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Ambassador to the Arts
It is a great honor to be asked to serve as this year’s Ambassador for the Arts for Boston. Even now in my eighth year at Boston Lyric Opera, I continue to be astonished by the depth and diversity of the performing arts here. Vital dance, music, theater, visual arts, and opera are tucked into every corner: Boston is truly one of the great cultural cities. An ambassador represents his or her home, promotes its great assets, and helps others discover them. You’ve received this incredible annual resource; use it to explore new things all year long. See a new opera. Explore a new theater company. Attend a concert by an artist you don’t know. Slip into a gallery featuring a rising young painter. Boston Lyric Opera celebrates its 40th season this year. And despite our four decades, in this city’s long history of great art we’re one of the youngsters. There are so many groups to whom we turn for inspiration, and we hope to inspire those newer than us. The Guide for the Arts can inspire experienced patrons like you, as well as eager new arts supporters. In that spirit I encourage you to use it regularly and pass it along to others. Fondly, Esther Nelson Stanford Calderwood General & Artistic Director
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Publisher’s Note
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American Repertory Theater
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Boston Ballet
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Boston Lyric Opera
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Boston Philharmonic
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
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Handel & Hayden Society
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Harvard Art Museums
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Huntington Theatre
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Institute of Contemporary Art
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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Museum of Fine Arts
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New Repertory Theatre
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Peabody Essex Museum
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American Repertory Theater
American Repertory Theater. THE A.R.T. AT Harvard University Photo: Infinite Boston is a leading force in the American theater, producing groundbreaking work in Cambridge and beyond. The A.R.T. was founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein, who served as Artistic Director until 2002, when he was succeeded by Robert Woodruff. Diane Paulus began her tenure as Artistic Director in 2008. Under her leadership, the A.R.T. seeks to expand the boundaries of theater by programming events that immerse audiences in transformative theatrical experiences.
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JANUARY 17 – FEBRUARY 7, 2016 NICE FISH Conceived, Written, and Adapted by MARK RYLANCE & LOUIS JENKINS Directed by CLAIRE VAN KAMPEN Featuring MARK RYLANCE ON A LAKE in frozen Minnesota, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It’s the end of the fishing season, and two men are out on the ice one last time, angling for answers to life’s larger questions. A play woven together from the acclaimed prose poems of Louis Jenkins, Nice Fish reflects nature with a wry surreality. As Jenkins writes, they Mark Rylance. “are after Photo: Martin Godwin/Guardian something big, something down there that is pure need, something that, had it the wherewithal, would swallow them whole.” FEBRUARY 14 – MARCH 6, 2016 1984 By GEORGE ORWELL Adapted by ROBERT ICKE & DUNCAN MACMILLAN APRIL, 1984. COMRADE 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in a radical, award-winning adaptation exploring surveillance, identity, and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.
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MAY 6 – 29, 2016 ROSSEVELVIS Created by THE TEAM Directed by RACHEL CHAVKIN ON A HALLUCINATORY road trip from the Badlands to Graceland, the spirits of Elvis Presley and Theodore Roosevelt battle over the soul of the painfully shy meat processing plant worker, Ann, and over what kind of man or woman Ann should become. Set against the boundless blue skies of the Great Plains and endless American highway, RoosevElvis is a new work about gender, appetite, and the multitudes we contain. MAY 7 – 29, 2016 IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD Written and Performed by EVE ENSLER Directed by DIANE PAULUS IN THIS WORLD-PREMIERE adaptation of her critically acclaimed 2013 memoir, Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues, Emotional Creature, The Good Body, O.P.C.) celebrates the strength and joy that connect a single body to the planet. As an activist and artist, Ensler has spent her career speaking about the female body. While working in the Congo, where war continues to inflict devastating violence on women, she was diagnosed with stage III/IV uterine cancer. This diagnosis erased the boundaries between Ensler’s work and her own body. In this Eve Ensler. Photo: Brigitte Lacomb raw, humorous, and bold
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performance, Ensler charts the connections between the personal and the public, inviting and challenging all of us to come back into our bodies, and thus the world. EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT THE DONKEY SHOW TONY AWARD-WINNER Diane Paulus’s celebrated smash hit The Donkey Show, brings you the ultimate disco experience – a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever! TICKETS & CONTACT Loeb Drama Center 64 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02138 OBERON 2 Arrow Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 547-8300 (Box Office) (617) 495-2668 (Administrative Offices) www.americanrepertorytheater.org
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and White. BOSTON BALLET, FOUNDED Photo: Gene Schiavone in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Today, Boston Ballet is one of the major ballet companies in North America and among the top companies in the world. Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen was selected to lead Boston Ballet in September 2001. Under his exceptional artistic direction, Boston Ballet maintains an internationally acclaimed repertoire of classical, neo-classical and contemporary works, ranging from fulllength story ballets to masterworks by George Balanchine, to new works and world premieres by some of today’s finest contemporary choreographers.
FEBRUARY 25 – MARCH 6, 2016 ONEGIN THIS TRAGIC TALE of unrequited love is based on Alexander Pushkin’s celebrated verse-novel. Legendary choreographer John Cranko brings the masterpiece of Russian literature to life with brilliant dancing, lavish sets and costumes, and the incomparable music of Tchaikovsky.
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MARCH 17 – 26, 2016 KALEIDOSCOPE A COLORFUL FUSION of works by 20th century masters, Kaleidoscope presents a stunningly visual juxtaposition of four distinct pieces. The program features George Balanchine’s ingenious Kammermusik No. 2, the energetically liberating and technically demanding choreography of William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of ExJohn Lam and Misa Kuranaga in Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude. actitude, the poetic Photo: Dina Rudick/Boston Globe movement of Leonid Yakobson’s dreamlike Pas de Quatre, and the comic exuberance of Léonide Massine’s Gaîté Parisienne. APRIL 29 – MAY 26, 2016 SWAN LAKE WHEN MIKKO NISSINEN’S fresh take on this quintessential ballet debuted in 2014 it was hailed as “luminous” by The Wall Street Journal. See it again or for the first time – but do not miss this limited engagement, as Swan Lake won’t return to the stage for several years. One of the most beloved and quintessential classical ballets, Swan Lake premiered in 1877 and like many of the best stories, it has been retold over the years. Russian choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov collaborated with Tchaikovsky to create the cherished version that served as Nissinen’s inspiration. While remaining true to their intent, he added choreography and reunited with award-winning designer Robert Perdziola (The Nutcracker) to create the spectacular sets and costumes. 24
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MAY 6 – 28, 2016 MIRRORS IN A PROGRAM that reflects the many facets of contemporary dance, Mirrors features two eagerly anticipated world premieres, alongside the Company premiere of Belong and the return of Resonance. The four pieces highlight the depth and scope of contemporary dance vocabulary. With works that range from the lyrically romantic to the unique creations of an award-winning “punk ballerina,” each piece in this program builds on the foundations of classical dance, often in surprising and thought-provoking ways. Mirrors provides a lens through which the audience can connect with the dancers on stage. Li Cirio and Lasha Khozashvili in Resonance. Photo: Yu-Ching Chang
TICKETS & CONTACT Boston Opera House 539 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111 (617) 695-6950 (617) 695-6955 (Box Office) www.bostonballet.org
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Boston Lyric Opera
Members of the BLO Chorus in La Traviata. BOSTON LYRIC OPERA is Photo: Eric Antoniou the largest opera company in all of New England. Now in its 40th season, BLO celebrates the art of the voice through its mission of building curiosity, enthusiasm, and support for opera by creating musically and theatrically compelling productions, events, and educational resources for the Boston community and beyond. Since its founding in 1976, the company has staged world premieres, U.S. premieres, co-productions, and co-commissions of note with organizations such as The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and Scottish Opera, and continues to be a destination for some of the leading artists, conductors, directors, and designers from around the world.
