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. Whiteread, the first woman to win the Turner Prize, is exhibiting Place (Village) at the Museum of Fine Arts. It is a collection of over 200 dollhouses that she has purchased over the years on eBay and secondhand shops.......

Popsicle Names We're shocked that Swedish singer Lykke Li (pronounced "licky lee" or "looky lee," depending on who you ask) doesn't yet have her own popsicle brand. You know, because her voice is so sweet. Paradise, 967 Comm Ave, 9 pm. $15. Garbage Pail Kids Yeah, Art Spiegelman did some other stuff, but we most fondly remember these kitchy trading cards with exploding baby heads. Spiegelman reads from his latest collection, Breakdowns, at the Brattle.......

The Museum of Fine Arts and the SMFA are currently showing exhibits of two technically gifted photographers: the young South American artist Esteban Pastorino Diaz and legendary portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh. Taking only a cursory look over "Shifting Perspectives," an exhibit of Argentinian photographer Esteban Pastorino Diaz's work, one might walk away thinking he shot a number of intricate model villages and dioramas. But the kite aerial photographer actually flew his camera 400 feet......

Local, Sustainable, Delicious: A Seasonal Celebration Featuring Boston's Best Chefs Persephone (283 Summer St.) September 28, 6pm Tickets With school in session and social calendars already filling up through the end of fall, it's getting harder for many of us to check off all the foodie to-do items on our lists, like: 1) Stock up on late-summer and early-fall local vegetables while the gettin's good. 2) Try some of Will Gilson's herb-saturated menu items before......

"I know people from Vermont are here," Nico Muhly declared. "I can just smell it." In fact, the performers' families had come down from the 802 area code to watch Sam Amidon, Thomas "Doveman" Bartlett, and Muhly play together on Sunday evening. The three of them did not perform three distinct sets, instead performing their own songs and their collaborations in overlapping clusters, working out the set list as they went along, casually swapping......

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). Antonio López García, the Spanish artist who made......

--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] --Local restaurants are going to stop selling bottled water and get people who want water to drink tap. This news leads to the following question--how do you feel about the local tap water? [WCVB] --The Boston City Council wants to move voting day to Saturday. Voter turnout is so......

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939 Torf Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts January 30—June 1, 2008 In the collection of prints going on display tomorrow at the Museum of Fine Arts, humans are chiefly represented in clumps: anonymous crowds, armies, bocce players, orchestras, audiences, stick-figure Ballets Russes, eight men with oars forming a human motor, blurred passengers whirling around an ominous proto-Seussian merry-go-round—Oh, the places you (plural) will go. The exhibit highlights artists......

Art Although the weather is bone-chilling, the MFA wants to lure you out of the house with free admission until 4:45 this afternoon. Kendrick Oliver and the New Life Jazz Orchestra will also perform in Remis Auditorium between 11:00 am and 3:30 pm. More info from the MFA. Movies One of Woody Allen's best will screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre as part of the "Science on Screen" series. In Sleeper, Woody Allen is transported......