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A man died and another was seriously injured when their speedboat capsized in Boston Harbor and broke up on Saturday. Michael Spirito was pronounced dead at the scene. In a second incident, another man is missing after falling overboard in Marshfield harbor on Saturday night. The Coast Guard and Marshfield emergency workers are looking for the boater. The driver was charged with operating under the influence. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Americans everywhere are honoring servicemen and women on Memorial Day, including President Obama. The Navy will name a second aircraft carrier after President John F. Kennedy. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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.
The free community day at the Museum of Fine Arts Art of the Americas Wing opening continues into the night with a series of family events such as a scavenger hunt and watercolor painting going until 8 p.m. A series of concert performances begins at 6 p.m. Featured performances include 19-year-old cello virtuoso Anthony Rymer, pianist Zenan Yu, and the Hawthorne String Quartet. The free events showcase the spectacular nature of the expanded MFA.
From September 25 until June 19, 2011, the Museum of Fine Arts will present Scaasi: American Couturier, an exhibit dedicated to legendary fashion designer Arnold Scaasi. Scaasi dressed actresses like Diahann Carroll and Elizabeth Taylor, and First Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy and Hillary Clinton in an elegant style.
Urban AdvenTours offers two exciting Boston-based bike tours. One drives through the heart of Red Sox Nation and ends at Fenway Park. The Bikes @ Night Tour winds around Boston's waterfront, and includes Black Falcon Pier and the Institute of Contemporary Art. Both begin at 6 p.m. Tours depart daily from the shop at 103 Atlantic Ave. $35 charge includes helmet, bike, water and guide. All ages. 617-670-0637.
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The Harvard Film Archive continues to present the films of director Nicholas Ray until August 9. Saturday offers The Lusty Men (1952) and The Flying Leathernecks (1951) as a double feature. Ray humanized his characters through film, whether they were WWII era Marine (leathernecks) fighter pilots or marginalized rodeo cowboys. Each one day only. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m., 9:15 p.m., $7, $9, $12. HFA encourages use of public transportation.
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.
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
"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 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.