MARCH 11 – 20, 2016 WERTHER By JULES MASSENET Directed by CRYSTAL MANICH Conducted by DAVID ANGUS Featuring JOSEPH KAISER & SANDRA PIQUES EDDY IRRESISTIBLY MELODIC AND extraordinarily romantic, this new production of Massenet’s Werther is set in an arrondissement outside Paris and a cinematic dreamscape inspired by the poetic
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realism of film director Jean Renoir. Based on Goethe’s heartbreaking novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, the story unfolds as a dying artist recounts the love he cannot forget. APRIL 29 – MAY 8, 2016 THE MERRY WIDOW By FRANZ LEHÁR Directed by LILLIAN GROAG Conducted by ALEXANDER JOEL Featuring SUSANNA PHILLIPS & ROGER HONEYWELL AS HEADY AS CHAMPAGNE, Franz Lehár’s classic operetta The Merry Widow draws us into the opulent Paris of the legendary Maxim’s in this first-ever BLO production. Featuring a lush design and a new book by director Lillian Groag, The Merry Widow is set in 1913 Paris in the last moments before the glittering City of Light would be overshadowed by war – a party at the Susanna Phillips. end of the world. Photo: Zachary Maxwell
TICKETS & CONTACT Boston Lyric Opera 11 Avenue de Lafayette Boston, MA 02111 (617) 542-4912 www.blo.org
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Boston Philharmonic
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IN 1979, NINETY-SIX enthusiastic players, amateurs, students, and professionals and a dynamic and probing conductor named Benjamin Zander joined together to found the Boston Philharmonic. Today, the musicians represent the original spirited blend, and account for the passion, high level of participation, and technical accomplishment for which this ensemble is celebrated. The professionals maintain the highest standard, the students keep the focus on training and education, and the gifted amateurs – including doctors, lawyers, teachers, and computer programmers – remind everybody that music-making is an expression of enthusiasm and love. The Boston Philharmonic message rings loud and clear: music-making is a privilege and a joy, and above all, a collaborative adventure.
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FEBRUARY 18 – 21, 2016 SCHUMANN, MENDELSSOHN, AND ELGAR BENJAMIN ZANDER, Conductor JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI, Violin SCHUMANN, Manfred Overture MENDELSSOHN, Violin Concerto ELGAR, Symphony No. 1 Jennifer Frautschi. Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
APRIL 24, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Symphony Hall VERDI’S REQUIEM BENJAMIN ZANDER, Conductor ANGELA MEADE, Soprano VIOLETA URMANA, Mezzo-soprano STEPHEN COSTELLO, Tenor DANIEL BOROWSKI, Bass CHORUS PRO MUSICA VERDI, Requiem Mass TICKETS & CONTACT Boston Philharmonic Orchestra 295 Huntington Avenue, Suite 210 Boston, MA 02116 (617) 236-0999 www.bostonphil.org
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
NOW IN ITS 135th season, Ludovic Morlot and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. the Boston Symphony Photo: Craig T. Mathew/Mathew Imaging Orchestra gave its inaugural concert in 1881, realizing the dream of its founder, the Civil War veteran/philanthropist Henry Lee Higginson, who envisioned a great and permanent orchestra in his hometown of Boston. Today the BSO reaches millions of listeners, not only through its concert performances in Boston and at Tanglewood, but also via the internet, radio, television, educational programs, recordings, and tours. It commissions works from today’s most important composers; its summer season at Tanglewood is among the world’s most important music festivals. The Boston Symphony Chamber Players, made up of BSO principals, are known worldwide, and the Boston Pops Orchestra sets an international standard for performances of lighter music.
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JANUARY 7 – 12, 2016 GOSSEC, MOZART, AND BEETHOVEN FRANÇOIS-XAVIER ROTH, Conductor ELIZABETH ROWE, Flute JESSICA ZHOU, Harp GOSSEC, Symphonie à 17 parties MOZART, Concerto in C for Flute and Harp BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 3, “Eroica” JANUARY 10, 2016, 3:00 P.M. CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HENRI DUTILLEUX’S BIRTHDAY BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS DUKAS, Villanelle DUTILLEUX, Sonatine DUTILLEUX, Sarabande et cortège DUTILLEUX, Coral, cadence et fugato DUTILLEUX, Les Citations RAVEL, Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé RAVEL, Introduction and Allegro JANUARY 14 & 16, 2016, 8:00 P.M. DEBUSSY, DUTILLEUX, CANTELOUBE, AND STRAVINSKY FRANÇOIS-XAVIER ROTH, Conductor RENÉE FLEMING, Soprano DEBUSSY, Jeux DUTILLEUX, Le Temps L’Horloge CANTELOUBE, Selection of Songs of the Auvergne STRAVINSKY, Petrushka (1911 version)
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JANUARY 15, 2016, 8:00 P.M. CASUAL FRIDAYS: MOZART AND STRAVINSKY FRANÇOIS-XAVIER ROTH, Conductor ELIZABETH ROWE, Flute JESSICA ZHOU, Harp MOZART, Concerto in C for Flute and Harp, K. 299 STRAVINSKY, Petrushka (1911 version) JANUARY 21, 2016, 10:30 A.M. OPEN REHEARSAL: SMETANA, MARTINU, AND DVORÁK JANUARY 21 – 23, 2016 SMETANA, MARTINU, AND DVORÁK JIRI BELOHLÁVEK, Conductor JOHANNES MOSER, Cello SMETANA, The Moldau MARTINU, Fantaisies symphoniques DVORÁK, Cello Concerto JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 2, 2016 WEBER, HENZE, AND MENDELSSOHN ANDRIS NELSONS, Conductor AMANDA FORSYTHE, Soprano ABIGAIL FISCHER, Mezzosoprano WOMEN OF THE TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS WEBER, Overture to Oberon HENZE, Symphony No. 8 MENDELSSOHN, Incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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FEBRUARY 4 – 6, 2016 SHOSTAKOVICH, ABRAHAMSEN, AND PROKOFIEV ANDRIS NELSONS, Conductor BARBARA HANNIGAN, Soprano SHOSTAKOVICH, Suite from Hamlet ABRAHAMSEN, let me tell you PROKOFIEV, Suite from Romeo and Juliet
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FEBRUARY 11 & 13, 2016, 8:00 P.M. STRAUSS, DVORÁK, TSONTAKIS, AND TCHAIKOVSKY ANDRIS NELSONS, Conductor ROBERT SHEENA, English Horn STRAUSS, Macbeth DVORÁK, Othello Overture TSONTAKIS, Sonnets (World Premiere) TCHAIKOVSKY, Romeo and Juliet FEBRUARY 12, 2016, 8:00 P.M. CASUAL FRIDAYS: STRAUSS, TSONTAKIS, AND TCHAIKOVSKY ANDRIS NELSONS, Conductor ROBERT SHEENA, English Horn STRAUSS, Macbeth TSONTAKIS, Sonnets (World Premiere) TCHAIKOVSKY, Romeo and Juliet FEBRUARY 14, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Chevalier Theatre COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT FEBRUARY 18 – 20, 2016 HAYDN, HARTMANN, AND BEETHOVEN VLADIMIR JUROWSKI, Conductor ALINA IBRAGIMOVA, Violin HAYDN, Symphony No. 26, “Lamentatione” HARTMANN, Concerto funebre HAYDN, Violin Concerto No. 1 in C BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 2
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FEBRUARY 25 – 27, 2016 BERLIOZ AND DUTILLEUX CHARLES DUTOIT, Conductor PAUL GROVES, Tenor TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS VOICES BOSTON BERLIOZ, Resurrexit DUTILLEUX, Timbres, espace, mouvement BERLIOZ, Te Deum FEBRUARY 28, 2016, 3:00 P.M. The Cabot Theatre COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT MARCH 3 – 5, 2016 RAVEL AND FALLA CHARLES DUTOIT, Conductor JAVIER PERIANES, Piano DANIELA MACK, Mezzo-soprano BENJAMIN HULETT, Tenor FRANÇOIS PIOLINO, Tenor JEAN-LUC BALLESTRA, Baritone DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON, Bass-baritone RAVEL, Rapsodie espagnole FALLA, Nights in the Gardens of Spain RAVEL, L’Heure espagnole
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MARCH 5, 2016, 12:00 P.M. BSO FAMILY CONCERT – GROWING UP WHOLE: HEARING THE ORCHESTRA GROW THOMAS WILKINS, Conductor
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MARCH 6, 2016, 3:00 P.M. The Strand Theatre COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT MARCH 10 – 15, 2016 BLOMSTEDT CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN HERBERT BLOMSTEDT, Conductor GARRICK OHLSSON, Piano BEETHOVEN, Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 7 MARCH 13, 2016, 3:00 P.M. BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS: ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM GARRICK OHLSSON, Piano MARCH 17, 2016, 10:30 A.M. OPEN REHEARSAL: HIGDON, WILLIAMS, AND SAINT-SAËNS MARCH 17 & 19, 2016, 8:00 P.M. HIGDON, WILLIAMS, AND SAINTSAËNS STÉPHANE DENÈVE, Conductor GIL SHAHAM, Violin HIGDON, Blue Cathedral WILLIAMS, Violin Concerto SAINT-SAËNS, Symphony No. 3 MARCH 18, 2016, 1:30 P.M. Fenway Center at Northeastern University FENWAY COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT MARCH 18, 2016, 8:00 P.M. CASUAL FRIDAYS: WILLIAMS AND SAINT-SAËNS STÉPHANE DENÈVE, Conductor GIL SHAHAM, Violin
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WILLIAMS, Violin Concerto SAINT-SAËNS, Symphony No. 3 MARCH 20, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Chelsea High School COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT MARCH 24 – 26, 2016 KANCHELI, RACHMANINOFF, AND SHOSTAKOVICH ANDRIS NELSONS, Conductor NIKOLAI LUGANSKY, Piano TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS KANCHELI, Dixi RACHMANINOFF, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini SHOSTAKOVICH, Symphony No. 8
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MARCH 31, 2016, 10:30 A.M. OPEN REHEARSAL: BEETHOVEN AND MAHLER
MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2016 BEETHOVEN AND MAHLER BERNARD HAITINK, Conductor MURRAY PERAHIA, Piano BEETHOVEN, Piano Concerto No. 4 MAHLER, Symphony No. 1 APRIL 1, 2016, 1:30 P.M. Fenway Center at Northeastern University FENWAY COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT APRIL 3, 2016, 2:30 P.M. CONCERTS FOR VERY YOUNG PEOPLE
