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Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy
Charlotte Van den Broeck Asks Interesting Questions
By: - Apr 02nd, 2023In Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy (Other Press), author Charlotte Van den Broeck asks some interesting questions: When is a mistake so all-encompassing that an individual feels he or she can’t go on? What is the line between creator and creation? If the art deconstructs, should the artist as well?
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Riopelle Dialogues Projects
Canadian Artists from Sea to Sea
By: - Apr 03rd, 2023The Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation, in collaboration with the Department of Canadian Heritage and Culture pour tous, is proud to announce the Canadian artists who have been selected to realize 9 cultural mediation projects as part of the Riopelle Dialogues Program, one of the most ambitious cultural mediation programs ever seen in Canada.
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MASS MoCA Summer 2023
Exhibitions and Programming
By: - Apr 05th, 2023MASS MoCA announces Summer 2023 programming including the exhibitions Joseph Grigely: In What Way Wham? (White Noise and Other Works, 1996-2023), on view beginning May 28, Anne Samat: Love, on view beginning June 24, and Elle Pérez: Intimacies, on view beginning July 22
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The Velvet Underground & Nico: Scepter Studio Sessions
Pittsburgh's Warhol Museum
By: - Apr 06th, 2023The Velvet Underground & Nico: Scepter Studio Sessions highlights the Velvet Underground and the music from their first recording sessions in April 1966 at Scepter Studios in New York City. The exhibition centers on the original tapes of the nine initial tracks recorded by the band, recently identified while processing Andy Warhol’s archive at The Warhol, which became the bedrock of their debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967, Verve Records), one of the most jarring and influential albums in rock music.
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Suzette Martin at UMASS
Apocalypse: Science and Myth
By: - Apr 10th, 2023Announcing the opening of my artist-in-residence exhibition at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at UMass, Amherst.
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A Distinct Society
Cruel Consequences of Misguided Regulations
By: - Apr 10th, 2023Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the border between the U.S. and Quebec Province in Canada as a result of a surveying error that occurred before the library was built. A line on the floor designates the border. The playwright has deftly used this real-life anomaly as the crucible for the play’s conflicts. After the Muslim Travel Ban of 2017, a kerfuffle arises as a result of a social media posting which suggests that the library is a good crossborder meeting place. The message is not lost on Muslims, particularly families with members on both sides of the divide.
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Portland Museum of Art Reinstalls Collection
Passages in American Art
By: - Apr 11th, 2023Passages in American Art is a fundamental reinterpretation of the collection, platforming multiple voices, revealing new ways of looking at some of the museum’s most beloved works of art, and inviting community members to drive the conversation. Opening May 27, 2023, the project examines the existing collection, and along with recent acquisitions, commissions, and select long-term loans, integrates Atlantic narratives and Indigenous perspectives to expand the story of American art.
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Boston Modern Opera Project to Carnegie
Gil Rose Celebrates 25th anniversary
By: - Apr 12th, 2023The Boston Modern Opera project is making its Carnegie Hall debut this weekend (April 15). Bostonians have had the privilege of hearing and seeing this company for many years. The program at Carnegie is enticing
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Honoring Julianne Boyd
The Berkshire Nonprofit Awards
By: - Apr 13th, 2023Barrington Stage Company announces that Founding Artistic Director Julianne Boyd will be honored with The Berkshire Nonprofit Awards Lifetime Achievement Award from The Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires, in partnership with The Berkshire Eagle on May 23.
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Poor Yella Rednecks - Vietgone 2
A Vietnamese Family in Arkansas - Strangers in a Strange Land
By: - Apr 15th, 2023With his highly successful “Vietgone,” playwright Qui Nguyen, told the beginning of his family’s immigrant story, following the fall of Saigon in the Vietnam War. His equally thoughtful and humorous sequel, “Poor Yella Rednecks,” continues the family’s saga. Amusingly, he writes himself in as a character in the play and facetiously disavows to the audience that its characters are real.
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Boston Modern Opera Project at Carnegie Hall
Case for Symphonic Sound Brilliantly Made
By: - Apr 17th, 2023BMOP continues its extended 25th Anniversary celebrations with a trip to Carnegie Hall. Featuring three works originally commissioned, premiered, and recorded by BMOP, "Play It Again" provides the capstone to the first 25 years of BMOP's mission. Andrew Norman's Play, Lei Liang's A Thousand Mountains, A Million Streams, and Lisa Bielawa's In medias res all receive their New York premieres on the historic Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage in Carnegie Hall.
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Tosca
Love, Intrigue, Betrayal, Death. It's Opera.
