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  • Peabody Essex Museum Honors Fashion Icon Iris Apfel

    First Iris Apfel Award to Tommy Hilfiger

    By: PEM - Sep 09th, 2021

    On 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.

  • Memories of Atrocities to Come –

    Published with Ref. to 9/11, WWII, and Today

    By: Astrid Hiemer - Sep 09th, 2021

    'Memories of Atrocities to Come:' Written at night, edited at daytime - published in remembrance of 9/11 - atrocities of WWII - and of today....

  • Boston Lyric Opera's

    Cavalleria Rusticana Opens Season October 1

    By: BLO - Sep 08th, 2021

    Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) opens its new season October 1 with the company’s first production of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” composer Pietro Mascagni’s one-act verismo tale of love, betrayal and death in a small Sicilian village. 

  • Works & Process at the Guggenheim

    Fall Performing Arts Series

    By: Guggenheim - Sep 08th, 2021

    Works & Process will resume its signature behind the scenes Artist-driven programs, uniquely blending performance highlights with insightful artists discussions all prior to premiere.

  • Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories

    At the MFA

    By: MFA - Sep 08th, 2021

    Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories showcases 50 remarkable works created by women and men, known individuals and those yet to be identified, urban and rural makers, and members of the Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian and LGBTQIA+ communities.

  • MFA Offers Free Admission October 9

    Honors Indigenous Peoples' Day

    By: MFA - Sep 07th, 2021

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is offering free general admission on Saturday, October 9 in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, inviting visitors to recognize and honor the heritage of all Indigenous peoples and the histories of their nations and communities.

  • The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons

    A World Premiere Production by FAU's Theatre Lab

    By: Aaron Krause - Sep 06th, 2021

    The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons is a new play by Rachel Teagle receiving its world premiere production at Florida Atlantic University's Theatre Lab. The professional company's production runs through Sept. 19. Jess the Mastodon seeks to find her place in a world in which she seems out of place. A Mastodon is a large, extinct elephant-like mammal.

  • Galatea by David Templeton

    At Spreckels Theatre Company

    By: Victor Cordell - Sep 06th, 2021

    Robot, replicant, android, or body snatcher – one of science-fiction’s leading obsessions has long been the fear of alien or man-made “beings” replacing humans.  In playwright David Templeton’s “Galatea,” the near future envisions an outer-space centered universe populated by organics, like you (I think) and me, as well as synthetics, the latter being created by the former to appear and behave exactly like humans.

  • Pennie Brantley The Presence of the Past

    At Real Eyes Gallery

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 05th, 2021

    For the realist painter, Pennie Brantley, every picture tells a story. Encountering the work in her current exhibition, The Presence of the Past, there is a lot more to the notion that what you see is what you get.

  • Angela's Ashes: The Musical

    An Irish Repertory Theatre Streaming Production

    By: Aaron Krause - Sep 02nd, 2021

    Angela's Ashes: The Musical is a new musical adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Frank McCourt memoir. The award-winning, Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theatre will stream the show from Sept. 9 through Sept. 22. The online production follows an in-person, critically-acclaimed run in Ireland in 2017.

  • The Suburbs

    Thrown Stone Theatre in Ridgefield i

    By: Karen Isaacs - Sep 02nd, 2021

    After a two block walk, the audience arrives at the lawn of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum for The Caterers by Tony Menses. At least you can understand why a museum dedicated to recent art was chosen, since the play takes place sometime after 2030.

  • The New Agit Prop

    American Repertory Theatre

    By: A.R.T - Sep 01st, 2021

    The press release for fall programing at American Repertory Theatre contained a signifying statement.

  • Mothers of the Bride by Meghan Maugeri

    Produced by Pear Theatre

    By: Victor Cordell - Aug 31st, 2021

    Starting with the latter 20th century, divorce, remarriage, and nonmarriage have become so prominent that the would-be-bride may have several significant women to share these charged moments with.  Or maybe none.  Yet those same consternations go on, right down to the decision whether to go through with the wedding. Playwright Meghan Maugeri has plumbed this territory with a well-written play. 

  • Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories

    MFA To Display Two Extant Quilts of Harriet Powers

    By: MFA - Aug 31st, 2021

    This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will bring together the only two extant quilts made by Harriet Powers (1837–1910), displaying the iconic works together for the very first time since they were made by the artist in the 19th century. The famous Pictorial quilt (1895–98) from the MFA’s collection and the Bible quilt (1885–86), on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, will be featured in Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, opening October 10.

  • Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography Since 1970

    Harvard Art Museums

    By: Harvard - Aug 30th, 2021

    Tracing the impacts of militarism on the American landscape, through the lens of art, environmental studies, and politics.

  • Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts

    Off the Rails

    By: SVA - Aug 29th, 2021

    The program has had a good long run of 16 years. It was a writing program for people who wanted to write about art, with an emphasis on literature, philosophy, the relation between aesthetics and politics, and the history and future of the image.

  • North Adams Artist Peggy Schiffer

    On Tap for Blue Heron Virtual Exhibition

    By: Blue Heron - Aug 29th, 2021

    SchifferNolandStudio will be the featured artist for the September/October show with Blue Heron Gallery Online. The show will run from September 13 until October 14. Peggy Schiffer and Sam Noland are the two-person collaborative known as SchifferNolandStudio, and their creative practice includes photography, digital media, painting, and other elements

  • Giacomo Puccini's Tosca

    Produced by San Francisco Opera

    By: Victor Cordell - Aug 29th, 2021

    What is it about “Tosca” that endows it with near universal appeal?  There have been naysayers who find the action and music of verismo to be too violent and vulgar, but they are now few.  To begin with, this is a mature and confident Puccini in the follow up to his equally renowned “La Boheme.”  The opera’s dissonant, ominous opening salvo of the Scarpia theme announces the tragedy to come, while the ensuing score resounds with rich melody, haunting leitmotifs, and several memorable “greatest hits” arias.

  • Sweet Land, Opera of the Year

    The Industry Produces Grand Opera

    By: Susan Hall - Aug 29th, 2021

    Sweet Land by a consortium of artists formed by the adventuresome Los Angeles company The Industry has won the award for best new opera in 2020 from the Music Critics Association of North America.  Music by Du Yun and Raven Chacon. Libretto by Douglas Kearney and Aja Couchois Duncan . Directed by Cannupa Hanska Luger and Yuval Sharon.

  • Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway

    At the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute through Sept. 19

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 28th, 2021

    The Clark took a chance in featuring an unknown artist as its major summer exhibition. By word of mouth momentum has built for "Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway." The work of the artist was as narrow and deep as the fjords of his native Norway. While beloved in his native land he is unknown to all but a few art historians and specialists of 20th century Scandinavian art.

  • Having Our Say- the Delaney Sisters First 100 Years

    At Ivoryton Playhouse

    By: Karen Isaacs - Aug 28th, 2021

    These two sisters, 103 and 101 at the time of the play, regale us with incidents and observations on their lives and opinions. And what experiences they are. They talk about their family’s history (and photos are projected) of slavery and freedom.

  • Sandra Oh is The Chair on Netflix

    Cancel Culture on Campus

    By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 27th, 2021

    Sandra Oh stars as The Chair in a six episode comedy on Netflix. Set on small college Pembroke it is a broad and hilarious satire of cancel culture on campus. While played for laughs the hit comedy has evoked a dialogue about its uncanny, over the top, accuracy. It's the truth that makes this hilarious series sad and all too compelling.

  • Faust by Berlioz in Salzburg

    A Masterpiece Revealed

    By: Susan Hall - Aug 27th, 2021

    La Damnation of Faust is a glorious dramatic legend.  It bombed in Paris, much to composer Hector Berlioz’ dismay and confusion. Yet even members of the orchestra he conducted at the premiere asked the composer about notes he wrote.  “That note does not exist,” complained a horn player. “It sounds like a sneeze.”  “That’s just what I wanted,” replied Berlioz. No one contests the musicality of the "Romane" aria, "D'amour l'ardente flame," so beautiful that it was selected to conclude the memorial service for Maria Callas.

  • Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle

    At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

    By: Guggenheim - Aug 26th, 2021

    Drawing from the Guggenheim’s exceptional collection of works by Kandinsky, the exhibition features approximately eighty paintings, watercolors, and woodcuts, as well as a selection of his illustrated books, spanning the artist’s earlier years in Russia and Germany and through his exile in France at the end of his life.

  • 2021 Challenging for Vineyards

    Les Alexandrins, Rhone Valley

    By: Alexandre Caso & Nicolas Jaboulet - Aug 25th, 2021

    After a mild winter, a dry mid-spring and a July that seemed more like a November, our wine-growers have really been through the mill.

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