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APRIL 3, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Methuen High School COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT APRIL 7 – 12, 2016 MOZART AND BRUCKNER ANDRIS NELSONS, Conductor MALCOLM LOWE, Violin STEVEN ANSELL, Viola MOZART, Sinfonia concertante, K. 364 BRUCKNER, Symphony No. 3 Andris Nelsons. Photo: Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times
APRIL 10, 2016, 12:00 & 3:00 P.M. ONE-HOUR VERSION OF ROSSINI’S CINDERELLA FEDERICO CORTESE, Conductor EDWARD BERKELEY, Stage Director MUSICIANS OF THE BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY MUSICIANS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ROSSINI, Cinderella APRIL 14 – 16, 2016 NELSONS CONDUCTS MAHLER ANDRIS NELSONS, Conductor MAHLER, Symphony No. 9 APRIL 17, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Barrington Stage Company COMMUNITY CHAMBER CONCERT APRIL 21 – 23, 2016 DUTILLEUX, RACHMANINOFF, TCHAIKOVSKY, DEBUSSY, AND RAVEL ANDRIS NELSONS, Conductor KRISTINE OPOLAIS, Soprano DUTILLEUX, Métaboles
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RACHMANINOFF, Zdes’khorosho (How Fair This Place), Op. 21 TCHAIKOVSKY, Letter scene from Eugene Onegin DEBUSSY, La Mer RAVEL, La Valse APRIL 24, 2016, 3:00 P.M. BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS APRIL 26 – 28, 2016 YOUTH CONCERT – SOUND DECISIONS: A MUSICAL LOOK AT CHOICE, CHANCE, AND APPLICATION THOMAS WILKINS, Conductor
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APRIL 30, 2016, 12:00 P.M. BSO FAMILY CONCERT SERIES: WICKED AWESOME MARTA ZURAD, Conductor BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS MATT ROBERTS, Magician TICKETS & CONTACT Boston Symphony Orchestra 301 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 266-1492 (General) (617) 266-1200 (Tickets) www.bso.org
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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
DeWitt Godfrey, Lincoln, 2012, corESTABLISHED IN 1950, ten steel and bolts, Lent by the artist, deCordova Sculpture Park and Project supported in part by The Research Council at Museum is the largest park of its Colgate University. kind in New England encompassPhoto: Rick Mansfield ing 30 acres, 20 miles northwest of Boston. In 2009, deCordova changed its name from deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park to deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum to emphasize its renewed focus on sculpture and to support the institution’s goal of becoming a premier Sculpture Park by 2020. Providing a constantly changing landscape of large-scale, outdoor, modern and contemporary sculpture and site-specific installations, the Sculpture Park hosts more than 60 works, the majority of which are on loan to the Museum. Inside, the Museum features a robust slate of rotating exhibitions and innovative interpretive programming.
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ARCHITECTURAL ALLUSIONS JULY 8, 2015 – MAY 1, 2016 ONE OF DECORDOVA’S first themed outdoor exhibitions, Architectural Allusions is an international group exhibition of new commissions, long-term loans, and permanent collection works that explores the presence of Monika Sosnowska, Tower, 2014. Steel, paint, 131 x architecture in contem1269 x 263 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. © Monika Sosnowska. porary sculpture. Using Photo: Rick Mansfield/Anchor Imagery concrete, granite, glass, and other materials, exhibiting artists reinvent architectural traditions from ancient ziggurats to modernist pavilions. The exhibition features work by Stephanie Cardon, Dan Graham, Esther Kläs, Sol LeWitt, Monika Sosnowska, Kenneth Snelson, and Oscar Tuazon. PLATFORM 15: OSCAR TUAZON, PARTNERS OCTOBER 8, 2014 – MAY 1, 2016 FOR PARTNERS, LOS ANGELES-BASED artist Oscar Tuazon built a rectilinear concrete sculpture joined to one of deCordova’s sugar maple trees. The human-made and natural elements combine to create a post-and-lintel support structure, a basic architectural form consisting of a horizontal beam carried by vertical posts. Tuazon often uses this form as a vehicle to explore his long-standing interest in the line between effective utilitarian forms and failed architectural experiments. Framed within the broader discussions concerning humankind’s role in environmental degradation, Partners suggests incompatibility between societal progress and the processes of the natural world. While these two different systems
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come together here to create an appearance of stability, the pillar is ultimately an incongruous graft onto the distinct order of the natural realm. PLATFORM 16: ESTHER KLÄS, FERMA (5) MARCH 1, 2015 – MAY 1, 2016 FOR FERMA (5), Esther Kläs cut two planar forms from a block of granite and placed them along the forested-edge of deCordova’s Sculpture Park. Resting on the earth and largely hidden from view, Ferma (5) is meant to be discovered, evoking associations with architectural ruins and stone-laid pathways. The coarse surfaces of the low-lying plinths are punctured with drilled holes and scored with the straight channels that are the product of their quarrying, resulting in richly textured forms that are activated by the natural interplay of light and shadow. Kläs created Ferma (5) for the sixteenth iteration of deCordova’s PLATFORM series, a program which invites artists to create site-specific sculptures that engage with the Sculpture Park’s unique landscape. PLATFORM 17: STEPHANIE CARDON, BEACON JULY 8, 2015 – MAY 1, 2016 STEPHANIE CARDON’S BEACON consists of two concrete pillars connected by planes of thin electric yellow cables. Installed over a pathway on the Sculpture Park grounds, the structure forms a Stephanie Cardon, Beacon, 2015. Concrete and passageway that visitors vinyl-coated steel cable, 186 x 432 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist can walk under and look Photo: Jennifer Schmitt up through to experience the optical vibrations produced by its fluorescent cable lattice. The conspicuous contrast between the lightweight cords and the solid concrete invites reflection on the sculpture’s construction. Cardon
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seeks to disturb the viewer’s usual understanding of space. The overlapping planes of yellow cords in Beacon create semi-translucent moiré effects that question a clear distinction between the sculpture and the surrounding natural environment. DRAWING REDEFINED: RONI HORN, ESTHER KLÄS, JOELLE TUERLINCKX, RICHARD TUTTLE, AND JORINDE VOIGT OCTOBER 3, 2015 – MARCH 20, 2016 DRAWING REDEFINED PRESENTS the distinctive work of Roni Horn, Esther Kläs, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle, and Jorinde Voigt, artists who have maintained a discipline of drawing as a constituent element of their artistic practice. For these artists, drawing is a forum for experimentation, a study, and an expansion of the vocabulary of images that recur in their art. In these artists’ hands and through their bodies, the traditional practice of drawing is transformed into an exploration of time and space manifest in forms beyond conventional linear representation in photographic, painterly, and sculptural work. THE SCULPTOR’S EYE: PRINTS, DRAWINGS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OCTOBER 3, 2015 – MARCH 20, 2016 DRAWN FROM DECORDOVA’S permanent collection, this exhibition features works on paper and photographs by more than thirty artists who are primarily considered sculptors. Their work reveals the multitude of connections between two- and three-dimensional art-making processes and the means by which artists nurture and expand their creative vision. On view are photographs of sculptural forms that explore shared issues of space and volume. Pencil and charcoal drawings display the inventive ways in which artists experiment with spatial illusion on flat surfaces with graphic gestures, contours, and colors. Plans for large-scale art installations exemplify the tradition of artists considering architectural and environmental spaces. Altogether, these works emphasize the interplay of materiality, line, and form across artistic mediums. TICKETS & CONTACT DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park 51 Sandy Pond Road Lincoln, MA 01773 (781) 259-8355 www.decordova.org 44
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Photo: James Doyle FOUNDED IN BOSTON in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) is considered America’s oldest continuously performing arts organization, celebrating its Bicentennial in 2015. Its Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus are internationally recognized in the field of Historically Informed Performance, using the instruments and techniques of the composer’s time. Under Artistic Director Harry Christophers’s leadership, the mission of the Handel and Haydn Society is to enrich life and influence culture by performing Baroque and Classical music at the highest levels of artistic excellence, and by providing engaging, accessible, and broadly inclusive music education and training activities. H+H’s Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus present live and recorded historically informed performances of this repertoire in ways that stimulate the musical and cultural development of our Greater Boston community and contemporary audiences across the nation and beyond.