By: - Apr 17th, 2023Tosca has been one of the most performed operas in the world for over a century. There is a good reason for that. Beautiful music delights from curtain rise to fall, starting with the resounding orchestral chords of the Scarpia theme, and punctuated by memorable arias and powerful ensembles. Opera San José offers a beautifully staged and performed rendering that sears with passion.
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Bluebird & Co. To Tweet at Jiminy Peak
Mezze Opens New Resturant This Summer
By: - Apr 19th, 2023Mezze Hospitality Group will open Bluebird & Co., its forthcoming restaurant celebrating the outdoors, in Hancock, MA, near the base of Jiminy Peak. Bluebird & Co. is the group’s first new restaurant since selling allium, in Great Barrington, Mass., almost five years ago
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Sweeney Todd on Broadway
Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford
By: - Apr 26th, 2023Some may quibble, but I would see this production of Sweeney Todd anytime. It is changing my mind about the show.
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Minimalism at Town Hall
Bryce Dessner Gives the Form Its Full Richness
By: - Apr 26th, 2023Death of Classical, the brilliant music series conceived and curated by Andrew Ousley, was embedded in a Town Hall celebration of Minimalism. It was a spiritual lift of a special order, lighting the path to classical music’s future in neon reds and greens. The lush curtains draped at the back of the stage were bathed alternately in greens and blues and purples.
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Pippin
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts in South Florida
By: - Apr 26th, 2023Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts near Ft. Lauderdale has mounted an entertaining and energetic production of "Pippin." The 1972 musical is timely more than 50 years after it premiered on Broadway. PPTOPA's production takes place during the 1960's. Setting the show during that time period makes sense.
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Barrington Stage Company Announces Cast and Crews
The Happiest Man on Earth and Cabaret
By: - Apr 27th, 2023Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces full casting for the world premiere of Mark St. Germain’s new play The Happiest Man on Earth (May 24-June 17) and a new production of the legendary Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret (June 14-July 8).
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map
First Retrospective by Native Artist at Whitney Museum
By: - Apr 29th, 2023Now 82, at long last the Native American artist, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, is the subject of a retrospective at a major New York Museum. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map will be on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art from April 19 to August 13, 202
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The Sneaky Frank Lloyd Wright
From New Balance
By: - May 01st, 2023Aside from their earth tones, this footwear has nothing to do with Frank Lloyd Wright. As a branding strategy, it is an extremely strange choice for a contemporary sports shoe design.
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The Winter's Tale
At Hartford Stage
By: - May 02nd, 2023The Winter’s Tale can be a confusing play. Written late in Shakespeare’s career, it is usually grouped with The Tempest, Pericles, and Cymbeline, as one of the “romance” plays.
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Hoosic River Watershed Association
Invites Poets and Musicians
By: - May 02nd, 2023Hoosic River Watershed Association (HooRWA) invites poets and musicians in the Hoosic River Watershed to find inspiration and craft a poem, song, or instrumental piece about and for the Hoosic River and/or its tributaries.
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New Play Awards
ATCA Presents Annual Honors
By: - May 09th, 2023The 2023 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) New Play Award goes to "the ripple, the wave that carried me home." The 2023 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award goes to Madison Fiedler for her play, "Spay." ATCA also presents citations to Suzan-Lori Parks for her play, "Sally & Tom," and Rebecca Gilman for her piece, "Swing State."
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Champion at the Metropoitan Opera
Boxing, Gaydom, Blanchard all in the Mix
By: - May 09th, 2023The Metropolitan Opera’s heavily promoted Champion is concluding its run in New York. The first opera by Terrence Blanchard, which succeeds his Fire in My Bones at the Met, has a weaker score than its successor. One feels that Blanchard as composer of film scores (he is well-known as a colleague of Spike Lee), may have succumbed to the notion that music should lie under the visual track.
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William Flynn: 50 Years 50 Drawings
Boston's HallSpace
By: - May 11th, 2023Flynn has made hundreds, perhaps thousands of drawings over the last 50 years. Choosing just 50 (really 61) drawings is nearly an impossible task. William Flynn is an artist that spends days drawing. He finds ways to express the beauty in mundane objects; an old baseball mitt, ski boots, a bicycle that was run over and flattened, cars at junkyards, an old arm chair, pop-up books, whirly-gigs.
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Live from the Edge
At Long Wharf
By: - May 12th, 2023Live from the Edge by Universes has moments that will reach you emotionally. But the question remains, “What is it?” – Theater? A performance piece? A poetry slam? They describe themselves as a theater company, but I would describe it as being closer to a performance piece/poetry slam than theater.
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