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Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko
Harvard Double Header
By: - Jan 12th, 2022Krzysztof Wodiczko lives and works in New York City and is currently professor in residence at the Art, Design, and the Public Domain Masters of Design program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Previously, he served as the director of the Interrogative Design Group at MIT and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS). He has been a professor in the Visual Arts Program since 1991.
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The Band’s Visit
Touring Company in San Francisco
By: - Jan 14th, 2022The biggest star of The Band's Visit is the music. Lyrics in the sung songs are witty and divulging, and the accompanying music is pleasant throughout, with eclectic influences from American pop to klezmer to bossanova. Some of the stylings are a little rough, which at first may suggest poor casting, but on further consideration, less than perfect renditions work well. After all, the characters represented are not singers, they are working class.
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Tootsie
Non-Equity National Touring Production Playing in South Florida
By: - Jan 14th, 2022A non-equity national touring production of the stage musical adaptation of Tootsie is playing the Broward Center for Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale. The uneven production will remain in Ft. Lauderdale through Jan. 23. For showtimes and ticket information, go to https://fortlauderdale.broadway.com/shows/tootsie.
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Celebration of Black Voices — Ain’t I A Woman
Streamed Free by Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jan 19th, 2022Written by Shirley Edgerton and Felicia Robertson and directed by Shirley Edgerton and Ted Thomas, Ain’t I A Woman tells the stories of unsung African American heroines. Members of the Women of Color Giving Circle, Rites of Passage and Empowerment program, Youth Alive and other community members perform. Wanda Houston is the guest artist, telling the story and singing the songs of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Hirshhorn Museum Acquisition
Yayoi Kusama. Infinity Mirrored Room—My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe
By: - Jan 20th, 2022In a landmark collaboration between two leading U.S. modern and contemporary art museums, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced today the joint acquisition of an important immersive artwork by Yayoi Kusama. Infinity Mirrored Room—My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe (2018) will receive its East Coast debut when One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection opens at the Hirshhorn this spring; dates to be announced.
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Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges Wine Auction
Sunday March 20, 2022
By: - Jan 21st, 2022"After a series of sunny vintages starting in 2018, the 2021 vintage at Domaine des Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges has seen a return to pure Burgundy tradition: perfect balance, clear typicity, small yield wines, and incredible balance," says Jean Marc Moron, Technical Manager of this estate, with its 13 hectares of vineyards.
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Almost, Maine
At Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach
By: - Jan 21st, 2022Almost, Maine is a romantic comedy with magical realism. In magical realism, fantastical things happen within a realistic setting. However, the characters accept the otherworldly occurrences as normal. Almost, Maine runs through Jan. 30 at Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida.
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Renee Fleming, Uma Thurman, Emerson Quartet at Carnegie Hall
Weaving Kevin Puts, Philip Glass, Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn
By: - Jan 23rd, 2022Tom Stoppard prefers rock and pop, but he contributes mightily to a musical monologue written with Andre Previn and sung and spoken by Renee Fleming and Uma Thurman with the splendid Emerson Quartet and Simone Dinnerstein.
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Vienna Blood on PBS
Freudian Detective Team
By: - Jan 24th, 2022Max Liebermann, rivetingly played by English actor Matthew Beard, is a young brilliant former student of Sigmund Freud, who now helps the Viennese police department and Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt (Jurgen Maurer), investigate a series of gruesome and violent murders that are terrorizing Vienna.
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Grease
A co-production in South Florida
By: - Jan 24th, 2022South Florida-based companies present a rousing production of the classic musical, "Grease." The co-production between MNM Theatre Company and North End Theater Company runs through Jan. 30 at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center. During the reviewed performance, one could spot audience members wearing outfits emblazoned with the words "T-birds" and "Pink Ladies."
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North Atlantic Triennial
Co-organized by ,Portland Museum of Art, Reykjavík Art Museum, Bildmuseet
By: - Jan 26th, 2022As the North Atlantic gateway for the United States, the State of Maine has a longstanding history with the nations and peoples who reside in our proverbial front yard. Co-organized by the Portland Museum of Art, the Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland, and the Bildmuseet, Sweden, the North Atlantic Triennial is the first exhibition devoted entirely to contemporary art of the North Atlantic region.
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Peabody Essex Museum Opens a New Gallery
On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America
By: - Jan 26th, 2022On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America brings together more than 250 historical and contemporary works from its collections to consider what it means to belong to a community, place, family and nation. Spanning more than 10,000 years of visual culture, the installation offers a range of voices and modes of expression, cultures expressed through different media, including sculpture, paintings, textiles and fashion, furniture, decorative arts, photography and video.
