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Peabody Essex Museum Honors Fashion Icon Iris Apfel
First Iris Apfel Award to Tommy Hilfiger
By: - Sep 09th, 2021On Friday, September 17, at 7 pm, Iris will present the very first Iris Apfel Award to Tommy Hilfiger in a virtual event, which will also be screened at PEM as part of its Friday late-night programming. Iris selected Tommy as someone who is a creative force in the industry, and as someone who demonstrates excellence in design in balance with good business sense.
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The Winter’s Tale
At Cal Shakes
By: - Sep 10th, 2021Shakespeare’s infrequently produced “The Winter’s Tale” is often characterized as a “problem play,” meaning that its tone is inconsistent – sometimes dramatic with psychological overtones, sometimes comic with mystic qualities.
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Linda Leslie Brown's Entangled
November at Kingston Gallery
By: - Sep 10th, 2021Linda Leslie Brown’s recent sculptural work draws upon the transformative exchanges between nature, objects, and viewers' creative perceptions. Her practice involves the assemblage of objects and fragments of plastic, metal, wood, fiber, glass, rubber, and foam, which have been scavenged from the streets of Boston and other castoff sources like dumps and thrift shops.
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Liz Shepherd: Ungathered
At Boston Sculptors Gallery
By: - Sep 12th, 2021Ungathered is a remembrance of Thanksgiving 2020, a day that people in the United States were denied life-long traditions of togetherness with family and friends due to the Covid 19 pandemic.
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Mellencamp By Paul Rees
Atria Books/Simon & Schuster
By: - Sep 12th, 2021Mellencamp is British writer Paul Rees’ story of a midwestern teenager growing into a musician who came to represent heartland rock, a term he disliked. The book, written with the cooperation and support of Mellencamp and his management, is highly readable, a blend of nonfiction and oral history, with many long quotes from interviews with Mellencamp, fellow musicians, friends and relatives who shared their perspectives with Rees.
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Art in the Barn at Mass Audubon
Two Perspectives on the Natural World: Ghetta Hirsch & Carolyn Newberger
By: - Sep 13th, 2021Experience differing views of nature during Two Perspectives, which opens on September 18 as part of ArtWeek Berkshires. The show will be hosted at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Lenox in the sanctuary's historic 18th century barn.
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Starting Here, Starting Now
San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Sep 13th, 2021Unlike most revues, this one also demands acting out the songs, and on this count, the artists excel, making the drama work. Dance and blocking choreographed by Nicole Helfer provide visual dynamics. Lovers of musical revues who like the cerebral and the discovery of unfamiliar music and lyrics will appreciate this production.
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Ready To Cast Off at Blue Heron Gallery Online
By Artists Duo schiffernolandstudio
By: - Sep 14th, 2021Blue Heron Gallery Online, a virtual art gallery, will be presenting the work of schiffernolandstudio, a Peggy Schiffer and Sam Noland collaborative. In both the abstract works and the real-life works, digital images are created and joined in series. In the case of the abstract work, paintings are created on glass and photographed; the paintings are then washed off and the glass is reused. The digital image becomes the art. In the case of the other photographs, they are presented in a way that tells a story.
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Be Here Now at Lyric Stage
By Deborah Zoe Laufer
By: - Sep 15th, 2021A quirky romantic comedy about a professor of nihilism who experiences joy for the first time in her life.
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Boston Pops Holiday Concerts
Return to Live Music at Symphony Hall
By: - Sep 15th, 2021The Boston Pops announces the return of the ever-popular Holiday Pops season at Symphony Hall, December 2 through 24. Under the direction of Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart, the 2021 Holiday Pops season celebrates the reunion of the Pops with its devoted patrons, while the orchestra also welcomes new audience members to experience the sights and sounds of these special concerts with the one-and-only Boston Pops Orchestra.
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The Story Box Presented by Here
Suzi Takahashi Dramatizes Truth and Reconciliation
By: - Sep 16th, 2021Written and performed by Suzi Takahashi and directed by Kristin Marting, The Story Box explores the importance of safeguarding our civil rights through the lens of Japanese American identity. Using kamishibai (a traditional Japanese storytelling method), coupled with Takahashi’s own family history and original music, this show takes audience members on a 230-year journey through our country’s problematic treatment of Asian immigrants.
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The Clark Art Institute Fall/Winter Exhibitions
Competing Currents: 20th-Century Japanese Prints
By: - Sep 17th, 2021The Clark Art Institute announces its fall/winter 2021 exhibition schedule featuring two new exhibitions. Competing Currents: 20th-Century Japanese Prints explores two parallel Japanese print-making movements through the Clark’s collection of shin-hanga and s?saku-hanga works while Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and the Debate Over Colors explores the surprising but steady opposition to printed color over the nineteenth century in France. The yearlong exhibition Erin Shirreff: Remainders is on view through January 2, 2022.