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JANUARY 29 & 31, 2016 Symphony Hall ALL HAYDN HARRY CHRISTOPHERS, Conductor AISSLINN NOSKY, Violin and Leader PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA HAYDN, Symphony No. 8, “Le Soir” HAYDN, Violin Concerto in A Major HAYDN, Symphony No. 84
FEBRUARY 26 & 28, 2016 Symphony Hall ALL BEETHOVEN RICHARD EGARR, Conductor ROBERT LEVIN, Fortepiano PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA BEETHOVEN, Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 6 MARCH 11 & 13, 2016 Symphony Hall BACH’S ST. JOHN PASSION HARRY CHRISTOPHERS, Conductor NICHOLAS MULROY, Tenor MATTHEW BROOK, Bass-baritone SONJA DUTOIT TENGBLAD, Soprano EMILY MARVOSH, Contralto PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS BACH, St. John Passion APRIL 8 & 10, 2016 NEC’s Jordan Hall / Sanders Theatre MOZART AND BEETHOVEN AISSLINN NOSKY, Leader and Violin ERIC HOEPRICH, Clarinet
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BEETHOVEN, Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 MOZART, Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 378/317d BEETHOVEN, String Trio, Op. 9, No. 3 APRIL 29 & MAY 1, 2016 Symphony Hall HANDEL’S SAUL HARRY CHRISTOPHERS, Conductor HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY CHORUS JONATHAN BEST, Bass-baritone IESTYN DAVIES, Countertenor ROBERT MURRAY, Tenor ELIZABETH ATHERTON, Soprano JOÉLLE HARVEY, Soprano HANDEL, Saul
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Harvard Art Museums
Renovated Harvard Art Museums THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS designed by Renzo Piano. are like a small metropolitan Photo: Peter Vanderwarker museum on the campus of a major university. Their internationally renowned collections number among the largest in the United States. And like the university that surrounds them, research, teaching, and learning are at their core. In partnership with Harvard faculty and staff, as well as peer institutions like the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, they connect encyclopedic collections to coursework and plan thoughtful installations, special exhibitions, and programs designed to engage students and visitors. They encourage close looking and critical thinking through the examination of original works of art. Opening to the public on November 16, 2014, the Harvard Art Museums’ unique place in the museum landscape will be clear, both architecturally and programmatically. Whether visitors are learning about the complex relationship between painting and photography in the 19th century in the permanent collections galleries, viewing a recent gift of Japanese Edo-period painted screens in the University Galleries, or marveling at an ancient Greek drinking vessel in the Art Study Center, they will experience the difference of a teaching museum that supports learning through art.
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CORITA KENT AND THE LANGUAGE OF POP SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 – MAY 8, 2016 AMERICAN ARTIST CORITA KENT juxtaposed spiritual, pop cultural, literary, and political writings alongside symbols of consumer culture and modern life in order to create bold images and prints during the 1960s. Also known as Sister Mary Corita, Kent is often seen as a curiosity or an anomaly in the pop art movement. Corita Kent and the Language of Pop positions Kent and her work within the pop art idiom, showing how she is an innovative contemporary of Andy Warhol, Edward Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, and other pop art icons. More than 60 of Kent’s prints appear alongside about the same number of works by her prominent contemporaries, along with a selection of films, books, and other works. EVERYWHEN: THE ETERNAL PRESENT IN INDIGENOUS ART FROM AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 5 – SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 THE ETERNAL PRESENT in Indigenous Art from Australia will survey contemporary Indigenous art from Australia, exploring the ways in which time is embedded within Indigenous artistic, social, historical, and philosophical life. For Indigenous people, the past is understood to be part of a cyclical and circular order known as the “everywhen”; conceptions of time rely on active encounters with both the ancestral and natural worlds. The exhibition will showcase more than 70 works drawn from public and private collections in Australia and the United States, and will feature many works that have never been seen outside Australia. Large-scale works by many of the most significant Indigenous artists are included. TICKETS & CONTACT Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-9400 www.harvardartmuseums.org
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Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre RECIPIENT OF THE 2013 RePhoto: Paul Marotta gional Theatre Tony Award and Boston magazine’s 2013 Best of Boston award, the Huntington Theatre Company is Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premiere cultural assets. Under the direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso, and in residence at Boston University, the Huntington cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form. The Huntington brings together world-class theatre artists from Boston, Broadway, and beyond with the most promising new talent to create eclectic seasons of exciting new works and classics made current. A national leader in the development of new plays, the Huntington has produced more than 100 New England, American, or world premiere to date. It supports local writers through its new playwright-in-residency and the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, the cornerstones of its new work activities.
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JANUARY 8 – FEBRUARY 7, 2016 BU Theatre DISGRACED By AYAD AKHTAR Directed by GORDON EDELSTEIN HIGH-POWERED NEW YORK lawyer Amir has climbed the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his Muslim roots. When he and his wife Emily host a dinner party, what starts as a friendly conversation escalates, shattering their views on race, religion, and each other. This electric and riveting drama is directed and designed by the same artistic team as its highly acclaimed Broadway run.
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JANUARY 8 – FEBRUARY 28, 2016 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA MILK LIKE SUGAR By KIRSTEN GREENIDGE Directed by M. BEVIN O’GARA ANNIE AND HER teenage friends want the same things: the hottest new phones, cute boys, designer bags. But when they enter into a pregnancy pact, she wonders if there might be a different path and a brighter future. Huntington Playwriting Fellow Kirsten Greenidge (Luck of the Irish) finds raw humor and gritty poetry in this provocative, ripped-from-the-headlines new play. MARCH 5 – APRIL 3, 2016 BU Theatre HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED By AUGUST WILSON Co-Conceived and Directed by TODD KREIDLER
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IN THIS SOLO SHOW, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson shares stories about his first few jobs, a stint in jail, his lifelong friends, and his encounters with racism, music, and love as a young poet in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. This theatrical memoir charts one man’s journey of self-discovery through adversity, and what it means to be a black artist in America. MARCH 25 – APRIL 24, 2016 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? By GINA GIONFRIDDO Directed by PETER DUBOIS IT’S HALLOWEEN NIGHT, and Miranda is desperate for a way out. She’s up to her neck in debt, she might be in falling for the man who pays her bills, and now her date has threatened to kill her. A charismatic stranger offers shelter and a drink; where will the night take them? MAY 27 – JUNE 26, 2016 Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU Written and Directed by CRAIG LUCAS AT THANKSGIVING DINNER, Knox shares that he is grateful for three things he thought were a curse: being Deaf, being gay, and being an alcoholic. Written both in English and American Sign Language, Craig Lucas’s funny, ambitious, and beautiful new play pulses with the exhilaration and ache of human connection.
TICKETS & CONTACT Avenue of the Arts – BU Theature 264 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 266-7900 (General) (617) 266-0800 (Box Office) www.huntingtontheatre.org
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ICA Boston interior. FOUNDED IN 1936 as The Photo courtesy of Diller & Scofidio Boston Museum of Modern Art, the museum was conceived as a laboratory where innovative approaches to art could be championed. In pursuit of this mission, in its early days, the museum established its reputation for identifying important new artists and changed its name a final time to become the Institute of Contemporary Art in 1948. For more than a half century, the ICA has presented contemporary art in all media – visual arts, film and video, performance, and literature – and created educational programs that encourage an appreciation for contemporary culture. Throughout the ICA’s history it has been at the fore in identifying and supporting the most important artists of its time and bringing them to public attention.
