Two-Lane Blacktop is one of the best underground movies you've probably never seen. Even though the 1971 movie about drag racers looks like a star vehicle for "Sweet Baby James" Taylor, the images and general restless atmosphere make it seem more like Godard than anything else. Throw in a performance by another one of Hollywoods unsung heroes, Warren Oates, and a haunting final scene, and you have a classic. Showtimes from the Brattle Theatre.
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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...
Spring training is just getting underway, but something will happen Saturday for the first time since the Red Sox clinched their first World Series win in 86 years. Saturday night the stars will be in alignment. Or, rather, the Sun, Earth, and the Moon will be in alignment for a total lunar eclipse – which only happens during a full moon.
After headbutting its way through the World Cup on Sunday, France seems to be in the spotlight this summer, especially here in Boston. The Museum of Fine Arts is hosting their new Americans in Paris 1860-1900 exhibit, which features painting by James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, and Mary Cassatt. It seems that American painters all flocked to Paris to attend art school, gain a reputation, and eat lots of crepes during this forty year span. They also happened to produce some great art, which will be on display through September 24th; the most well-known pieces in this exhibit are two portraits of ladies with extremely different styles: Sargent’s portrait of Madame X and Whistler’s portrait of his mother.
The Museum of Fine Arts dug its shovels into the Fenway today, marking the groundbreaking of its $500 million expansion project, which is scheduled to be completed by 2010. The MFA has been working toward this new wing since 2001 and has already raised $316 million of the half billion dollar price tag, the largest fundraising campaign in the city's cultural history. Designed by the British firm Foster and Partners of London, the addition to the museum will be over two and a half football fields' worth of art space. The wing will feature a new place for the Art of the Americas, some renovations to the Art of Europe galleries, a new auditorium, and more space to hold workshops, new exhibits, and the like. The Shapiro family donated $15 million, hence the "Shapiro Family Courtyard," which will convert the existing garden courtyard area into a year-round space with a glass ceiling.
When Bostonist went through grade school Ben Franklin was the gold standard of inventor/kite-flyer, revolutionary, patriot, journalist, abolitionist and all-around model American. Born on Milk Street here in Boston in 1706, affection for Franklin and the many accomplishments in his life have long been used as a teaching tool for the Bay State chillins. Major news media is reporting today that Star Wars may usurp Franklin’s position. “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination'' which will open tomorrow at the Museum of Science has been touted not only as a Star Wars fan’s wet dream but also a teaching tool about modern science. The $5 million exhibit displays parts of sets and costumes used in the six movies, the original trilogy and the more recent prequel trilogy. In the hands-on fashion that the Museum of Science uses in may of their exhibits people can build their own simple ‘Maglev’ trains which use magnetic propulsion while looking at some of the wicked cool space ships and hovercraft used in the Star Wars series.
For those who are looking to still contribute to the Hurricane Katrina fund, you can raise a glass Monday night and all the proceeds go to those victims of the natural disaster. The Museum of the American Cocktail, which calls New Orleans home, is having a nationwide fundraiser tomorrow night from 5-7p.m. The “Save New Orleans Cocktail Hour” has participating bars and restaurants across the country serving up New Orleans’ styled libations at $10 a pop. All the receipts from these cocktails will be submitted to a special tax-deductible relief fund for those residents that apply for the aid.
The thrill of the heist or the prestige of the art, what is it that inspires art theives? The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is looking to get back thirteen works of art stolen from them fifteen years ago this week. The Museum has had one anonymous tip that promised to help them secure the art for $2.6 million ten years ago, but the tip line has been silent ever since. Not a robbery in the style that pilfered Edvard Munch’s "The Scream" last year where two gunmen grabbed works off the wall and just ran out the front door. It wasn’t the adventurous Thomas Crown style slick moves in a movie style heist. The heist was more of a mix of the two. Two men dressed as Boston’s finest walked into the museum and left with 13 works of art, including a two Rembrandt pieces, in what is still one of the largest art robberies in history. Valued at $300 million, Bostonist wants to know how they expect to get the paintings back for a measly $5 million. The Gardner Museum must not be too confident in the masterworks black market value. Well, at least this April Bostonist can go see the movie.
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