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The Art of Love, Lust, and Laughter: Poems and Stories from the Heart
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston February 12, 2012 We may not know what love is, but we sure know what love does! Join Regie Gibson, Simone Beaubien, and surprise musicians as they team up with professional and non-professional writers (one could be you!) for an hour of poetry, stories, and music celebrating the beauty, bawdiness, and betrayals of that most unpredictable of predicaments: love!
Send us your works of love!
For guidelines and selection process, visit The Fine Art of Love at Blogspot. Please send your original, insightful,...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
02/12/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
NEWTON’S REVOLUTIONARY ROOTS – THE 2012 NEWTON HISTORY SERIES
Presented by Historic Newton at Newton Free Library February 13, 2012 NEWTON’S REVOLUTIONARY ROOTS – THE 2012 NEWTON HISTORY SERIES
Boston, Newton, and the Revolution
This talk will explore the relationship between Boston and its rural neighbors, including Newton, during the American Revolution. The leaders of the resistance against Great Britain made a massive effort to mobilize throughout Massachusetts. The Durant family and their community offer an excellent opportunity to see this revolutionary process at work. Benjamin Carp,...
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Historic Newton |
02/13/12 |
Newton Free Library, Newton |
Writing is Live presented by Brown University TAPS-- Festival of new works by Brown playwrights
Presented by Brown University Theatre Arts and Performance Studies February 3-February 13, 2012 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University proudly announces the third annual Writing is Live festival, a presentation of new works featuring six plays by writers in Brown’s graduate and undergraduate theatre programs. Writing is Live celebrates the diversity and strength of new theatrical voices while simultaneously exploring the meaning of text in performance. Performance writing may take forms complete and incomplete,...
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Brown University Theatre Arts and Performance Studies |
02/03/12 -
02/13/12 |
Brown University, Providence |
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 |
In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Doris Salcedo
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 15, 2012 Mary Schneider Enriquez, Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art
Doris Salcedo’s chair, Untitled (2004–5), is a sculpture that at once plays with Duchamp’s concept of the “readymade” and stands as enduring witness to the violence that ravages many societies in the world today. This lecture will examine the evolution of Salcedo’s oeuvre since the 1980s, placing this piece...
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Harvard Art Museums |
02/15/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
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 |
The Lowell Humanities Series and Fiction Days Present Junot Diaz
Presented by Boston College February 15, 2012 Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.
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Boston College |
02/15/12 |
Murray Function Room, Yawkey Athletic Center, Chestnut Hill |
The New York Times Magazine: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston February 15, 2012 Kathy Ryan, director of photography, The New York Times Magazine
While showing some of The New York Times Magazine?s most iconic images from the past 25 years, Kathy Ryan peppers her talk with intriguing insights and anecdotes about photography. The talk spotlights the various genres in the magazine?photojournalism, fine arts portraiture, style, and photo illustration?and photographers work such as Nan Goldin, Thomas Struth, Gregory Crewdson, Abelardo Morell, and Jeff Koons.
Book signing...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
02/15/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
The Biology and Evolution of Mollusks
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History February 16, 2012 From tiny barnacles to the giant clam (Tridacna gigas), mollusks are the most diverse and widely distributed family of marine invertebrates. Professor Gonzalo Giribet, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at Harvard’s MCZ, will discuss how scientists are decoding the Mollusca genetic family tree to learn how they’ve adapted, survived, and thrived since the pre-Cambrian era, and to explore the potential benefits of mollusks from medicine to human health, and other fields.
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
02/16/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
Boston Neighborhood History Series: Roslindale
Presented by Old South Meeting House at Old South Meeting House February 16, 2012 It is said that Roslindale shares its name with no other place! When the community applied for a Post Office, they needed a distinct name and came together to agree on the name “Roslindale.” Cathy Slade, President of the Roslindale Historical Society, will share stories of the thriving and accepting community that has developed over the years.
