Two important Public Art events are happening THIS WEEK featuring LOCAL ARTISTS. We reach out to all our Boston neighborhoods to come take part and interact with their local artists - THIS IS FOR OUR NEIGHBORS!
Local artists Darrell Ann Gane-McCalla, Shea Justice, and Jason Pramas have some problems with the "Boston Strong" slogan.
An American playwright and MLK scholar Dr. Clay Carson takes a choir of seven African American gospel singers to Palestine. There his play Passages of Martin Luther King has been adapted as Al Helm (the dream) by director Kamel El Basha for the Palestinian National Theatre Company.
The Boston Palestine Film Festival, co-presented with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, returns for its seventh year this fall. The festival runs from October 18-27, 2013. Apart from showcasing a diverse selection of 30 international films from Palestine and films relating to Palestine, the festival also features conversations with guest directors and others.
The full program is available at www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org.
The exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, should disabuse anyone who clings to the notion that art in museums is removed from the real world. “This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics of the 1980s” is a visual history of the decade roughly sandwiched between the election of Ronald Reagan and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Is beauty enough?
Apparently, Josiah McElheny doesn’t think so.
The conceptual artist’s reflective, silver glass objects are beautiful to behold at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, where they are on view through October 14. The mid-career survey of his work, titled “Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of the Infinite,” includes 21 works, films and photographs as well as a gallery installation of his spectacular glass sculptures “Island Universe.”
On one of these dog days of summer, treat yourself with a refreshing visit to the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, for a dip into the featured exhibition: Ansel Adams: At The Water’s Edge.
To paraphrase a popular commercial for Chevrolet cars: The new Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum isn’t your father’s museum. With the recently opened Renzo Piano wing, the Gardner is a new Boston destination.
Welcome to the glamorous world of the New York art scene. What, you don't have famous artist friends to meet in New York? Not to worry. You're invited to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where "Alex Katz Prints," the featured summer exhibition, will introduce you to the artist's sophisticated circle of family and friends.
Born in Panama City, Antonieta Gimeno is a Dorchester-based community organizer, theater activist, and solidarity worker. Gimeno has joined the Peña Rebelde team for Woman’s History Month to celebrate La Mujer Afro-Latina, the Latina woman of African descent.
The peña takes place this Saturday, March 31, at Encuentro 5 in Boston. RSVP on Facebook here:http://on.fb.me/GSH13j
The following is an interview with Antonieta Gimeno in anticipation of the peña.
