Events
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"AMERICAN GRACE: HOW RELIGION DIVIDES AND UNITES US
Presented by Boston University Institute for Philosophy & Religion March 1, 2012 Robert Putnam, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Thursday, March 1, 6 pm Boston University School of Law Barristers Hall 765 Commonwealth Avenue First Floor Moderator: Robert Hefner (Director, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University) Respondent: Peter Berger (Director Emeritus, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University) This event co-sponsored by Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs and...
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Boston University Institute for Philosophy & Religion |
03/01/12 |
Boston University School of Law Barristers Hall, Boston |
14th Annual Boston College Arts Festival
Presented by Boston College April 26-April 28, 2012 Every year, the Boston College Arts Festival brings the Boston College and surrounding communities together to celebrate the arts. Music, theater, dance, film screenings, art exhibitions and demonstrations, literary readings, children's activities, special events, and much more!
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Boston College |
04/26/12 -
04/28/12 |
Boston College, O'Neill Plaza Event Center, Chestnut Hill |
A Conversation and Performance: "Six American Painters"
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston April 11, 2012 Join us for an extraordinary evening of art and music as curator Erica Hirshler discusses ?Six American Painters? with its award-winning composer, John Harbison. Hirshler shows examples of works by the six American artists who inspired the music: George Caleb Bringham, Thomas Eakins, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, Hans Hofmann, and Richard Diebenkorn. Harbison talks about composing it, and musicians play each of the six movements.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
04/11/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
A Conversation: The Real Cleopatra
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston March 7, 2012 Cleopatra VII has captured the heart and the imagination of the public like no other figure from antiquity. Award-winning author Stacey Schiff and curator Lawrence Berman go beyond the myth and mystery to uncover the truth behind the life of this powerful Egyptian queen.
Book signing follows.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
03/07/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
A Look Inside SB 1070
Presented by Northeastern University School of Law February 15, 2012 The Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA) will sponsor a viewing of the documentary "A Look Inside SB 1070" and host speakers from the Center for New Community, the film's producer. The film follows a national student delegation as it toured Arizona in August of 2010 amidst the passage of the controversial state immigration law known as SB 1070. Nine students from Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, and Colorado comprised the delegation which set out to gain a...
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Northeastern University School of Law |
02/15/12 |
240 Dockser Hall, Northeastern University, Boston |
A MIXED MEDICINE BAG - Book Signing & Reading
Presented by Oversoul Theatre Collective, Inc. February 25, 2012 McGruder Media in cooperation with Frugal Book Store presents a very special BOOK SIGNING & Reading of A MIXED MEDICINE BAG: Original Black Wampanoag Folklore, by internationally celebrated Author, Playwright & Performing Artist, Mwalim *7) Frugal Book Store 330 Martin Luther King Boulevard Boston, MA 02119 (617) 541-1722
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Oversoul Theatre Collective, Inc. |
02/25/12 |
Frugal Book Store, Roxbury |
ACT Lecture| Bruce Yonemoto: Re-representations and Simulations
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) March 5, 2012 Bruce Yonemoto works within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce, and the gallery world and cinema screen. Yonemoto juxtaposes cultural material from different international communities, such as those of the Japanese Americans, Nipo-Brasiliero, Peruvian Quechua and Hollywood communities. The photographic series North South East West focuses on the erased history of American Civil War soldiers of Asian descent. Yonemoto’s collaboration with Dr. Juli Carson deals with the...
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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) |
03/05/12 |
ACT cube, Cambridge |
ACT Lecture| Gloria Sutton: Playback: Broadcast Experiments 1970 and Now
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) April 2, 2012 In the 1970s, broadcast television, cable, and even satellite transmissions were considered viable outlets for visual artists to experiment, tamper, and often times, spectacularly fail with, all the while engaging in a generative model of art production. This talk focuses on the institutionalization of media art with a particular emphasis on the Long Beach Museum of Art’s prescient move to set up a media art center and commission artists to create a broadcast channel to distribute...
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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) |
04/02/12 |
ACT cube, Cambridge |
ACT Lecture| MIchael Corris: What Do Artists Know? Contemporary Responses to the Deskilling of Art
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) February 13, 2012 Some contemporary art is profoundly engaged with the world in ways that go beyond interpretation. We seem to be in the midst of a cultural moment where the instrumentalization of art has never been more widely accepted among artists. Whether such artistic practices seek to work across disciplines like science or sociology, or aim to intervene positively in the social and cultural life of communities, the artists involved may be said to hold in common the belief that there is a real advantage...
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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) |
02/13/12 |
ACT cube, Cambridge |
ACT Lecture| Michael Eng: Sound and Semiocapitalism: Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) April 23, 2012 This talk will analyse the sonic and affective turns that have appeared relatively recently in both contemporary art practice and current critical thought from the standpoint of what Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi has termed “semiocapitalism.” Though the attention to sound and affect is typically held to be a remedy to the excesses of the past few decades (occularcentrism, the preoccupation with discursivity, and the persistence of form, to name but a few), affect is precisely...
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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) |
04/23/12 |
ACT cube, Cambridge |
ACT Lecture| Muntadas: Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) April 9, 2012 Muntadas’ work addresses social, political and communications issues such as the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigates channels of information and the ways these may be used to censor or promulgate ideas. His projects are presented in different media such as photography, video, publications, the Internet, installations, and urban interventions. Muntadas has received numerous awards and grants, and his work has been exhibited...
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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) |
04/09/12 |
ACT cube, Cambridge |
ACT Lecture| Taru Elfving: Archipelago Logic: Towards Sustainable Futures
Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) March 12, 2012 Taru Elfving, curator and director of Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA), calls into play the curatorial notion of the "dysfunctional" exhibition and its role within the larger concept of sustainability. CAA, a trans-disciplinary, cross-cultural exhibition spread across the isles of the Turku Archipelago (Baltic Sea), included over 23 international artists who researched the area’s environment and ways of life, and worked with the local community and institutions. Elfving...
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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) |
03/12/12 |
ACT cube, Cambridge |
Adam Bradley: Hip-Hop Lecture
Presented by The Arts at Wellesley at Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Green Hall 237, Wellesley College March 26, 2012 Adam Bradley, Professor of English, University of Chicago, Boulder, is a scholar of African American literature and a writer on black popular culture. His commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal as well as on PBS, NPR, and C?SPAN. Adam is the author or editor of several books, including Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop and The Anthology of Rap. Most recently, he collaborated with the rapper and actor Common on Common’s...
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The Arts at Wellesley |
03/26/12 |
Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Green Hall 237, Wellesley College, Wellesley |
An Evening With Artist, Author, and Filmmaker Marjane Satrapi
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston April 25-April 26, 2012 Award-winning graphic novelist and artist Marjane Satrapi makes a rare U.S. appearance.
Stories of her family?from dethroned emperors to heroes of the revolution?are captured in Persepolis, a book based on her own personal experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. The animated film adaptation of Persepolis won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. A live action film based on her book Chicken with Plums will...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
04/25/12 -
04/26/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
Are Social Networks Really Social?
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston April 1, 2012 Our devices may make us feel more connected, but are we? Join us for a lively discussion on social media and its impact on art, relationships, and our psyche. Sherry Turkle, author of the acclaimed book Alone Together, questions if our social networks are making us more, not less, isolated. Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life, examines the dark side of the Internet and its potential to disrupt family bonds. Artist Rachel Perry Welty speaks about recording details of her life,...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
04/01/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
Presented by Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine April 16-April 18, 2012 Nutrition & Health: State of the Science and Clinical Applications is the premier nutrition conference for health professionals in the U.S. Presented by Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, the conference assembles internationally-recognized researchers, clinicians, educators, and chefs, all of whose work focuses on the interface between nutrition and healthful living. You will leave understanding the links between nutrition, disease...
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Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine |
04/16/12 -
04/18/12 |
Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston |
Art as Source of Information on Horticultural Technology
Presented by Arnold Arboretum at Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University March 5, 2012 Jules Janick, James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture, Purdue University
Monday, March 5, 7:00–8:30pm
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Works of art from antiquity to the present constitute an alternate source of information on horticultural technology and science, providing significant information on subjects such as the history of technology, crop evolution, lost traits, and crop dispersal. Using examples of Paleolithic,...
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Arnold Arboretum |
03/05/12 |
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston |
Artist Discussion: Ambiguous Affiliations
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum at BCA Cyclorama February 16, 2012 Caitlin Berrigan will be joined by Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez, curator LA GALERÍA, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, and James G. Ennis, Associate Professor of Sociology at Tufts University with an expertise in social movements to discuss subjects surrounding Spectrum of Inevitable Violence, such as the slippery affiliations of social class, the role culture plays in their dynamics, and how personal interrelations of class enter into larger political domains.
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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum |
02/16/12 |
BCA Cyclorama, Boston |
Artist Discussion: Artistic Collaboration
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum March 10, 2012 Join exhibiting artists Alexi Antoniadis, Nico Stone, and Megan and Murray McMillan as they discuss what it is like to work collaboratively with another artist, and how working as a team affects their creative practice. The artists will bring light to questions such as what is in a name, where does each artist’s creativity come to light, and how do artistic collaborations logistically work. Artist discussion will be followed by a brief Q & A period.
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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum |
03/10/12 |
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln |
Artist Discussion: Musical Influences
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum April 7, 2012 Join exhibiting artists Joe Wardwell and Ven Voisey as they discuss how music is incorporated into their bodies of work in general, and more specifically to their work on view in The 2012 deCordova Biennial. Artist discussion will be followed by a brief Q & A session.
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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum |
04/07/12 |
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln |
Artist Talk & Opening Celebration: ANNETTE LEMIEUX: UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts February 16, 2012 An Artist Talk by Annette Lemieux will open the exhibition ANNETTE LEMIEUX: UNFINISHED BUSINESS, on view at at the Carpenter Center through April 1, 2012.
The talk will be followed by a conversation with Annette Lemieux, exhibition curator Lelia Amalfitano, and Susan Stoops,curator of contemporary art at the Worcester Art Museum. A reception will follow.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS presents a combination of new work with work revisited to reveal the relationship between...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
02/16/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
Artist Talk: AMBER DAVIS TOURLENTES
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts February 23, 2012 Tourlentes grew up in the 70s–80s in the gay community with her father. For thirteen years she has photographed the same-sex parented family movement, including her own extended family. The photographic projects investigates the reworking of not only gender but also ethnic, religious and cultural/class roles for family life, lobbyist groups, coalitions and (corporate sponsorship and the portrayal of shifting LGBT community in the media). Unexpectedly, so far in this body of work, it is...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
02/23/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
Artist Talk: SUE JOHNSON
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts April 5, 2012 Artist Talk: Sue Johnson’s work straddles the fields of journalism, photography, and technology. In 1995, she co-founded Picture Projects to pioneer investigations in online documentary practices. Her collaborations while there include 360degrees.org—Perspectives on the US Criminal Justice System and SonicMemorial.org, an online repository for stories about the World Trade Center. After leaving Picture Projects in 2003, Johnson moved to South Africa where she co-produced Mandela:...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
04/05/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
Artist Talk: TERAH MAHER
Presented by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts March 8, 2012 Film animator Terah Maher speaks on her work: Maher received a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2006 and her BA in Architecture from Yale University in 1999. Her design work investigates the potentials of constructing narrative experience within physical spaces. She recently designed and co-curated (with Ruth Lingford) the exhibition Frame by Frame, Animated at Harvard at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (2010). She has worked as production...
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Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
03/08/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
ArtisTalk: Laurie Simmons
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 20, 2012 Laurie Simmons has been staging scenes for the camera that feature dolls, dollhouses, and other toy objects since the 1970s. Simmons’ interest in creating and photographing small self-contained worlds that often touch on themes of nostalgia and memory echoes Feininger’s practice of recording miniature wooden villages, model yachts, and mannequins in shop windows.
ArtisTalk is a new six-part series of lectures by and conversations with some of today’s most...
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Harvard Art Museums |
03/20/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
ArtisTalk: Todd Hido
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 10, 2012 With a tripod, Todd Hido makes night photographs of suburban neighborhoods, using long exposures to capture the effects of fog, and light from streetlamps and windows. Hido’s project relates closely to Feininger’s atmospheric night photographs of the Bauhaus building and the surrounding neighborhood.
ArtisTalk is a new six-part series of lectures by and conversations with some of today’s most thought-provoking artists. Artistic practice is an essential form of...
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Harvard Art Museums |
04/10/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
ArtisTalk: Vera Lutter
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 28, 2012 In the 1990s, Vera Lutter began to transform rooms into large pinhole cameras in order to create wall-size negative images of architectural subjects. Her ambitious and innovative engagement with this process resonates with Lyonel Feininger’s exploration of the stark contrasts and otherworldly effects of the negative print, which he began to explore at the Bauhaus in the late 1920s.
ArtisTalk is a new six-part series of lectures by and conversations with some of...
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Harvard Art Museums |
02/28/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Author Daniel Byman discusses his recent book
Presented by Crown Center for Middle East Studies March 1, 2012 Author Daniel Byman discusses his recent book, "A High Price: The Triumphs & Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism" (Oxford, 2011). Dr. Byman is a professor in the School of Foreign Service and was director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program and Center for Peace and Security Studies from 2005 until 2010. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Presented in partnership with the Crown Center for Middle East...
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Crown Center for Middle East Studies |
03/01/12 |
Brandeis University, Alumni Lounge, Usdan Student Center, Waltham |
Author Julie Orringer at the JCC
Presented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC March 21, 2012 Author Julie Orringer will discuss her novel, The Invisible Bridge, at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center on Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30pm. Named Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe and Washington Post, The Invisible Bridge is a love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris in the 1930s. It is a tale of three brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and the chronicle of one family’s struggle against the forces that threaten to annihilate it. ...
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Leventhal-Sidman JCC |
03/21/12 |
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton Centre |
Author Series Featuring Nancy Gertner
Presented by The College Club of Boston February 28, 2012 Nancy Gertner, former criminal and civil rights attorney and Federal District Judge, will discuss her experiences as a woman in a male-dominated profession and her recent memoir, "In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate". Reception at 6:00 PM, author's presentation, dinner and dessert at 6:30 PM. Seating is limited, reservations required. Please email or call.
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The College Club of Boston |
02/28/12 |
The College Club, Boston |