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The Cape Wind project takes another step forward after signing a deal with National Grid. [Cape Cod Times]
Boston stoners may be too high to remember their marijuana tickets. About 80% of the citations have not been paid. [Boston Herald]
The New Kids on the Block apparently don't know what year it is, because they performed at the American Music Awards last night. [CBS News]
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If you buy Patriots tickets (or any tickets) on Craigslist, they might be fake. On the other hand, CL experiences could definitely be worse. [Attleboro Sun Chronicle]
A Pace University student from Easton was killed by police in NY after driving away from a bar fight. [Boston Channel]
Signs are positive for finding a new developer to actually build something at the old Filene's location. [Boston Globe]
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Boston will consider eliminating the sales of high-calorie drinks at city-owned properties. [Boston Globe]
Four Bay State banks still owe TARP money. [Boston Herald]
Believe it or not, schools in Boston (and Springfield) are rather segregated. [Boston Globe]
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Three of four men have survived a boat crash near the Merrimack River, and the causes are under investigation. [Boston Channel]
As expected, the next overpriced Fenway concert will be Paul McCartney in August. [Boston Music Spotlight]
Construction workers at the MFA find an letter from construction worker that was written in 1926. [Boston Globe]
When treasurer and legislature don't communicate, it can be a $25 million budget gaffe. [Boston Herald]
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They can't defend their championship, but the Celtics have been named "Professional Sports Team of the Year." [WEEI]
After 3 years, the Arlington T station renovation is complete with an elevator and public restroom. [Boston Metro]
Mayor Mumbles is trying a new tack to randomly drug test firefighters. [Boston Herald]
Tom Brady and some his Best Buddies ride bikes on the Cape and raise $3.6 million for charity. [Cape Cod Times]
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Senate minority leader Bruce E. Tarr wants to block state agencies from using confidentiality agreements as part of severance agreements. The Museum of Fine Arts will spend $13 million to renovate the Edward Linde contemporary art wing. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
On the final night of the MFA's annual "Art in Bloom", the doors will be open to all cheapskates to view about 70 floral arrangements placed next to artwork throughout the museum -- almost half of the arrangements will be in the Art of the Americas Wing.
Just because it's green doesn't mean it's connected to St. Patrick’s Day. Just ask the Museum of Fine Arts and Dale Chihuly. The MFA is preparing for an exhibit in April the features Chihuly's large, green, glass sculpture. The Lime Green Icicle Tower includes 2,400 individual pieces of glass, is 42-feet tall and weighs 10,000 pounds. Before it is finished, over 100 people and six large trucks will be involved in assembling the structure's many pieces.
The Museum of Fine Arts is honoring Latin American culture for the month of March through MFA Fiesta! The MFA's Art of the Americas Wing will feature Latin-inspired music, film, and food. Information about MFA Fiesta! is available at www.mfa.org/programs/series/mfa-fiesta.
If the snow ever stops falling long enough to allow for schools to have vacations in February, the Museum of Fine Arts has a week of child-focused activities from February 21-25. The Cogan Family Foundation Vacation Week Adventures is scheduled for that week in the Art of the Americas Wing that opened in November. The fun begins on President’s day as kids search the new wing for all of the President’s residing there. The main activity lets children make their own masterpieces and their own museum to hang their works in. The activities are free and run daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit www.mfa.org for more information.
Events are planned throughout Boston to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. today.
The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) annual Fall Open House takes place on Monday, October 11, from 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The 2010 theme is "Art and Design: An Exploration of Fantasy, Reality and Style." Exhibits include an original performance fom the ANIKAI Dance Company, a series of short films from the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Film Program, art-making activities for kids in the Koch Gallery, an experience with movement and shapes in art at the Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000 exhibition, and a workshop for kids on wearable art. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 617-267-9300. More information.
The sixth annual Museum of Fine Arts College Night is set for Thursday, September 23, from 7-11 p.m. This free event invites college students into the Museum to introduce them to MFA exhibits and programs. In 2009, 5,000 students attended College Night. MFA University Members from the 44 MFA member colleges receive free admission every day. Berklee alum Liz Longley performs again, and DJ Taylor Walker makes an appearance. There's also a surprise performance in the Calderwood Courtyard.
We already talked about Dr. Lakra at the ICA, a new tattoo-focused exhibit where demons mix with donkeys in a clash of culture with culture and ink with skin—and other materials. But we hadn't mentioned Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints, which opened in April at the MFA. Where Dr. Lakra represents a fundamentally countercultural take on tattooing, the MFA exhibit takes a historical tack, showing the development of Japanese tattooing from 19th century woodblock prints of tattooed martial artists (from China, no less). Utagawa Kuniyoshi's work plays a significant part in the exhibit, depicting the organic relationships between skin and surroundings in flower and wave-themed tattoos..
If you've been to the MFA recently and wondered if John Singer Sargent's masterpiece The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit had been lifted in some Gardner-esque heist or fallen victim to the molestations of an out-of-control art lover, rest assured. The painting is still in good shape and in better company. It's on loan to the Prado in Madrid, where, for the first time, it will be exhibited in the same room as Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas, Sargent's direct inspiration.
Those who can't get enough of Egypt, Egypt should make their way to the MFA tomorrow afternoon where two Belgian Egyptologists (is there really any other kind?) will present free lectures on their recent discoveries.
This strangely captivating shot by rezsox is a fine example of how contrasting tones and bizarre subject matter can make a photo. We like how the white snow plays off the dark, textured stone. The photographer could have worked with many different angles, but the straight ahead perspective immediately focuses and holds our attention.
There's a self-portrait of American artist Willie Cole called Silex Male: Ritual that shows his semi-naked body covered with a bizarre series of markings that, upon closer inspection, turn out to be the imprints of clothing irons. The work shows Cole from the front and the back, and the images are slyly labeled "fig. 1" and "fig. 2," as if they came straight from an anthropology textbook. While it is by no means the most representative work in the show, Silex Male: Ritual might be the most thematically appropriate addition to the MFA's new exhibition Object, Image, Collector: African and Oceanic Art in Focus.
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