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TechnologyMusic/ArtSeeing Songs - Technology - iPods, MP3 players, social networking sites, cell phones - has put music/musicians everywhere. The Museum of Fine Arts has gathered together works of art inspired by music. The collection features anything from paintings to videos and their connection is music. MFA, Free with General Admission. 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

   

The night air was muggy last Wednesday in the Museum of Fine Arts's Calderwood Courtyard, but, as Grupo Fantasma was quick to remind the crowd, it was nothing like a Texas heat. The funky Latin big band from Austin, accustomed to greater temperature extremes, barely broke a sweat. That much can't be said for the crowd, many of whom seemed determined to reinvent salsa dancing from the ground up.

Nobody likes sand in the pants, but sometimes it is a side effect of beach trips. You can keep your pants on today while checking out impressive sand sculptures at the New England Sand Sculpting Festival. If today being the last day of the festival (winners were announced last night, so you'll see the best of the best) isn't enough motivation to get you to Revere, check this cool video from last year. 10am to 6pm, Revere Beach, free.

   

In the age of DIY, Etsy, and green architecture, the British-born Arts and Crafts movement should enjoy a new renown. The movement emphasized hand craftsmanship and "honest materials," especially local materials, and disdained the mechanized products of the Industrial Revolution as dehumanizing. The movement made inviting living spaces, plain but comfortable furniture, and espoused a Romantic balance between the manmade and the natural. In the early years of the 20th century, Charles and Henry Greene developed a uniquely American derivation of the style.

King Sunny Adé is the kind of man that you want to shower with wads of cash. Last night, in the Calderwood Courtyard of the Museum of Fine Arts, the crowd did just that.

               

Yesterday, the Museum of Fine Arts hosted a karaoke party on its doorstep. It was a collective karaoke that saw Bostonians from every corner of the city singing hits from the 80s (and one Beyoncé track) in an uncertain chorus of badly harmonized voices. The event commemorated the Boston debut of Queen (A Portrait of Madonna), Candice Breitz's video that presents footage of 30 people simultaneously singing "Vogue" a cappella.

and fight even though dead men don't get laid." And then our young hero loses his grip on the mortal coil because he didn't heed the advice of his older lover, and the pair never get it on again.

   

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice

What do you get when you combine Jesus, Nazis and Bakelite? A forged Vermeer painting.

Daniel Burman's Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio) is a steadily somber film punctuated by moments of extreme joy and visual expressionism. Largely a domestic story, the movie follows Leonardo (Oscar Martinez), a successful playwright, as he navigates the breakdown of his personal life. His is the subtle breakdown of children moving away and ebbed romance rather than the sudden, dramatic breakdown of marriage, and, as such, it requires a different sort of language than the high theatricality of a Revolutionary Road. There's the need for a tenderness and emotional restraint, and Burman treats his characters with detached love even as he moves them into surreal places.

 

Tara Donovan and Rachel Whiteread are among the world's finest sculptors. It is uplifting to note that these two women (working in a traditionally male-dominated field) both have solo shows in Boston's world class museums.

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"I know people from Vermont are here," Nico Muhly declared. "I can just smell it."

Currently, two monolithic baby heads flank the Huntington Avenue entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts like a pair of cherubs. Do they herald a coming baby oligarchy? Or spring? In fact, neither. The cherubs bring news of two Spanish painting exhibitions: "Antonio López García" (April 11 - July 27) and "El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III" (April 20 - July 27).

--Bechtel, Parsons & Brinckerhoff still keeps this city on a tight leash. They received $5.3 million after the Big Dig was supposedly finished. [Boston Herald]

January 30—June 1, 2008

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