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LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK: BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE, 1933–1957 OCTOBER 10, 2015 – JANUARY 24, 2016 A SMALL, EXPERIMENTAL liberal arts college founded in 1933, Black Mountain College (BMC) has exerted enormous influence on the postwar cultural life of the United States. Influenced by the utopian ideals of the progressive education Jacob Lawrence, Watchmaker, 1946. Tempera movement, it placed and graphite on paper, 30 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches. the arts at the center of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Joseph H. liberal arts education and Hirshhorn. believed that in doing so it Photo: Lee Stalsworth. © 2015 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, could better educate citiSeattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), zens for participation in a New York democratic society. It was a dynamic crossroads for refugees from Europe and an emerging generation of American artists. Profoundly interdisciplinary, it offered equal attention to painting, weaving, sculpture, pottery, poetry, music, and dance. TRANSCENDING MATERIAL: ICA COLLECTION JULY 23, 2015 – JULY 17, 2016 SCULPTURE TODAY IS an expansive medium that includes a range of phenomena, forms, techniques, and materials; the category includes discrete objects, installations, staged video displays, and even performance. This display of collection works brings together pieces by a variety of artists who have used commonplace materials in new ways. Many employ everyday materials such as pins, glass, and wood, transcending their original function to suggest new material associations. Others use found objects and images to investigate socio-political contexts, creating new narratives
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for those objects. Yet other artists probe the complex relationship of rendering three-dimensional forms in two-dimensional moving and still image. These thematic threads, among others, reflect the expansive vitality and diversity of object-making today. Included will be works from Mark Bradford, Taylor Davis, Tara Donovan, Kader Attia, Rachel Harrison, Charles LeDray, Roy McMakin, and Josiah McElheny, among others. ETHAN MURROW: SEASTEAD JULY 11, 2015 – NOVEMBER 27, 2016 IN THE NINE YEARS since the ICA opened on the waterfront, curators have invited a series of leading contemporary artists to propose and realize monumental, site-specific works on the museum’s sprawling Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall. In considering whom to feature next, project curator Ruth Erickson says she was drawn to Boston artist Ethan Murrow’s virtuosic drawing ability and his “longstanding interest in landscapes as subjects of immense beauty and power.”A professor of painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Murrow is well known for photo-realistic graphite drawings that combine found and invented imagery to form unexpected scenes drenched with humor and irony. In recent years, Murrow has undertaken a series of increasingly ambitious wall drawings. These large-scale temporary pieces in ballpoint pen or marker expand the artist’s laborious drawing process into the realms of installation and architecture. DIANE SIMPSON DECEMBER 16, 2015 – MARCH 27, 2016 CHICAGO-BASED ARTIST Diane Simpson’s (b. 1935, Joliet, Illinois) elegantly constructed sculpture evolves from a diverse Diane Simpson, Formal Wear, 1998. Polyester, range of material, poplar, and cotton, 47 x 50 x 7 inches. clothing, and Courtesy of the artist, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, and JTT, New York. © Diane Simpson architectural sources.
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While elements of her creations appear to effortlessly hang and fold, they are in fact the result of a rigorous approach to construction techniques, reveling in passages of pattern, joinery, and skewed angles that are by turns humorous and psychologically charged. This concise survey of over 30 years of work will include a suite of preparatory drawings and sculptural work made from the early 1980s to the present in materials ranging from corrugated cardboard and medium-density fiberboard to aluminum, wool, polyester, poplar, faux fur, fleece, mahogany, brass, copper, and steel. This will be the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, AND HESAM RAHMANIAN: THE BIRTHDAY PARTY DECEMBER 16, 2015 – MARCH 27, 2016 RAMIN HAERIZADEH (b. Tehran, 1975), Rokni Haerizadeh (b. Tehran, 1978), and Hesam Rahmanian (b. Knoxville, 1980) live and work communally in a shared house in Dubai. The three Iranian artists – two brothers and their childhood friend – combine their individual work, and that of their friends, in sculpture, painting, drawing, and video, to generate consuming total environments. The ICA invites the trio to create an on-site installation in the gallery, joining the intimacy of the artists’ collective lifestyle with their critical engagement of a globalized contemporary culture. WALID RAAD FEBRUARY 24 – MAY 30, 2016 THIS EXHIBITION WILL be the first comprehensive North American museum survey of the internationally recognized artist Walid Raad (b. 1967, Lebanon), whose work in photography, video, sculpture, and performance in the last 25 years investigates the distinctions between fact and fiction and the ways we represent, remember, and make sense of history. Dedicated to themes exploring the veracity of archives and photographic documents in the public realm, the role of memory and narrative within discourses of conflict, and the construction of histories of art in the Arab world, Raad’s work is informed by an upbringing in Lebanon during the civil war (1975–1990) and recent socio-economic and
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military policies that have shaped the Middle East in the past few decades. The exhibition will feature a selection of works produced in the past 25 years in photography, video, and sculpture. GEOFFREY FARMER APRIL 13 – JULY 31, 2016 GEOFFREY FARMER (b. 1967, Vancouver) is best known for his installations and large-scale, sculptural photo collages. This immersive survey of the artist’s recent major “paper works” presents room-sized installations composed of hundreds of small sculptures made of cutout photographs, fabric, and various supports. In these recent works, processions of figures assembled from fragments of book and magazine photography and illustration manifest the artist’s interest in the cross-pollination of historical and vernacular imagery. Each spectacular composition begins to chart the historical contours of our image-saturated contemporary culture, and suggest the recurring cultural themes and formal patterns. Farmer uses movement, sound, animation, puppet characters, and a panoply of highly choreographed bodies and characters to investigate world history from the different angles of its photographic and sculptural accounts.
Geoffrey Farmer, Boneyard, 2013. Paper cutouts, wood, glue. Dimensions variable. Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York
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NALINI MALANI: IN SEARCH OF VANISHED BLOOD JULY 1 – OCTOBER 9, 2016 NALINI MALANI (b. 1946, Karachi) is India’s foremost video and installation artist and a committed activist for women’s rights. Born in Karachi in 1946, and currently living and working in Mumbai, Malani came to India as a refugee during the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, an experience that deeply informs her work. This exhibition centers on Malani’s signature multimedia installation, In Search of Vanished Blood (2012), the title of which is drawn from East German writer and critic Christa Wolf’s 1984 novel Cassandra, about a struggling female artist and visionary. Combining imagery from Eastern and Western cultures with sound, projected image, and light, In Search of Vanished Blood is an enthralling immersive experience. LIZ DESCHENES JULY 1 – OCTOBER 9, 2016 DESCHENES IS KNOWN for her lushly beautiful and meditative work in photography and sculpture, and since the early 1990s has produced a singular and influential body of work that probes the relationship between the mechanics of seeing, image-making processes, and modes of display. The first mid-career survey dedicated to Deschenes’s work, this exhibition will feature 20 years of her art, including explorations of various photographic technologies and the symbolic power of color, rich and nuanced work with photograms (a type of photographic image made without a camera), and sculptural installations that reflect the movements and light within a given space and respond to a site’s unique features. TICKETS & CONTACT Institute of Contemporary Art 100 Northern Avenue Boston, MA 02210 (617) 478-3100 (General) (617) 478-3103 (Box Office) www.icaboston.org
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THE MUSEUM THAT The new wing of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, designed by bears her name also Renzo Piano. Photo: Matthew Reed Baker stands as a testament to her vision. Isabella Stewart Gardner, known also as “Mrs. Jack” in reference to her husband, John L. (“Jack”) Gardner, was one of the foremost female patrons of the arts. She was a patron and friend of leading artists and writers of her time, including John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Henry James. She was a supporter of community social services and cultural enrichment. In 1903, she completed the construction of Fenway Court in Boston to house her collection and provide a vital place for Americans to access and enjoy important works of art. Isabella Gardner installed her collection of works in a way so as to evoke intimate responses to the art, mixing paintings, furniture, textiles, and objects from different cultures and periods among well-known European paintings and sculpture.
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ORNAMENT AND ILLUSION: CARLO CRIVELLI OF VENICE OCTOBER 22, 2015 – JANUARY 25, 2016 ORNAMENT AND ILLUSION is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Renaissance painter Carlo Crivelli in the United States. The Gardner’s newly conserved Saint George Slaying the Dragon is the touchstone for a two-part installation. The first reunites four of six surviving panels from Crivelli’s Porto San Giorgio altarpiece, of which the Gardner painting is a fragment. The second features 20 of Crivelli’s most important works from Europe and the U.S. Together, they will introduce visitors to the artist’s repertoire of dazzling pictorial effects, and refine each encounter with his bravura illusionism.