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The Berkshire Art Association
Call For Art
By: - Jan 28th, 2022The Berkshire Art Association (BAA) seeks contemporary art for its biennial show at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, planned for October 7 - November 26 at the Lichtenstein Center, 28 Renne Avenue, Pittsfield, MA
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WOODSTOCK AIR 2022
Deadline to Submit: Monday, March 7
By: - Jan 28th, 2022Supporting photography-based artists, writers, and curators and the dialogue around diversity, race, identity, and social justice. The Center for Photography at Woodstock seeking applicants for residences.
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New England Public Media
New England Equity Reporting Fellowship
By: - Jan 28th, 2022Three journalists from New England Public Media have been selected to participate in the inaugural 2022 New England Equity Reporting Fellowship.
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Barrington Stage Company 2022
Julianne Boyd's Final Season as Artistic Director
By: - Jan 29th, 2022Barrington Stage Company, will produce a 2022 season that will feature two Tony Award-winning musicals, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, four world premieres and one of the true absurdist masterpieces of 20th century theatre. The 2022 season marks Julianne Boyd’s final season as Artistic Director prior to her retirement at the end of September.
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New York City Opera's World Premiere
Joins with National Yiddish Folksbiene at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
By: - Jan 30th, 2022Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a novel and a movie, inspire Ricky Ian Gordo's new opera. A lush production at the Museum of Jewish Heritage shows us NYCO alive and well.
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Follies at Clark Art Institute
Honors Composer Stephen Sondheim a graduate of Williams College
By: - Jan 31st, 2022The Clark Art Institute airs an encore presentation of Follies, a production of London’s National Theatre, on Saturday, February 26 at 1 pm. Follies is being shown to honor the memory of its composer, Stephen Sondheim, a graduate of Williams College, who maintained ties to Williamstown throughout his life.
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Rafael Mahdavi Trying to Get Home
An Odyssey of Variations on Four Masterpieces
By: - Jan 31st, 2022The artist Rafael Mahdavi speaks several languages and is a citizen of the world. He most identifies with America and Spain but describes himself as an exile. Trying to Get Home is a series of four paintings that convey a spirit quest and odyssey.
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World Premiere and Critics’ Favorite Mr. Parent
Streaming by Boston's Lyric Stage
By: - Feb 02nd, 2022After a critically acclaimed run, the Lyric Stage Company of Boston announces that streaming of the World Premiere production of Mr. Parent by Melinda Lopez with Maurice Emmanuel Parent* and co-conceived and directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian° will begin on February 7 and be available through February 20.
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Knock Me a Kiss by Playwright Charles Smith
Staged Reading by Shakespeare & Company
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022The performance precedes the memorial service and burial of Dr. Yolande Du Bois Williams Irvin, the granddaughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, at the family gravesite at the Mahaiwe Cemetery in Great Barrington. Other Dr. Yolande Du Bois Williams Irving Memorial events will be hosted by BRIDGE as part of the Town of Great Barrington's fifth annual W.E.B. Du Bois Legacy Festival, marking a special reparations moment in racial justice organizing.
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2022 Boston Artadia Awards
Grants for Three Artists
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022The 2022 Boston Artadia Awards will annually provide $10,000 in unrestricted funds to three visual artists living and working in the vibrant arts communities of Boston. The Artadia awards are designed to provide essential funding and recognition to artists at pivotal points in their careers, strengthen arts communities, and spur new levels of career achievement.
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Terence Blanchard's Champion at Boston Lyric Opera
Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe to Perform
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022Stephanie Blythe makes her role debut as the welcoming and supportive bar owner Kathy Hagen in Champion. A renowned opera singer and recitalist, Blythe is among the most highly respected artists of her generation.
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Angry, Raucous & Shamelessly Gorgeous
At Hartford Stage
By: - Feb 04th, 2022The actress, Anna has returned to the US from Amsterdam where she has lived for 25 years. She left the US after the “Naked Wilson” theater piece she devised and performed became the subject of controversy. Now, she has returned to Atlanta to, she thinks, perform the piece for the last time at a new arts festival.
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Authority and Freedom by Jed Perl
Ancient Dichotomy in Art
By: - Feb 05th, 2022At the end of his life did the wrong politics give Auden the possibility of cancelling Yeats’s greatness as a poet. It suggests that behind the concern for art being politically correct is the illness that Nietzsche said awaited our culture as a whole: the waste land grows: Resentment or “Ressentiment” as he used it is the deeply sour well out from which we channel art into predetermined realms of activity. Perl's new book is its diagnosis.
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