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Morgan Bulkeley at Yezerski Gallery
Carved and Painted
By: - Sep 17th, 2021A resident of Western Massachusetts, Morgan Bulkeley was the subject of a retrospective at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. His career began as a seminal artist of the Boston scene. His exhibition at Yezerski Gallery remains on view through October 15.
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Boston Sculptors ALight on MARS!
Gloucester's Manship Artists Residency + Studios
By: - Sep 19th, 2021Inspired by the light and wonder of fireflies, 16 Boston Sculptors Gallery artists have been invited to exhibit their site-specific sculptural works on the grounds of the Manship Artists Residency + Studios (MARS) in Gloucester, MA. Paul Manship, celebrated sculptor of the Prometheus Fountain in New York City’s Rockefeller Center, established his summer residence and studio amid Cape Ann’s granite quarries.
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Angela's Ashes: The Musical
Irish Repertory Theatre's Frank McCourt's Memoir
By: - Sep 19th, 2021Angela’s Ashes, a musical based on Frank McCourt’s fictionalized memoir of his early family life, is presented now in its musical version by Irish Repertory Theatre. It is a conventional musical. Yet the memoir’s conventionality did not diminish the story’s deep resonance not only with immigrants, but with all readers who have experienced difficult childhoods.
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Abandoned Chicagoland: Rust on the Prairies
By Jerry Olejniczak and Arcadia Publishing
By: - Sep 20th, 2021This new book by Jerry Olejniczak is filled with images of sites demolished, transformed by decay, and sometimes overtaken by nature. Olejniczak (pronounced Oh-lay-KNEE-chalk) is an urbex photographer—a photographer as urban explorer.
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The Ojai Music Festival Is Now
John Adams Mixes a Potent Broth
By: - Sep 22nd, 2021The annual Ojai Music Festival is arguably the most exciting music event in this country. It “monitors the everchanging mood and directions of our musical atmosphere.” A challenge to be sure. A challenge which is richly met and then some.
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Was It Me by Andrea Fulton
Theatre for the New City is Live Again
By: - Sep 22nd, 2021Theater for the New City, Executive Director Crystal Field presents Andrea Fulton's Was it Me? Directed by Kymbali Craig, the play gives us a poignant peak into everyday life. Fulton probes the anguish of a woman burdened by an unresolved memory of a traumatizing assault in her childhood. Fulton brings the question of self blame to the fore as the woman asks: “Was it something about me that made this happen?"
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Young Composers at the Ojai Festival
Free to Be an Individual in Sound
By: - Sep 23rd, 2021John Adams writes about his release from the shackles binding him as a Northeastern composer in the US. Coming to California as a young man, he was at last able to write the music he heard, whatever shape it took. He was free to be an individual. Each of the young composers featured prominently in Ojai 2021 has clearly benefited from Adams’ experience.
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Kristy Edmunds Joins MASS MoCA
Second Director of North Adams Museum
By: - Sep 23rd, 2021The Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) announces that Kristy Edmunds has been appointed as its new Director, following a 10-month international search and a unanimous decision by the Board. Edmunds comes to MASS MoCA from UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), where she has served as the Executive and Artistic Director since 2011.
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Carolyn Newberger at Galatea Fine Arts
Drawing From Life: The Nude as Mirror and Muse
By: - Sep 26th, 2021Carolyn Newberger is a Berkshire based polymath. From October 1 through 31 she will exhibit Drawing From Life: The Nude as Mirror and Muse at Boston's Galatea Fine Arts. "Typically working in broad strokes on paper with watercolor and charcoal or ink, in twenty minutes or less I seek to bring onto the page the ineffable personhood of the model, his or her thoughtfulness, mental state, humor and distinctiveness," she says of this new work.
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Sculpture by Jared Abner and Steven Muller.
At Boston's HallSpace
By: - Sep 28th, 2021In "Wood Play" both artists are having fun with the materials and the forms. The work in this exhibition evokes that joy. Steve Muller's assembled sculptures play with sticks/lines, broken, abrupt, and jagged. They are simple intelligent collages, with a touch of wry humor. Jared Abner discovers forms by following the shapes and grain of the wood he is carving.
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Cleo Parker Robinson, Going the Distance
Celebrating 50 Years of Black dance
By: - Sep 29th, 2021Cleo Parker Robinson is celebrating the 51st anniversary of the founding of her dance troupe. Covid buried the 50th. This celebration had added sizzle. Live dance is happening at last.
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Clark Art Institute’s First Sundays
Free Admission on October 3
By: - Oct 01st, 2021The Clark Art Institute’s popular First Sundays Free program returns on Sunday, October 3. Admission to the galleries is free to all visitors for the entire day, but advance registration is strongly recommended.
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Gateways Inn in Downtown Lenox
Announces Jazz Series
By: - Oct 01st, 2021The Gateways Inn in downtown Lenox has announced a new jazz series, starting in October and running Thursdays through Saturdays, with a special concert on Sunday, Oct. 24. Presented in association with Berkshires Jazz, Inc., the series underscores the venue’s ongoing dedication to live music.
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