Carlo Crivelli, Saint George Slaying the Dragon, c. 1470. Tempera and gold on wood, 34 1/2 x 18 inches. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
TICKETS & CONTACT Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 280 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 (617) 566-1401 (General) (617) 278-5156 (Box Office) www.gardnermuseum.org
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Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. THE ORIGINAL MFA opened Photo courtesy of Foster & Partners its doors to the public on July 4, 1876, the nation’s centennial. Built in Copley Square, the MFA was then home to 5,600 works of art. Over the next several years, the collection and number of visitors grew exponentially, and in 1909 the Museum moved to its current home on Huntington Avenue. Today, the MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world; the collection encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art. It welcomes more than one million visitors each year to experience art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary, special exhibitions, and innovative educational programs. The Museum has undergone significant expansion and change in recent years; 2010 marked the opening of the Art of the Americas Wing, with four levels of American art from ancient to modern. In 2011, the west wing of the Museum was transformed into the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, with new galleries for contemporary art, and social and learning spaces. Improved and new galleries for European, Asian, and African art opened throughout 2013, with more to come.
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CLASS DISTINCTIONS: DUTCH PAINTING IN THE AGE OF REMBRANDT AND VERMEER OCTOBER 11, 2015 – JANUARY 18, 2016 ORGANIZED BY THE MFA, this groundbreaking exhibition proposes a new approach to understanding 17th-century Dutch painting. Through 75 carefully selected, beautifully preserved portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, and seascapes borrowed from European and American public and private collections – including masterpieces never before seen in the United States – the show reflects, for the first time, the ways in which paintings represent the various socioeconomic groups of the new Dutch Republic, from the Princes of Orange to the most indigent. Arranged according to 17th-century ideas about social stratification, paintings by artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jan Steen, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch, and Gabriel Metsu are divided broadly into three classes – upper, middle, and lower – and within them, into sub-groups.
IN THE STEPS OF THE MASTER: PUPILS OF HOKUSAI AUGUST 29, 2015 – FEBRUARY 15, 2016 THE AMAZING VERSATILITY of the great Katsushika Hokusai is reflected in the work of his many pupils, who Yashima Gakutei, Pangu (Banko shi), c. were inspired by their master 1821. Woodblock print, ink and color on paper. to produce outstanding William Sturgis Bigelow Collection prints and paintings of many different subjects: beautiful women, historical warriors, landscapes, still lifes, and fabulous monsters. This exhibition examines the first wave of Hokusai’s impact on the Japanese art world, during his own lifetime and shortly thereafter, as seen in the work of the artists who studied with him in person. Hokusai’s 66
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influence was especially strong in the area of surimono, privately commissioned prints made with the finest materials and techniques that were often exchanged as gifts by the affluent members of amateur poetry clubs. Three of the most important and prolific designers of surimono – Shinsai, Hokkei, and Gakutei – were all artistic descendants of Hokusai. The combination of skill and ingenuity that these artists shared with their teacher made their work extremely attractive to the surimono patrons. MADE IN THE AMERICAS: THE NEW WORLD DISCOVERS ASIA AUGUST 18, 2015 – FEBRUARY 15, 2016 WITHIN DECADES OF the “discovery” of America by Spain in 1492, goods from Asia traversed the globe via Spanish and Portuguese traders. The Americas became a major destination for Asian objects and Mexico became an international hub of commerce. The impact of the importation of these goods was immediate and widespread, both among the European colonizers and the indigenous populations, who readily adapted their own artistic traditions to the new fashion for Asian imports. Made in the Americas is the first large-scale, Pan-American exhibition to examine the profound influence of Asia on the arts of the colonial Americas. Featuring nearly 100 of the most extraordinary objects produced in the colonies, this exhibition explores the rich, complex story of how craftsmen throughout the hemisphere adapted Asian styles in a range of materials. PASTORAL TO POP: 20TH-CENTURY BRITAIN ON PAPER JULY 11, 2015 – FEBRUARY 21, 2016 THIS SURVEY OF MORE than 50 British prints and drawings from the 20th century features rarely seen works from the MFA’s collection as well as recent acquisitions and loans. Ranging from an 1890s drawing of Brittany by Post Impressionist Robert Bevan to a 1999 etching by Lucian Freud – perhaps the greatest figural artist of his generation – this selection presents a surprising mixture of subjects and styles. Highlights of the exhibition are streamlined color linocuts made by Grosvenor School artists Cyril Power, Sybil Andrews, and Lill Tschudi, while abstract works on view demonstrate the “Vorticist” style – a uniquely British variant of Futurism
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and Cubism. Other sections of the exhibition touch on landscape, architecture, and the music hall; differing depictions of the human figure (including works by Henry Moore and David Hockney); and the British Pop explosion of the 1960s. UNFINISHED STORIES: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE PETER J. COHEN COLLECTION JULY 11, 2015 – FEBRUARY 21, 2016 SPANNING THE 20TH CENTURY, the almost 300 found photographs in Unfinished Stories depict a century of image-making by private photographers. “A quick shot Unknown, Untitled, c. 1950s. Gelatin fired by a hunter without desilver print Gift of Peter J. Cohen liberate aim,” reads the original definition of a snapshot from the early 19th century. The term “snapshot,” popularized shortly after the invention of Kodak’s box camera in the 1880s, came to describe photographs of everyday life using a handheld camera. Speedy new technology boosted the ability to create a visual diary, commemorating events and personal moments, road trips, and holidays. Now, more than a century later, these once ubiquitous and now historic silver gelatin photographs are rapidly being replaced by Instagram and other digital forms of photography, hence a new appreciation for such photographs. Unfinished Stories celebrates a century of snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen Collection of amateur photographs. These pictures reveal the lives of strangers through intimate exposures, telling a story, or as Cohen puts it, “a teeny part of a story that remains unfinished.”