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Old South Meeting House |
02/16/12 |
Old South Meeting House, 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 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 |
ZIP Code Stories Live
Presented by Boston Book Festival at Think Tank Bistrotheque February 16, 2012 Inspired by the popular Radio Boston series, we're bringing together Boston-area authors Holly LeCraw, Steve Macone, and Dawn Tripp to read very short stories inspired by Boston-area ZIP codes. Attendees can also sign up at the door for a chance to represent their neighborhood and read their own 500-word ZIP code stories during our open mic. Hosted by Henriette Lazaridis Power, editor of The Drum, and Anthony Brooks, co-host of Radio Boston.
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Boston Book Festival |
02/16/12 |
Think Tank Bistrotheque, Cambridge |
The Mechanics and 21st Century Technology: Inside the Mighty Wurlitzer
Presented by The Hanover Theatre at The Hanover Theatre February 18, 2012 The Hanover Theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ is a wonderful blend of traditional building techniques and modern day technology. Join Curator Don Phipps and his team to learn about the mechanics that control the instrument’s 2,400 pipes. Find out how modern technology is used to create flexibility and control. Sample components of the organ will be on display and tours of the organ chamber will be available followed by a special mini concert by resident organist Len...
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The Hanover Theatre |
02/18/12 |
The Hanover Theatre, Worcester |
Primary Source Concert: Mozart and Beethoven
Presented by Primary Source Concerts February 18, 2012 Primary Source Concert: “Between House and Stage: Public and Private Music Making in the 18th Century” Mozart’s “ The Magic Flute” arranged for String Quartet [1797] Beethoven’s Septet for winds and strings, opus 20 Gabriela Diaz, Gabriel Boyers, Margaret Dyer, David Russell, Ben Seltzer, Anne Howarth, Adam Smith, David Goodchild On Display: First and Early editions of the Magic Flute, including the chamber music arrangements to be performed, together...
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Primary Source Concerts |
02/18/12 |
Goethe-Institut Boston, Boston |
Science on Screen: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Presented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre February 20, 2012 Woody Allen intertwines two storylines in this penetrating, acidly funny tale about the complexity of human choices and the moral microcosms they represent. Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau) is a prominent ophthalmologist and family man who resorts to desperate measures when his mistress threatens to ruin his life. Meanwhile, married documentary filmmaker Cliff Stern (Woody Allen) woos an attractive production assistant (Mia Farrow) while directing a profile of his brother-in-law (a priceless...
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Coolidge Corner Theatre |
02/20/12 |
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline |
Young Voices in Russian Literature
Presented by Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University February 22, 2012 A new generation of Russian writers visits Harvard: Young authors, all finalists for Russia’s Debut Prize, will read their work and discuss art and freedom in today’s Russia. This is a critical juncture in the history of Russia—the Perestroika and post-Soviet generations are being displaced by a new generation for which the USSR is mere history. Theirs is a complex new Russia, which they strive to represent in their literary works.
For over a...
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University |
02/22/12 |
Center for Government and International Studies, South Building, Cambridge |
Unmet: Opera for the 21st Century
Presented by Oberon at Oberon February 22, 2012 Leave your opera glasses at home and forget that stodgy tenor in 18th-century garb! Juventas New Music Ensemble invites you to experience opera in the future over an evening drink. Scenes from new operas by emerging composers will explore love, war, death and magic, placing you directly in the middle of the action. Escape the daily grind and allow yourself to be drawn in by the allure of unparalleled sights, sounds, and emotions. A conversation with composers will take place immediately...
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Oberon |
02/22/12 |
Oberon, Cambridge |
Boston Neighborhood History Series: South End
Presented by Old South Meeting House at Old South Meeting House February 23, 2012 Created on landfill, the South End was designed by famed architect Charles Bulfinch who brought his eye for balance to this neighborhood in 1801. But by the 1970s neglect, arson, and demolition had destroyed more than a quarter of the area’s original buildings. Hope Shannon, Director of the South End Historical Society, tells how citizens came together to save the historical treasures of their community, and in 1972 placed The South End on the National Register of Historic Places as...
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Old South Meeting House |
02/23/12 |
Old South Meeting House, Boston |
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 |
Masterpiece Lecture Series: Glenn D. Lowry, Director, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum February 23, 2012 The Masterpiece Lectures will reconnect audiences with the Museum’s collection through talks that both celebrate and question the concept of the “masterpiece.” The series is conceived by new Curator of the Collection Oliver Tostmann, in collaboration with Curator of Contemporary Art Pieranna Cavalchini and Esther Stiles Eastman Curator of Education and Public Programs Margaret Burchenal.
“The word ‘masterpiece’ has different meanings across...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
02/23/12 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
Faith Healing, Vaccination, and the First Amendment
Presented by Massachusetts Historical Society at Massachusetts Historical Society February 23, 2012 Alan Rogers, Professor of History at Boston College, will explore the challenges and choices involved in defining and balancing individual freedom and the common good. He will discuss two current research projects: the contested intersection of faith healing and the First Amendment; and a history of the anti-vaccination movement from 1721 to the present.
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Massachusetts Historical Society |
02/23/12 |
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston |
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 25, 2012 Michelle Lamunière, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums; Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums
This gallery talk will highlight a selection of recent acquisitions that illustrates the breadth of approaches to contemporary photographic practice. In addition to work by major...
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Harvard Art Museums |
02/25/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Curator Tour with Abigail Ross Goodman
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum February 25, 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.
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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum |
02/25/12 |
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln |
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 |
The Barber of Seville
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston February 26, 2012 ?The Sins of my Old Age??Rossini Tells All!
Join arts and entertainment critic Joyce Kulhawik in a unique ?Live interview? with Signor Rossini?raconteur, gourmand, bon vivant, and composer of that irresistible masterpiece The Barber of Seville--played by actor Patrick Shea. BLO Emerging Artists give audiences several ebullient examples of Rossini?s melodic brilliance and unsurpassed musical wit.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
02/26/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
Gallery Talk: Kelly Sherman
Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) February 26, 2012 Boston-based artist Kelly Sherman—winner of the 2006 James and Audrey Foster Prize—addresses complex narratives about relationships, loss, and love using seemingly mundane analytical systems and structures such as diagrams, lists, and floor plans. Sherman discusses Gonzalez-Torres’s work on view in Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams, providing insight on how artists imbue ordinary objects with emotion and sentiment.
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Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) |
02/26/12 |
Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA), Boston |
Spring 2012 Programs at Brookline Music School
Presented by Brookline Music School at Brookline Music School January 31-June 17, 2012 Brookline Music School’s Term II (Spring) programs run January 31-June 17, 2012, offering a variety of classes and private instruction for all ages and abilities. Programs offered include early childhood music and movement and dance classes, Suzuki instruction, group classes including Beginning Piano, Group Voice, Music Technology, Garage Band, iPad Band, Theory, and Jazz/Rock/Pop, Chamber and Flute Choir ensembles for kids, teens and adults. For detailed information visit...
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Brookline Music School |
01/31/12 -
06/17/12 |
Brookline Music School, Brookline |
New Photographic Exhibit: Life in the Extreme Deep - Harvard Museum of Natural History
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History October 12, 2011-June 30, 2012 Harvard Museum of Natural History announces a new photographic exhibit opening in the museum lobby on October 12, showcasing the research of Harvard’s Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences Peter R. Girguis and stunning deep-sea photographs by scientists who work in the field with Professor Girguis. Life in the Extreme Deep will remain on display through June 2012.
In conjunction with the photographic exhibit, the museum will offer a lecture by Harvard biologist...
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
10/12/11 -
06/30/12 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |
Mollusks: Shelled Masters of the Marine Realm
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History February 18, 2012-February 28, 2013 Mollusks: Shelled Masters of the Marine Realm, a new exhibition opening February 18, 2012 at Harvard Museum of Natural History, will explore mollusks' amazing diversity and feature recent discoveries about their evolutionary history. Mollusks are amazingly varied in both size and anatomical structure, as well as in their behaviors and habitats. First appearing in the fossil record in the Cambrian period more than 500 million years ago, mollusks include the brainy cephalopods such as...
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Harvard Museum of Natural History |
02/18/12 -
02/28/13 |
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge |