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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.

   

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.

   

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice

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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).

FNX has been on a roll lately, hosting two of the biggest indie bands on the scene right now, Band of Horses and Vampire Weekend. Both bands have a reputation for appealing to a hipster crowd, and while tight jeans, ironic T-shirts, and beards (oh-so many beards) were indeed prevalent at both shows, the main focus has been on the unique sound of both acts.

Thanks to the Museum of Fine Arts’s ongoing exhibit Walk This Way, shoe-loving Bostonians have found a new excuse for their obsession: They’re not just conspicuous consumers, they’re art collectors.

The cold weather is no excuse for you not to get out!

The exhibit Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939 shows the sharp, mechanical-feeling prints that set the artistic tone for the future. Museum of Fine Arts. Read Bostonist's preview of the show. Runs through June 1.

January 30—June 1, 2008

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Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Peabody Essex Museum

The rule is unspoken, but obvious. No T-shirts or sweats when you watch Lagerfeld Confidential, a documentary on the life of the legendary glamourpuss. Museum of Fine Arts, from today until January 17, $9. All showtimes from the MFA.

School of the Museum of Fine Arts Sale Through Sunday, December 9 12:00 pm-6:00 pm 230 The Fenway, Boston (T: Museum of Fine Arts or Ruggles) Surprise your friends and family with original art instead of the standard old holiday presents like gadgets, bath soap, and socks. Five thousand pieces of art will be on sale at the School of Museum of Fine Arts this weekend, including original art by Ellsworth Kelly, which you...

A Conversation with Michael Haneke Friday, October 19, 7:30pm, Harvard Film Archive Michael Haneke: A Cinema of Provocation Ongoing, Harvard Film Archive and Museum of Fine Arts Austrian director Michael Haneke, best known for his spare and chilling 2001 adaptation of The Piano Teacher, will discuss his thirty year career in television and the movies tomorrow at Harvard Film Archive. The talk will be followed by a screening of Haneke's latest: his shot-by-shot U.S. remake...

Mighty Mighty Bosstones December 26-30, 7:30 Middle East Details on tickets in post Bosstones MySpace site Common November 10 UMass-Boston, Clark Athletic Center FREE Yo La Tengo November 15, 9:30 pm Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium, $25 Better hope you have some money in your wallet because there's some huge acts that are on their way. First off, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are reuniting at the Middle East for a "Hometown Throwdown." Tickets go...

Chris Marstall, the founder of Tourfilter, decided he wasn't satisfied with helping people track their favorite bands. He realized something was missing when it came to local movie schedules. As Boston movie connoisseurs are aware, Greater Boston is always on top of the film scene. The Brattle Theatre, Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Harvard Film Archive, and the Museum of Fine Arts could keep you in a theatre seat every single night with current arthouse hits,...

Celebrate the origins of the Native American genocide by going to see some European art! Bostonist couldn't miss that irony. But the truth is, if you've got this rainy Columbus Day off anyway, you could do worse than to check out the Fenway Cultural District's "Opening Our Doors." All the museums in the area are free today, from the MFA to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. (The reaction of one Bostonian: "The Gardner's free?! That...

College Night at the MFA Thursday, September 27 7:00 pm to midnight with … Thurston Moore Remis Auditorium 8:30 pm We know that the Museum of Fine Arts is loaded. But what's even better is that they share the wealth. This Thursday, the museum is letting all college students in for free for College Night, which drew 3,200 students last year. That same night, the museum will open the new exhibit Walk This Way, which...

Harvard's not the only rich institution in town - or at least they have some competition. The Museum of Fine Arts received a gift of $10 million bucks from the State Street Corp. In return, the MFA will rename the Fenway entrance the "State Street Fenway Entrance" and open it after leaving it closed for 20 years. That's an appropriate gesture, but we thought that the MFA would blow it all with a spending spree...

Last week the Boston Globe reported that a discovery had been made at the MFA. They had a Vincent van Gogh painting in their possession that they never knew about. Unfortunately it wasn't just sitting around in the basement or tucked in a closet it was literally buried underneath another painting in the museum. According to the report: " Now a conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts has discovered the lost painting, but museum...

I'm Through With White Girls opens the Roxbury Film Festival and will be at the Museum of Fine Arts' Remis Auditorium at 7:30 pm on Thursday, August 2. The Roxbury Film Festival is running from Wednesday, August 1, to Sunday, August 5, at various venues around town. Check the Roxbury Film Festival's website for a schedule and details. The ninth-annual Roxbury Film Festival starts off with the provocatively titled comedy I'm Through With White Girls....