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LANDSCAPE, ABSTRACTED AUGUST 16, 2014 – JULY 30, 2017 THIS NEW INSTALLATION in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art’s Eunice and Julian Cohen Galleria offers a contemporary spin on landscape art. Ten works, including sculptures, paintings, installation, and video art, present contemporary art as the latest chapter in the story of landscape art through the ages, as told by the MFA’s encyclopedic collection. Works include a number of new acquisitions that have never before been on view, as well as new commissions by Jason Middlebrook and Anne Lindberg. Their soaring creations evoke nature’s sublime potential through color and pattern, using the dramatic architecture of the Linde Family Wing to guide their work. GOLD AND THE GODS: JEWELS OF ANCIENT NUBIA JULY 19, 2014 – MAY 14, 2017 THIS DAZZLING EXHIBITION focuses on the Museum’s worldclass collection of jewelry from Ancient Nubia (located in what is now Sudan). The Nubian adornments housed at the MFA constitute the most comprehensive collection outside of Khartoum. As the conduit between the Mediterranean world and lands south of the Nile Valley, Nubia was known for its exotic luxury goods – especially gold. Gold and the Gods focuses on excavated ornaments from an early 20th-century expedition by the Museum with Harvard University, dating from 1700 BC to 300 AD, including both uniquely Nubian and foreign imports, prized for their materials, craftsmanship, symbolism, and rarity. Gold and the Gods includes more than one hundred treasures, including a gilt-silver mummy mask of Queen Malakaye and the famous Hathor-headed crystal pendant. MEGACITIES ASIA APRIL 3 – JULY 17, 2016 MONUMENTAL SCULPTURES AND installations represent the unique urban environments of Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbai, Delhi, and Seoul – Asian “megacities” with populations of 10 million or more. The artists – some well-known, others emerging – respond
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to the unprecedented scale and pace of 21st-century South and East Asian urban life by gathering and arranging everyday objects, using the city itself as their medium to Ai Weiwei, Forever, 2003. 42 steel create immersive physical bicycles. experiences that evoke and Photo: Ai Weiwei respond to recent conditions in these Asian metropolises. Their large-scale works appear in indoor and outdoor spaces throughout the Museum, reflecting critical issues including rural-to-urban migration, consumption, construction, and pollution, while celebrating the vibrancy of today’s urban environment. From the endless stream of migrants in densely packed Mumbai to the bicycles that until recently filled the streets of Beijing, works by Hema Upadhyay and Ai Weiwei evoke the constant motion that characterizes emerging megacities. #TECHSTYLE MARCH 5 – JULY 10, 2016 CLOTHES THAT RESPOND to the environment, dresses you can tweet, and garments that come off a 3-D printer ready to wear – all of these innovations are poised to have a profound impact on the future of the fashion industry. Designers have embraced these innovations and #techstyle explores how the synergy between fashion and technology is not only changing the way designers design, but also the way people interact with their clothing. The exhibition draws on the MFA’s collection of contemporary fashion and accessories, and features key pieces from innovators in the
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field including a digitally-printed dress from Alexander McQueen’s Plato’s Atlantis collection (Spring/Summer 2010/2011) and Iris van Herpen’s 3-D printed dress (2013) produced in collaboration with MIT designer and assistant professor Neri Oxman. Visitors experience the cutting edge of hi-tech fashion with special commissions created by Cute Circuit, The Unseen, Hussein Chalayan, and Cambridge-based Nervous System. HIRO: PHOTOGRAPHS DECEMBER 12, 2015 – AUGUST 14, 2016 HIRO (B. 1930) IS known for his distinctively conceived and precisely realized images across a range of subjects including fashion, portraiture, and still life. Born Yasuhiro Wakabayashi in Shanghai to Japanese parents, he grew up in China and spent the years following WWII in Japan before coming to the U.S. in 1954. Early in his career, Hiro worked as an assistant for the celebrated photographer Richard Avedon who, upon recognizing Hiro’s talents, introduced him to Alexey Brodovitch, the legendary art director of Harper’s Bazaar. By the early 1960s Hiro had become a widely admired figure in the field. His work was known for its originality and technical innovation, with bold uses of light and color, and an elegant sense of surrealism. This exhibition focuses on a selection of Hiro’s fashion images that demonstrate how he applied his unique visual aesthetic to the work of fashion and jewelry designers such as Halston, Pierre Cardin, Harry Winston, and Elsa Peretti, among others. This will be the first solo exhibition of Hiro’s work to be held in a major American museum. KENNETH PAUL BLOCK: ILLUSTRATIONS DECEMBER 12, 2015 – AUGUST 14, 2016 KENNETH PAUL BLOCK (1925–2009) is arguably the most important fashion illustrator of the second half of the 20th century. His versatility and ability to create a graceful gesture or evoke the high energy of the post-WWII generation make his work stand out among illustrators of his time. Throughout his career, mainly with Women’s Wear Daily and W Magazine, he chronicled fash-
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ionable designs and the lifestyles of the people who wore them. Blending illustration and portraiture, his drawings of figures like Jacqueline Kennedy, Babe Paley, and Gloria Guinness capture the sophistication of the era’s socialites and celebrities. This chronological survey contains approximately 30 works spanning Block’s career from the 1950s into the 1990s, drawing from the MFA’s repository of Block’s extensive archive of drawings. Including examples of fashion illustrations and society portraits, works range from early black-and-white drawings in charcoal to later works in watercolor and colored pencil. MARILYN ARSEM: 100 WAYS TO CONSIDER TIME NOVEMBER 9, 2015 – FEBRUARY 19, 2016 MARILYN ARSEM: 100 WAYS TO CONSIDER TIME debuts a new durational performance by the MFA’s 2015 Maud Morgan Prize recipient. Established in 1993 in recognition of the spirit of adventure and independence embodied by noted New England artist Maud Morgan (1903–99), the Prize honors a Massachusetts woman artist who has demonstrated creativity and vision, making significant contributions to the contemporary arts landscape. Arsem (b. 1951) is the first performance artist to receive the Prize. She has been a fundamental figure in the field of performance art since the late 1970s, and was a faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) for 27 years. Having performed 180 pieces around the world over the Marilyn Arsem, US Domestic Policy II, 2010. last three decades, Performance at Live Action New York 10, Grace she has had an Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY. Photo: Denis Romanovski enormous impact
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on multiple generations of performance artists in Boston and internationally. Founder of Mobius, a Boston-area collaborative of interdisciplinary artists, Arsem was central to maintaining the presence of performance art locally and nationally when the art form struggled for recognition and funding. TICKETS & CONTACT Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Avenue of the Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 267-9300 (General) (800) 440-6975 (Box Office) www.mfa.org
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New Repertory Theatre
The Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 NOW IN ITS third decade, Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA New Rep has established itself Courtesy: New Repertory Theatre as one of Boston’s premiere theatre companies. Celebrated for electrifying, compelling, and poignant productions, New Rep plays reflect our world and community and regularly explore ideas that have vital resonance in our lives – here and now. New Rep shows are provocative, intelligent, and entertaining. New Repertory Theatre has a commitment to bringing new works to the stage. Since 1984, New Rep has produced 63 East Coast, New England, Boston, or World Premieres, including works by Thomas Gibbons, Athol Fugard, Suzan-Lori Parks, Michael Weller, Dael Orlandersmith, J.T. Rogers, Joyce Van Dyke, Doug Wright, and Steve Yockey. New Rep is the Boston representative in the National New Play Network (NNPN), an alliance of not-for-profit professional theatres that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays for the American theatre.
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JANUARY 2 – 31, 2016 Black Box Theater VIA DOLOROSA By DAVID HARE Featuring DAVID BRYAN JACKSON IN 1997, OLIVIER Award-winning playwright David Hare visited Israel and Palestine to better understand the complex conflicts of the region and to write a play based on his David Hare. Photo: Andrew Crowley travels. Via Dolorosa is the illuminating result, combining interviews and conversations with artists, politicians, historians, and settlers with the author’s own experiences in an extraordinary narrative that examines ideologies and issues of faith from those living in “The Holy Land.” JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 28, 2016 Black Box Theater THE TESTAMENT OF MARY By COLM TÓIBÍN Directed by JIM PETOSA Featuring PAULA LANGTON YEARS AFTER HER son’s death, Mary, mother of Jesus, is visited by the Gospel writers seeking the truth. In an honest, insightful, and moving first-person narrative, Mary recounts her son’s final days. Based on the novella by author and playwright Colm Tóibín, this Tony-nominated play provides a stunning glimpse into the heart and mind of a grieving mother as she’s left with the question: was it worth it?
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FEBRUARY 10 – 28, 2016 BU Lane-Comley Studio 210 BALTIMORE By KIRSTEN GREENIDGE Directed by ELAINE VAAN HOGUE AFTER SHE’S DISMISSED from her job in the athletics department, Shelby Wilson becomes Resident Advisor to a group of freshmen – after all, it’ll look good on her resume. She soon discovers that a racially charged incident has set student against student, and it’s up to her to mediate the situation. In this world premiere production, playwright Kirsten Greenidge explores the complexities of racism from the perspective of eight culturally diverse college students. MARCH 26 – APRIL 17, 2016 Charles Mosesian Theater BLACKBERRY WINTER By STEVE YOCKEY Directed by BRIDGET KATHLEEN O’LEARY SUCCESS, METICULOUS PLANNING, and an eye for detail have in no way prepared Vivienne for the news inside that little white envelope. Even with the aid of a creation myth of her own imagination and Steve Yockey. her insomnia-driven baking, Photo: Red King Dreaming apprehension takes hold as she grapples with the frightening thought of her mother fading away from advancing Alzheimer’s Disease. A National New Play Network (NNPN) Rolling World Premiere, Blackberry Winter is a humorous and touching new work.
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APRIL 30 – MAY 22, 2016 Charles Mosesian Theater FREUD’S LAST SESSION By MARK ST. GERMAIN Directed by JIM PETOSA
Freud's Last Session. By Mark St. Germain. Directed By Jim Petosa
ON THE BRINK of war in Europe, author and former atheist C.S. Lewis visits the London home of Dr. Sigmund Freud. Lewis’s recent embrace of Christianity stands in stark contrast to Dr. Freud, whose beliefs are influenced by his life’s work in science. Amidst evacuations and air raid sirens these two legendary scholars debate religion, sex, love, the existence of God, and the meaning of life itself. Filled with humanity, humor, and razorsharp dialogue, Freud’s Last Session imagines the meeting of two of the 20th century’s greatest academics.
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Interior of the Peabody THE ROOTS OF the Peabody Essex Museum. Essex Museum date to the 1799 Photo courtesy of Turner Construction founding of the East India Marine Society, an organization of Salem captains and supercargoes who had sailed beyond either the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn. The society’s charter included a provision for the establishment of a “cabinet of natural and artificial curiosities,” which is what we today would call a museum. Society members brought to Salem a diverse collection of objects from the northwest coast of America, Asia, Africa, Oceania, India and elsewhere. By 1825, the society moved into its own building, East India Marine Hall, which today contains the original display cases and some of the very first objects collected. Today, the mission of the Peabody Essex Museum is to celebrate outstanding artistic and cultural creativity by collecting, stewarding and interpreting objects of art and culture in ways that increase knowledge, enrich the spirit, engage the mind and stimulate the senses. Through its exhibitions, programs, publications, media, and related activities, PEM strives to create experiences that transform people’s lives by broadening their perspectives, attitudes, and knowledge of themselves and the wider world.
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SIZING IT UP: SCALE IN NATURE AND ART OCTOBER 10, 2015 – SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 THIS EXHIBITION IN PEM’s Art & Nature Center explores the concept of scale – from the nano-sized to the galactic – challenging our perception of perspective, relative size, and proportion. Featured works include miniatures, sculptures, photography, and installations loaned from regional, national, and international contemporary artists, as well as works from PEM’s collection. Interactives enable audiences to experiment with visual scale and to explore the role scale plays in art and our perception of the world around us. MEGACITY: INDIA’S CULTURE OF THE STREETS AUGUST 1, 2015 – SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 IN THE EARLY 20th century, Indian artists viewed the village as the true locus of India’s identity, distinct from that of the British colonial cities of Calcutta, Bombay, and New Bhupen Khakhar, First Day in New York, 1983. Delhi. By mid-century, Oil on canvas. Peabody Essex Museum, gift of the India had gained Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection. © The Estate of Bhupen Khakhar. independence and its Photo: Walter Silver/PEM cities were replenished with all kinds of people fulfilling their dreams. In the cities, the drive toward modernity coexisted with the enduring presence of the spiritual in unexpected ways. This installation includes paintings from PEM’s Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection. Images of confrontation, hope, fracture, and change traverse shifting grounds rich with contradictions.
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IMPORTING SPLENDOR: LUXURIES FROM CHINA JUNE 13, 2015 – SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 EXPLORE PEM’S SUPERLATIVE Chinese export art collection – the most comprehensive and celebrated collection of its kind – through nearly 30 selected works, including furniture, paintings, and decorative objects. Created by Chinese artists in the 18th and 19th centuries for European and American markets, these works display a mastery of material and form that made them the most coveted luxurious items of their day. STICKWORK: PATRICK DOUGHERTY MAY 14, 2015 – DECEMBER 31, 2016 PATRICK DOUGHERTY BENDS, weaves, and flexes saplings into architectural sculptures that dynamically relate to the landscape and built environment around them. Over the last 25 years, he has created more than 200 works throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Constructed from saplings collected by area volunteers, the natural structure will provide dramatic counterpoint to the highly finished wood-frame Crowninshield-Bentley House that dates to the early 18th century. This is the first time PEM has commissioned an outdoor sculptural installation. DOUBLE HAPPINESS: CELEBRATION IN CHINESE ART APRIL 5, 2014 – SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 COME AND EXPERIENCE the liveliness of a drinking party, the opulence of a royal wedding, and poetic evocation of spring on a delicate dish. With more than 30 highlights from the museum’s wide-ranging Chinese collection spanning
Artists in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, Bowl with Dragons, Phoenixes, Gourds, and Characters for Happiness, late 1880s. Porcelain with transparent glaze and overglaze polychrome enamels and gilding. Gift of the Conger Collection, 1991. Photo: Walter Silver/PEM
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3,000 years, this exhibition celebrates China’s artistic achievements crystallized in seasonal festivals, religious ceremonies, and celebrations. Discover plants and animals, myths and symbols, and decipher the Chinese character for “Double Happiness.” RAVEN’S MANY GIFTS: NATIVE ART OF THE NORTHWEST COAST APRIL 5, 2014 – SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 EXPLORE THE LIVING relationships among humans, animals, ancestors, and supernatural beings through works of Native art from the Pacific Northwest Coast created during the past 200 years. Ceremonial regalia, trade goods, and art sold in galleries today reveal creative expressions of family, heritage, politics, and commerce in a changing world. Raven’s Many Gifts presents artworks that convey broadly shared aesthetic and cultural traditions, while emphasizing the distinctiveness of various indigenous communities and their artists. The themes – Living Stories, Family Connections, and Market Innovations – feature objects from PEM’s renowned collection of Native American art from the Northwest Coast. FREEPORT [NO. 005]: MICHAEL LIN MARCH 22, 2012 – JANUARY 31, 2016 ARTIST MICHAEL LIN began developing a reputation in the late 1990s for painting vast, bold designs on sober architectural settings, interventions that injected a vibrant sense of play. At PEM, Lin spotlights the renowned collection of Asian export art. Lin created a sprawling mural of original armorial and heraldic motifs (elaborate coats of arms) that climbs up the walls of the Mellon Staircase and along the floor of the Export Silver Galleries. To animate the history of trade between China and the West, Lin also created a large-scale installation comprised of hundreds of replicas of Mr. Nobody, one of the first representations of a European gentleman in Chinese porcelain. Photographs that document the creation of the replicas in a factory in China are interspersed among 19th-century gouaches from the PEM collection that depict the historic porcelain production process.
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NATIVE FASHION NOW NOVEMBER 21, 2015 – MARCH 6, 2016 FROM VIBRANT STREET clothing to exquisite haute couture, this exhibition celebrates the visual range, creative expression, and political nuance of Native American fashion. Nearly 100 works spanning the last 50 years explore the vitality of Native fashion designers and artists from pioneering Native style-makers to today’s maverick designers making their mark in today’s world of fashion. Also examined is how non-Native designers adopt and translate traditional Native American design motifs in their own work, including Isaac Mizrahi’s now iconic Totem Pole Dress. ALCHEMY OF THE SOUL: MARIA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS JANUARY 9 – MARCH 20, 2016 ALCHEMY OF THE SOUL: MARIA MAGDALENA CAMPOSPONS presents the most ambitious collaboration between the Afro-Cuban artist and her husband, musician, and composer Neil Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons in Cuba, August 2015. Leonard. Through Photo: Chip Van Dyke large-scale blown glass sculptures, paintings, photographs, and evocative soundscapes, the artist draws on the structural forms found in the abandoned sugar mills and rum factories of her childhood island home. Incorporating the sweet smell of rum, this multi-sensory exhibition creates an intoxicating reconceptualization of the often-brutal history of the Cuban sugar industry, offering a visceral experience that ignites the senses and our emotional awareness of place, memory, identity, and labor.
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ASIA IN AMSTERDAM: THE CULTURE OF LUXURY IN THE GOLDEN AGE FEBRUARY 27 – JUNE 5, 2016 AMSTERDAM IN THE 17th century was a vibrant city with global connections. The largest and most powerful trade and shipping company in the world, the Dutch East India Company (VOC), filled Dutch homes with Asian porcelain, lacquer, sumptuous textiles, diamonds, and spices. Inspired by these novel imports, Dutch potters, textile designers, and jewelers created works of art we now Paulus Moreelse, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1620. Oil on panel. 28 1/8 × 22 5/8 inches perceive as distinctly Dutch. about (71.5 × 57.4 cm). Art Institute of Chicago, Max and Leola Epstein Collection, 1954.292. Artists such as Rembrandt, Photo by Jacques Breuer Willem Kalf, Jan Steen, and Pieter Claesz were also quick to incorporate these luxuries into their paintings. Coorganized by the Peabody Essex Museum and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, this exhibition of 170 superlative Asian and Dutch works of art explores the transformative impact that Asian luxuries had on Dutch art and life in the 17th century, bringing new perspectives on the Dutch Golden Age and its relationship to Asia. RODIN: TRANSFORMING SCULPTURE MAY 14 – SEPTEMBER 5, 2016 WHETHER WORKING IN plaster, marble, or bronze on an intimate or monumental scale, Auguste Rodin captured the emotional and psychological complexities of human beings in ways that few sculptors before or after him have achieved. He also profoundly changed the language of sculpture by playing with accident and emphasizing the act of creating rather than completing
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a work of art. Rodin favored fragmentation and recombination as the principal expression of the significance he attached to change and transformation as the keys to creativity. Featuring sculptures and drawings, this thematic exhibition highlights the drama and experimentation that have established Rodin as one of the greatest sculptors of all time. TICKETS & CONTACT Peabody Essex Museum East India Square 161 Essex Street Salem, MA 01970 (978) 745-9500 www.pem.org
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