlington |
Neighboring Sounds
Presented by ArtsEmerson May 18-May 19, 2012 This gripping debut sets a security firm in a middle-class neighborhood, its presence a catalyst for the “unease of a society that remains unreconciled to its troubled past and present inequities” (FSLC). Winner, FIPRESCI Award, Rotterdam Film Festival.
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ArtsEmerson |
05/18/12 -
05/19/12 |
Bright Family Screening Room, Boston |
Oslo
Presented by ArtsEmerson May 18-May 19, 2012 Joachim Trier second feature, a compelling study of a young man’s existential crisis, premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and was selected for the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art’s 2012 New Directors/New Films festival.
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ArtsEmerson |
05/18/12 -
05/19/12 |
Bright Family Screening Room, Boston |
alter-ego ii—a photographic exploration of all things not digital
Presented by The Nave Gallery at The Nave Gallery April 28-May 19, 2012 Photography has almost as many celebrated artists as it does technical processes. It is an art that has become ubiquitous with digital media and cell phone technology; having over a billion images created around the world on a daily basis. However, imagery has also seen resurgence and inventiveness in many analogue techniques. This exhibition has invited 18 artists who are still using toy cameras, lens-less photographs and alternative processes to create imagery in our increasingly...
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The Nave Gallery |
04/28/12 -
05/19/12 |
The Nave Gallery, Somerville |
4 x 4: Artists For Education
Presented by The Brush Art Gallery & Studios at Brush Art Gallery May 19, 2012 Over 100 little 4" x 4" inch pieces of original art will be sold to benefit our art scholarship program. Scholarships go to a Lowell resident who attends any high school anywhere and who has been accepted at an accredited college, university or art school.
One $20.00 ticket entitles you to choose one piece of original artwork. Tickets sold at the door. We will not sell more tickets than we have artwork, so you are guaranteed a piece of art. You are encouraged to...
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The Brush Art Gallery & Studios |
05/19/12 |
Brush Art Gallery, Lowell |
Visual Arts Thesis Exhibition 2012
Presented by Endicott College May 1-May 19, 2012 The Visual Arts Thesis Exhibition includes undergraduate and graduate presentations which fill the Center for the Arts hallways and the Carol Grillo Art Gallery with the work by graduating seniors of the School of Visual and Performing Arts. Visual thesis projects by students studying Creative Arts Therapy, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Photography, and Studio Art, and M.F.A. Interior Design are represented in this exhibit. Throughout the two-semester Senior Thesis students spend their...
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Endicott College |
05/01/12 -
05/19/12 |
Endicott Center for the Arts, Beverly |
Ana
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive May 19, 2012 Directed by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro. With Ana Maria Martins Guerra, Manuel Ramalho Eanes, Octávio Lixa Filgueiras
Portugal 1985, 35mm, color, 114 min. Portuguese with English subtitles
More than a decade after their first feature, Reis and Cordeiro returned once more to the Trás-os-Montes region, using the breathtaking landscape as the evocative setting for an intergenerational portrait of family as a variation of the poetically non-linear time...
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Harvard Film Archive |
05/19/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Change of Life (Mudar de Vida)
Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive May 19, 2012 Directed by Paulo Rocha. With Geraldo del Rey, Isabel Ruth, Maria Barroso
Portugal 1966, 35mm, b/w, 90 min. Portuguese with English subtitles
The second and arguably most important film by Paulo Rocha (b. 1935), one of the central figures of the Novo Cinema, Change of Live is a direct response to Oliveira’s Rite of Spring (and, indirectly, to Varda’s Pointe Courte) and an important precursor to the radical documentary-shaped fiction of Trás-os-Montes and, much...
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Harvard Film Archive |
05/19/12 |
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge |
Natalia Zukerman & Adrianne Gonzalez: Art.Is.Song Tour
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim May 19, 2012 Art.is.Song blurs the boundaries and intersections of visual art and music. Join us at Club Passsim on Saturday, 5/19 for live music and a visual art exhibition.
Songwriters and artists Adrianne Gonzalez and Natalia Zukerman met four years ago at a music festival and had an immediate musical connection. Relying on imagery to convey emotions, both artists' songwriting...
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Club Passim |
05/19/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
Cambridge Open Studios 2012
Presented by Cambridge Arts Council May 12-May 20, 2012 Artists throughout Cambridge open their doors to the public for the fourth annual city-wide Cambridge Open Studios (COS) during two weekends in May. Meet local artists and discover unique paintings, jewelry, fiber arts, ceramics, film, mixed-media, literary works, and more!
May 12 & 13, 2012 - East & Central Cambridge
May 19 & 20, 2012 - North/West Cambridge
12 Noon - 6 pm each day
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Cambridge Arts Council |
05/12/12 -
05/20/12 |
Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge |
Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams
Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) February 17-May 20, 2012 Color is a daily experience, from the colors we wear, the subway lines we ride, the food we eat, and the flags we fly. We use colors to describe our emotions: we are green with envy, turn crimson with shame, and on a sad day, we feel blue. Color produces a nonverbal form of communication as we clothe ourselves in colors that convey our mood, our profession, our cultural status, and our team affiliations. These gestures both form the basis of and help us to express our emotional...
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Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) |
02/17/12 -
05/20/12 |
Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA), Boston |
Opening Reception for Senior Project Exhibition
Presented by Boston College at Devlin Hall May 20, 2012 A celebration of the creative work from graduating seniors who are Studio Art majors and minors at Boston College. The exhibition will be open from Tuesday, May 15th through Monday, May 21st on the 4th floor of Devlin Hall.
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Boston College |
05/20/12 |
Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill |
Prints by Janet Fish
Presented by Smith College Museum of Art at Smith College Museum of Art February 10-May 20, 2012 This special installation features prints from the SCMA collection by Smith College artist-alumnae Janet Fish (b. 1938). The prints in this exhibition span thirty years of Fish’s career and include a rare view of her lithographic and screenprinting process through several working proofs for Winsom’s Shells (1985), created at the Smith College Print Workshop. These proofs display the evolution of the print as a work-in-progress and are on view for the first time since they were...
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Smith College Museum of Art |
02/10/12 -
05/20/12 |
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton |
4th Annual Town-Wide Open Studios Arts and Crafts
Presented by Lexington Arts and Crafts Society at Lexington Arts and Crafts Society May 19-May 20, 2012 We are pleased to announce the 4th Annual Town-wide Lexington Open Studios, Art and Fine Crafts. Artists who live, work or are affiliated with the art community in Lexington will participate on May 19 & 20, 2012, from 11am-5pm. This year promises to be the best yet as 78 artists and art organizations will display, discuss, demonstrate and sell their creations in Home Studios, Community Space at 2027 Massachusetts Avenue, The Lexington Arts and Crafts Society at 130 Waltham Street and...
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Lexington Arts and Crafts Society |
05/19/12 -
05/20/12 |
Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Lexington |
Nancy Selvage and Sarah Hutt Exhibition
Presented by Boston Sculptors Gallery at Boston Sculptors Gallery April 18-May 20, 2012 Working in response to the function and significance of providing light, Nancy Selvage presents luminous sculptures and sculptural lamps fabricated with perforated aluminum and light. The interpretation of dreams has fascinated people for thousands of years. Brief fragments of dreams can offer powerful clues about who we are, where we are, and what brought us here. The new exhibition "In Your Dreams" by Sarah Hutt expands on her earlier dream work, exploring the link between dreams...
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Boston Sculptors Gallery |
04/18/12 -
05/20/12 |
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston |
Shoebox Tour: A Juggling Show
Presented by MIT Student Juggling Club at MIT's Wong Auditorium May 20, 2012 Two of the world’s best jugglers stop in Cambridge on their American tour!
Shoebox Tour, a modern juggling show that has played in Canada, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Japan, and Iceland, returns to America this spring with a new cast. International Jugglers’ Association Gold Medal winners Wes Peden and Jay Gilligan created and perform this year's show. Erik Nilsson, a graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, provides a live original soundtrack on...
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MIT Student Juggling Club |
05/20/12 |
MIT's Wong Auditorium, Cambridge |
Bold Colors, Bright Sounds! A Musical Celebration of the Art of Roger Kizik
Presented by Dedee Shattuck Gallery May 20, 2012 A Musical Celebration of the Art of Roger Kizik by musicians of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra.
Featuring flutist Vanessa Holroyd and harpist Barbara Poeschl-Edrich
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Dedee Shattuck Gallery |
05/20/12 |
Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport |