Events
| Name |
Organization |
Dates |
Location |
Christopher Willcock, S.J.: “The Harrowing of Hell: A Performance of Anastasis”
Presented by Boston College at Boston College Gasson Hall, Room 100 April 1, 2012 Christopher Willcock, S.J., speaks at the Spring 2012 Gasson Lecture. His lecture is titled, "The Harrowing of Hell: A Performance of Anastasis." "Anastasis" performed La Bande Sonore, Choir and Soloists. John Finney, conductor.
|
Boston College |
04/01/12 |
Boston College Gasson Hall, Room 100, Chestnut Hill |
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,...
|
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
04/01/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
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...
|
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) |
04/02/12 |
ACT cube, Cambridge |
Winslow Homer’s Pitching Quoits
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 4, 2012 Melissa Renn, Senior Curatorial Research Associate, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums; Judy Murray, Senior Museum Educator, Harvard Art Museums
This talk will place Winslow Homer’s 1865 painting Pitching Quoits in the context of the American Civil War and will explore its relevance to viewers today. Renn will review Homer's career as an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly during the Civil War, and will look at how that...
|
Harvard Art Museums |
04/04/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Curator Tour with Dina Deitsch
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum April 5, 2012 Tour The 2012 deCordova Biennial with one of the exhibition co-curators. The public will have a chance to gain a curatorial perspective behind conceiving an exhibition showcasing innovative New England artists.
|
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum |
04/05/12 |
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln |
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:...
|
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
04/05/12 |
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge |
Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 7, 2012 Joanna Wendel, PhD candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
This gallery talk will address a selection of drawings and watercolors by Lyonel Feininger from the recent William S. Lieberman bequest to the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Although Feininger is best known as a painter of prismatic seascapes and medieval architecture, he also produced a vast body of drawings that showcase his ceaseless experimentation with technique, subject matter, and...
|
Harvard Art Museums |
04/07/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
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.
|
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum |
04/07/12 |
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln |
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...
|
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) |
04/09/12 |
ACT cube, 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...
|
Harvard Art Museums |
04/10/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Brenda Wineapple: On the Brink of War – Literary Boston in 1860
Presented by Boston College at Devlin Hall April 11, 2012 Brenda Wineapple’s most recent book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2008), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, a winner of the Washington Arts Club National Award for arts writing, and a New York Times "Notable Book.”
|
Boston College |
04/11/12 |
Devlin Hall, 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.
|
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
04/11/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
Landscape Lecture Series: Michael Van Valkenburg, Principal, Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.
Presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum April 12, 2012 Organized by Consulting Curator of Landscape Charles Waldheim/Urban Agency, the inaugural Landscape Lectures will address how landscape design has changed the shape of American cities and open spaces in recent years, representing a shift in the way designers approach the challenges of urban life.
“The Landscape Lectures will focus on contemporary issues in urban landscape design and the renewal of our connection with the environment and with land itself,” said...
|
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
04/12/12 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
Verdi's LA TRAVIATA
Presented by Rockport Music at Shalin Liu Performance Center April 14, 2012 Surround Sound and Reserved Seating!
Rockport Music’s live HD Broadcasts feature pre-opera lunches on the third floor reception hall; lunches must be purchased separately by calling the box office at 978-546-7391 (M-F, 10-4).
Pre-opera talks with musicologist Elizabeth Seitz take place on select dates throughout the season.
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew...
|
Rockport Music |
04/14/12 |
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport |
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...
|
Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine |
04/16/12 -
04/18/12 |
Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston |
Feininger in the Darkroom
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 18, 2012 Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums; Penley Knipe, Philip and Lynn Straus Conservator of Works of Art on Paper, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums
In 1928 the painter and Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger took up the camera and began to explore a range of avant-garde photographic techniques with stunning results. This gallery talk, given in...
|
Harvard Art Museums |
04/18/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Mixed Taste: Tag-team Lectures on Unrelated Topics: Machiavelli & Food Trucks
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston April 18, 2012 Al Miner moderates this quirky participatory program that proves learning can be fun. Author Miles J. Unger speaks first about Machiavelli. Then entrepreneur Ayr Muir talks about food trucks, followed by a question-and-answer session on both topics?at the same time. During the first part of the program, speakers do not make connections between topics, but during the question-and-answer session anything can happen! Tonight has potential for epiphanies, ironies, and unique insights.
Food truck...
|
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
04/18/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
Readings with a Twist
Presented by Boston Book Festival at Think Tank Bistrotheque April 19, 2012 If you're tired of the same old literary reading scene, imagine how the authors must feel! We're going to shake things up by inviting some up-and-coming literary talent (including Busy Monsters author William Giraldi) and mixing them with some professional readers (including Radio Boston's Adam Ragusea). You'll never hear dialogue the same way again! Dramatic, funny, confrontational, unexpected--no matter what, it's sure to be fantastic.
|
Boston Book Festival |
04/19/12 |
Think Tank Bistrotheque, Cambridge |
Shakespeare Recycled
Presented by The Hanover Theatre at The Hanover Theatre April 21, 2012 This special Access Hanover event is presented in conjunction with the 11th Annual Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference at Assumption College, where students participate in a performance workshop and present scenes from some of Shakespeare’s best known plays. Be part of the analysis and discussion as young Shakespeare scholars share their talents and passion for England’s National Poet. Free to participants of the Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference
|
The Hanover Theatre |
04/21/12 |
The Hanover Theatre, Worcester |
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...
|
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) |
04/23/12 |
ACT cube, Cambridge |
Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Presented by Boston College April 25, 2012 Award-winning science writer Rebecca Skloot has made a career of probing the intersections between hard science and human experience; the resulting stories have been as varied as cellular research and cancer, medical care for pet goldfish, and the science behind personal motivation. In her bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010), Skloot tells the story of a young black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951 and left behind an inexplicably immortal line of cells...
|
Boston College |
04/25/12 |
|
The Boston Mob Guide
Presented by Old South Meeting House at Old South Meeting House April 25, 2012 The capture of James “Whitey” Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history. Yet the city’s criminal underworld has a long and bloody rap sheet that stretches back to the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Boston journalists Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow reveal the real story of the underbelly of Boston through profiles of ruthless gangsters and the backrooms and seedy hangouts where deadly hits and lucrative heists were hatched. This program is funded in part...
|
Old South Meeting House |
04/25/12 |
Old South Meeting House, Boston |
Framingham High School Poetry Slam Finals
Presented by Amazing Things Arts Center at Amazing Things Art Center April 25, 2012 Framingham High School will hold the final round of its eighth annual poetry slam. A "slam:" is a competition between teams of poets who perform their own original work, bringing poetry off the page and onto the stage in a gloves-off, no-holds-barred verbal boxing match with judges chosen randomly from the audience. This FHS slam began as a class project in 2004, and turned into a school-wide, and now community-wide event.
Seven preliminary rounds consisting of 50 teams...
|
Amazing Things Arts Center |
04/25/12 |
Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham |
New Views on Roman Gold Coins Found in Britain
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 26, 2012 Roger Bland, Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, The British Museum
This talk draws from a recent project to catalogue all finds of Roman and early Byzantine gold coins from Britain. The study reveals that Britain was not the poor province on the edge of the Roman Empire it was once thought to be. The speaker will highlight some of the most spectacular finds and new discoveries.
Free admission.
Reception to follow lecture. Limited...
|
Harvard Art Museums |
04/26/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Masterpiece Lecture Series: Jas' Elsner, Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow In Classical Art
Presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum April 26, 2012 Anchoring the corner of the North and West Cloisters is the dramatic sarcophagus "Revelers Gathering Grapes." This large rectangular coffin depicts satyrs and maenads gathering grapes and is one of the most important objects of ancient art in the Gardner collection. Jas' Elsner, professor and scholar of the art of the Roman Empire, will consider the sarcophagus in its social and religious context in the Roman world.
Jas’ Elsner is a professor and scholar of the...
|
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
04/26/12 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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...
|
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
04/25/12 -
04/26/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
The Federal Theatre Project
Presented by The Hanover Theatre at The Hanover Theatre April 28, 2012 The Federal Theatre Project was the largest and most ambitious effort ever mounted by the federal government to produce theatre events across the United States. An effort of the FDR administration to provide work for unemployed actors and theatre professionals during the Great Depression, the Federal Theatre Project gave birth to many new works, including some so controversial that they later became labeled as detrimental to the security of the nation. Conducted by Nora Long, dramaturg at...
|
The Hanover Theatre |
04/28/12 |
The Hanover Theatre, Worcester |
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!
|
Boston College |
04/26/12 -
04/28/12 |
Boston College, O'Neill Plaza Event Center, Chestnut Hill |
Playwrights on the Ground featuring Naomi Iizuka
Presented by Wheaton College April 30, 2012 A series featuring some of the most prominent playwright-intellectuals working in the American and international theatre today, coordinated by associate professor of playwriting Charlotte Meehan. Iizuka teaches at the University of California-San Diego and is the author of several plays including Polaroid Stories and Language Of Angels.
|
Wheaton College |
04/30/12 |
May Room, Mary Lyon Hall, Norton |
In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Lyonel Feininger: Photographs
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 2, 2012 Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art
American-born modernist Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) is most closely identified with his luminous prismatic paintings of medieval German towns and churches, but he was also a gifted and surprisingly innovative photographer. This lecture will explore Harvard’s extensive holdings of the artist’s little-known photographic work.
This popular...
|
Harvard Art Museums |
05/02/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |