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Contents

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Ambassador’s Note

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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 and Haydn Society

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Harvard Art Museums

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Huntington Theatre Company

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Institute of Contemporary Art

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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Museum of Fine Arts/Boston

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Peabody Essex Museum

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Ambassador to the Arts

I am honored to serve as this season’s Ambassador for the Guide for the Arts, and I hope you will continue supporting our rich cultural offerings we have in the city of Boston and beyond.

As the Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University in Harvard Square, I am proud of the great work happening within our diverse neighborhoods and internationally renowned institutions. This stimulating environment inspires my vision for the theater. Making art more central in our lives infuses the richness of our community and allows for more active engagement and civic discourse. Our mission at the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater by continuing to transform the ways in which work is developed, programmed, produced, and contextualized, always including the audience as a partner.

We hope that this season’s offerings from our stages to our galleries, our gardens, and historic sites transform you and inspire you. We encourage you to explore and expand your world.

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American Repertory Theater

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he american repertory theater A scene from the (A.R.T.) is one of the country’s most A.R.T.'s production of "Marie Antoinette." celebrated theaters and the winner of numerous awards, including the Tony Photo Credit: Joan Marcus Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and Elliot Norton and I.R.N.E. Awards. During its 31-year history, the A.R.T. has welcomed many major American and international theater artists, presenting a diverse repertoire that includes premieres of American plays, bold reinterpretations of classical texts, and provocative new music theater productions. The A.R.T. has performed throughout the U.S. and worldwide in 21 cities in 16 countries on four continents.

The A.R.T. is also a training ground for young artists.

The Theater’s artistic staff teaches undergraduate classes in acting, directing, dramatic literature, dramaturgy, voice, and design at Harvard University. In 1987, the A.R.T. founded the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. A two-year, five-semester graduate program that operates in conjunction with the Moscow Art Theater School, the Institute provides world-class professional training in acting, dramaturgy, and voice.

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American Repertory Theater Pippin Loeb Drama Center december 5, 2012–january 29, 2013 Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Book by Roger O. Hirson Directed by Diane Paulus Choreography by Gypsy Snider of Les 7 Doigts de la Main Original Bob Fosse choreography re-created by Chet Walker a bold new staging of the dark and existential musical you thought you knew. Pippin, on a death-defying journey to find his “corner of the sky,” must choose between a life that’s ordinary or a flash of singular glory.

Hansel and Gretel Loeb Drama Center december 15, 2012–january 6, 2013 in the tradition of last season’s sold-out holiday hit The Snow Queen, the A.R.T. brings another classic children’s story to life—this time, the Brothers Grimm tale of a brother, a sister, a breadcrumb trail, and a suspicious gingerbread house in the woods. Graduate acting students from the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training star in this energetic and interactive re-telling, sure to be a sweet holiday treat for the whole family.

The Glass Menagerie Loeb Drama Center february 2 – march 3, 2013 Written by Tennessee Williams Directed by John Tiffany Sound design by Clive Goodwin while amanda wingfield desperately struggles to provide her fragile daughter with at least one “gentleman caller,” her son, Tom, dreams of escaping from his job at a warehouse and his oppressive life at home. An exquisite family drama filtered through Tom’s memory, The Glass Menagerie is staged by John Tiffany, the acclaimed director of the international sensation Black Watch, and the Broadway musical Once.

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American Repertory Theater Beowulf OBERON Theater april 16 – may 5, 2013 Written by Jason Craig Music by Dave Malloy Directed by Rob Hipskind and Mallory Catlett oberon becomes a 21st century mead hall in this passionate retelling of the Old English epic poem. Watch as Beowulf sings, struts, and slashes his way through a thousand years of literary scholarship, revealing the raw and rowdy SongPlay within.

Featuring original music that combines Weillian cabaret, ’40s jazz harmony, punk, electronic, and Romantic Lieder composed by Dave Malloy from last season’s sold-out Three Pianos.

Contact Loeb Drama Center 64 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02138 www.americanrepertorytheater.org OBERON Theater 2 Arrow Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets (615) 547-8300

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Boston Ballet

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ince 1963, boston ballet has George Balanchine’s been one of the leading dance Serenade companies in the world on stage, in Photo Credit: the studio, and in the community. Under ©The Balanchine Trust. By Gene Schiavone the leadership of Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen and Executive Director Barry Hughson, the Company maintains an internationally acclaimed repertoire and the largest ballet school in North America, Boston Ballet School.

Boston Ballet maintains a repertoire of classical, neoclassical, and contemporary works, ranging from fulllength story ballets to new works by some of today’s finest choreographers. Boston Ballet’s second company, Boston Ballet II, is comprised of dancers who gain experience by performing with the Company and independently, presenting special programs to audiences throughout the Northeast.

All performances are held at The Boston Opera House.

The Nutcracker—World Premier november 23–december 30, 2012 Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography by Mikko Nissinen

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Boston Ballet new england’s most popular winter classic, Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker, presented by State Street Corporation, returns to the stage completely re-imagined with all new sets and costumes designed by award-winning designer Robert Perdziola. The new production will encompass the beauty and magic of the traditional Nutcracker story with revised scenes and choreography by Nissinen.

All Kylían march 7–17, 2013 Wings of Wax Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Phillip Glass Choreography by Jiří Kylián Tar and Feathers Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Choreography by Jiří Kylián Symphony of Psalms Music by Igor Stravinsky Choreography by Jiří Kylián an all-kylián bill begins the 2013 spring season performances.

The program will include Jiří Kylián’s Wings of Wax, Tar and Feathers, and Symphony of Psalms, ballets never before danced by a U.S. company. Wings of Wax, premiered in 1997 at the Lucent Dance Theatre, is set to the music of J.S. Bach and Phillip Glass. The piece features a large-scale set design of a tree suspended upside down above the dancers on stage. Wings of Wax is a work for eight dancers costumed in black, creating a visual effect of bodies disappearing and reappearing on the darkly-lit stage. The title of the piece references the Greek legend of Icarus. Kylían’s Tar and Feathers continues the program. This 2006 work is set to music by Mozart and features a grand piano on stage, elevated on 10-foothigh tall, thin legs. The work features a layered soundscape, which includes the on-stage pianist’s improvisation and the recitation of Samuel Beckett’s poem, What is the word. Lighting and fragmented movement add to the surreal world created on stage. Symphony of Psalms completes the program. This work for 16 dancers is set

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Boston Ballet to a choral symphony of Igor Stravinsky. Symphony of Psalms was created in 1978 and is considered an iconic Kylían work. The formations and patterns of the dancers, combined with the chanting music, evoke a spiritual feeling. Rich Persian tapestries, high-backed chairs, and powerful lighting set the scene for this ensemble work.

The Sleeping Beauty march 22–april 7, 2013 Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography by Marius Petipa Additional Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton Production by Ninette de Valois (after Nicholas Sergeyev’s 1939 production) marius petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty, with sets and costumes by David Walker that originated with The Royal Ballet, has become one of Boston Ballet’s trademark works. When it was last presented in 2009 The New York Times raved, “the superb achievement of the company’s artistic director Mikko Nissinen was to reunite [the costumes and sets] with the de Valois production. It is the Bostonians who have taken the trouble to dance the unison ensembles with painstaking precision. The effect is nothing but good.” The Sleeping Beauty is derived from the “Mother Goose” tale

by Charles Perrault. The story has a rich history as a ballet. Nicholas Sergeyev, an assistant to Petipa, first brought the ballet to the West.

He staged it for the first time in 1921 for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, mounted the ballet again in 1939 for Ninette de Valois at The Royal Ballet, and later presented the ballet at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in 1946. With de Valois’ oversight, and additional choreography by both she and Frederick Ashton, the production became beloved and began to travel receiving great acclaim.

Spring Program may 2–12, 2013 Serenade Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography by George Balanchine

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Boston Ballet Chroma Choreography by Wayne McGregor Music by Joby Talbot Symphony in C Music by Georges Bizet Choreography by George Balanchine the spring program takes the stage May 2–12 with Wayne McGregor’s Chroma book-ended by George Balanchine’s Serenade and Symphony in C. McGregor is the first-ever contemporary resident choreographer for The Royal Ballet. Chroma, premiered in 2006, is a minimalist, contemporary work. McGregor has described it as showcasing “the architecture of the body.” His choreography seems to push and pull the dancers to new lengths and positions.

The music, composed by Joby Talbot, is three arranged songs by Jack White of The White Stripes.

Two works by George Balanchine complete the program.

Balanchine’s Serenade is considered one of his most iconic works.

It was premiered in 1934 by students of the School of American Ballet at a private estate in New York. It was the first original ballet Balanchine created in America. The work features 26 dancers costumed in shades of blue before a background of the same color, creating a soft and feminine visual. Boston Ballet has presented this work in Boston and on an international tour in Spain to great acclaim.

Balanchine’s Symphony in C premiered in 1947. The work is set to Bizet’s Symphony in C Major, which he composed at the age of 17.

The music, both lively and accessible, complements the elegance, speed, and personality of this work. Symphony in C is comprised of four movements culminating in a rousing grand finale where all 52 dancers appear onstage.

Coppélia may 16–26, 2013 Music by Léo Delibes Choreography by George Balanchine the light-hearted comedy of George Balanchine’s Coppélia takes the stage May 16–26. Based upon the book by Charles 26

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Boston Ballet Nuitter, after “Der Sandmann” by E.T.A. Hoffman, this sentimental tale revolves around the life-size dancing doll created by Doctor Coppélius, who becomes the source of love troubles for a village swain. The ballet, first choreographed

by Arthur St. Léon, was restaged by Marius Petipa and again by Lev Ivanov and Enrico Cecchetti.

Balanchine maintained elements from these versions in Acts I and II, creating entirely new choreography for Act III. Misa Kuranaga and Boston Ballet premiered the work in Boyko Dossev in George Balanchine’s Coppelia 2009, joining Geneva Ballet, New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Photo Credit: and San Francisco Ballet as one of only ©The Balanchine Trust. By Gene Schiavone five companies in the world that have performed this work. Léo Delibes’ score, called by The New York Times “a classic of melody, orchestration, rhythm, and storytelling,” is at once lively and accessible. With more than 20 children from Boston Ballet School, Coppélia remains a jubilant and melodic triumph.

Contact Boston Ballet 19 Clarendon Street Boston, MA 02116 www.bostonballet.org Tickets (617) 695-6950

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Boston Lyric Opera

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oston lyric opera (blo) is new Dinyar Vania (Lt. B. England’s largest opera company.

F. Pinkerton), David Cushing (The Bonze) and Founded in 1976, BLO is recognized cast of Madama Butterfly. for its artistically excellent productions of a Photo Credit: Eric Antoniou diverse repertoire that entertain and inspire audiences and feature emerging operatic talent. BLO produces four productions each season: three at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre in Boston and the annual Opera Annex production in a found space. BLO’s programs are funded, in part, by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The mission of Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is to produce artistically excellent productions of a diverse repertoire that entertain and inspire audiences; to feature emerging operatic talent; and to engage and educate the community of all ages about opera. By achieving its mission, BLO ensures the future of opera in Boston and New England for generations to come.

Clemency New Opera Annex Production Artists for Humanity EpiCenter, 100 West 2nd Street, Boston Co-commissioned by BLO, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the Scottish Opera; and Britten Sinfonia Sung in English

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Boston Lyric Opera february 6, 7, 9, and 10, 2013 Music by James MacMillan Libretto by Michael Symmons Roberts Preceded by Hagar’s Lament Sung in English february 6, 7, 9, and 10, 2013 Music by Franz Schubert Text by Clemens August Schücking

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james macmillan’s Clemency, a BLO co-commission, receives its North American premiere as the Company’s 2013 Opera Annex production. The libretto, by poet Michael Symmons Roberts, is drawn from the book of Genesis.

Abraham and Sarah are childless and nearing the end of their lives.

They are approached by three travelers who share the unexpected and miraculous news that Sarah will have a child in old age. The mood darkens as it becomes clear that the travelers are on a mission of vengeance upon the neighboring towns, and Abraham pleads clemency for their inhabitants. Clemency will be preceded by a performance of Franz Schubert’s Hagar’s Lament. The song, its lyrics drawn from a moving poem by Clemens August Schücking, is the very first written by the prolific composer, and centers on Abraham’s “other woman,” who poignantly sings of her sadness and anger after being abandoned in the desert with her dying son.

The pairing of the two works makes Abraham the center point for the evening’s dramatic interpretation, creating a rich musical and theatrical experience. David Angus will orchestrate the conclusion of Hagar’s Lament, blending it musically and dramatically with the beginning of Clemency and creating one continuous evening of music.

Così Fan Tutte Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre Sung in English with projected titles march 15, 17, 20, 22, and 24, 2013 Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte 30

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Boston Lyric Opera with così fan tutte, Mozart, master of the ambiguities of love, explores the battle between passion and reason through the lens of a playful and, at times, deeply serious farce. Set on a Neapolitan beach under the looming threat of Mount Vesuvius, two young men gamble that their fiancées will remain faithful, even under the utmost pressure. Così Fan Tutte is light, airy, ravishing, and yet, in the end, moving and serious—proof that love is, indeed, a dangerous game.

The Flying Dutchman Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre Sung in German with projected English translation april 26, 28, may 1, 3, and 5, 2013 Music and Libretto by Richard Wagner, after an episode in Heine’s Memoiren des von Schnabelewopski the flying dutchman, Wagner’s evocative exploration of love as redemption and escape, concludes the 2012/2013 Season. In honor of the composer’s bicentennial year, the Company has selected the original 1841 edition of Dutchman as the musical foundation for its new production. A sea captain doomed by a curse to an existence of eternal wandering, a yearning heroine desperate to escape her restricting world—set against the uncontrolled violence of the sea. Their passionate encounter is a story of compelling tension and musical intensity.

Contact Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre 265 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02216 www.blo.org Tickets (617) 542-6772

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Boston Philharmonic

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he boston philharmonic Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, founded by Benjamin performs at NEC's Jordan Hall.

Zander in 1979, features amateur, student, and professional musicians Photo Credit: J. Filiault performing 12 classical music concerts each season. One of Boston’s premier orchestras, the Boston Philharmonic is not your average musical ensemble; on the contrary, the Boston Philharmonic follows a vision of “passionate music making without boundaries.” To us, this means presenting top-notch music in a manner that both music aficionados and the casual listener can enjoy.

One way we achieve this is through our innovative pre-concert talks with the conductor, Benjamin Zander. Zander has a unique approach to explaining classical music, and his intense passion for the art form attracts hundreds of attendees for each talk.

As a result, our audience describes the Boston Philharmonic as “passionate,” “inspiring,” “unique,” and—perhaps our favorite descriptor—“un-stuffy.”

Mahler Sanders Theater february 21, 2013, 7:30 p.m.

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Mahler Symphony No. 6

Maestro Benjamin Zander Photo Credit: J. Filiault

the mahler sixth has occupied a very prominent place in the musical life of Ben Zander and in the history of the Boston Philharmonic. The commercial recording, made many years ago, was one of the artistic high-water marks for the orchestra. It was lavishly praised in the international press at the time and, although it has been unavailable for the past few years, it is still often singled out by critics as their favorite recording of the symphony.

The Sixth is the darkest of the Mahler symphonies. Unnecessarily nicknamed by the composer “The Tragic”—could anyone possibly not notice?—it faces the grimmest realities of life and death unflinchingly. And it does so with infinite and surprising variety.

In the first movement there is the ecstasy of the music associated with his beloved wife Alma, the evocation of lonely and serene Alpine landscapes, the brutal tramping of inexorable marches.

The second movement brings grim, parodistic elements, and the third—music of heartbreaking beauty—has a bittersweet, nostalgic evocativeness. The relentless finale, from its opening eerie and unsettling harmonies, traces the struggles and apparent victories of the “Hero”—Mahler or Everyman, it can be read either way—and his annihilation by the three hammer blows of fate, which are quite possibly the most terrifying extra-musical noise ever composed into a symphony.

It is a long time since the BPO has performed the Mahler Sixth, and its return is long overdue. This concert is sure to create huge excitement in Boston’s musical community.

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Boston Philharmonic Beethoven Symphony Hall april 19, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 the wide world boasts many exalted peaks, but there is only one Everest. So, too, in music, there are symphonies of great length and grandeur, works of true dramatic and philosophical weight (particularly the symphonies of Mahler), but there is only one Ninth. It remains, after nearly 200 years of symphonic creativity by musical giants like Schumann, Brahms, Shostakovich and, yes, Mahler, The Ninth. It remains the ultimate challenge for an orchestral conductor, as virtually any conductor will attest, and it remains music’s ultimate affirmation of the indomitable human spirit. No other work delivers this particular, powerful message in music of the richest complexity that is still understandable by everyone, everywhere.

Like the Mahler Sixth, the Beethoven Ninth became an acclaimed recording by the BPO; it was, in fact, the first commercial recording the orchestra ever made, recorded in 1990. Astonishingly, we have not returned to this seminal work for 22 years. So to end this season, which in some ways is a retrospective of the BPO’s most acclaimed past achievements, we move to Symphony Hall for a gala performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The marvelous soloists are Michelle Johnson, Sarah Heltzel, Yeghishe Manucharyan, and Sam McElroy.

Contact Boston Philharmonic Jordan Hall 295 Huntington Avenue Suite 10 Boston, MA 02115 www.bostonphil.org Tickets (617) 236-0999

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Boston Symphony Orchestra

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ow in its 131st season, the Ludovic Morlot and the Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra on tour at Walt Disney has continued to uphold the Hall, LA. vision of its founder, the businessman, Photo Credit: Craig T. Mathew philanthropist, Civil War veteran, and amateur musician Henry Lee Higginson, for well over a century. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, South America, and China; in addition, it reaches audiences numbering in the millions through its performances on radio, television, and recordings. It plays an active role in commissioning new works from today’s most important composers; its summer season at Tanglewood is regarded as one of the world’s most important music festivals; it helps develop the audience of the future through BSO Youth Concerts and through a variety of outreach programs involving the entire Boston community; and, during the Tanglewood season, it sponsors the Tanglewood Music Center, one of the world’s most important training grounds for young composers, Conductors, instrumentalists, and vocalists.

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Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Laureate Bernard Haitink, Conductor Emeritus Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, MacMillan, and Roussel november 29, 2012, 8:00 p.m. november 30, 2012, 1:30 p.m. december 1, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

Stéphane Denève, Conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano Berlioz Overture to Les Francs-juges Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian MacMillan Three Interludes from The Sacrifice Roussel Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2 Dutilleux, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and Ravel january 10, 2013, 8:00 p.m. january 11, 2013, 1:30pm january 12 and 15, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, Conductor Lisa Batiashvili, Violin Dutilleux Métaboles for Orchestra Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements Ravel La Valse Verdi’s Requiem january 17, 18, and 19, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

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Hindemith, Liszt, and Prokofiev january 24, 2013, 8:00 p.m. january 25, 2013, 1:30 p.m. january 26, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Charles Dutoit, Conductor Stephen Hough, Piano Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 Prokofiev Suite from Romeo and Juliet

Assistant Principal Trumpet Thomas Siders and BSO Trumpet player Michael Martin.

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Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky january 31, 2013, 8:00 p.m. february 1, 2013, 1:30 p.m. february 2 and 5, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Andris Nelsons, Conductor Baiba Skride, Violin Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Brahms, Sibelius, and Beethoven february 7, 2013, 8:00 p.m. february 8, 2013, 1:30 p.m. february 9 and 12, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra Renaud Capuçon, Violin Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn Sibelius Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Mozart and Bruckner february 14, 2013, 8:00 p.m. february 15, 2013, 1:30 p.m. february 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Christoph von Dohnányi, Conductor Radu Lupu, Piano Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488 Bruckner Symphony No. 4, Romantic Stravinsky and Haydn february 21, 2013, 8:00 p.m. february 22, 2013, 1:30 p.m. february 23 and 26, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, Conductor Alexandra Coku, Soprano Karen Cargill, Mezzo-soprano Matthew Polenzani, Tenor Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Bass Stravinsky Pulcinella (complete) Haydn Mass in Time of War Hindemith, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók february 28, march 1 and 2, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor Lang Lang, Piano Hindemith Konzertmusik for Strings and Brass Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Mozart, Thomas, and Saint-Saëns march 14, 2013, 8:00 p.m. march 15, 2013, 1:30 p.m. march 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra Christoph Eschenbach, Conductor Lynn Harrell, Cello Olivier Latry, Organ Mozart Symphony No. 41, Jupiter Thomas Cello Concerto No. 3 (world premiere; BSO commission) Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3, Organ All Wagner march 21, 2013, 8:00 p.m. march 22, 2013, 1:30 p.m. march 23 and 26, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Daniele Gatti, Conductor Michelle DeYoung, Mezzo-soprano All-Wagner Program Prelude to Lohengrin; Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde; Orchestral excerpts from Götterdämmerung; Siegfried Idyll; Orchestral and vocal excerpts from Parsifal Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 march 28, 29, and 30, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Daniele Gatti, Conductor Anne Sofie von Otter, Mezzo-soprano Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus John Oliver, Conductor Boys of PALS Children’s Chorus Andy Icochea Icochea, Conductor Mahler Symphony No. 3 Hindemith, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók april 2, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Conductor Garrick Ohlsson, Piano Hindemith Konzertmusik for Strings and Brass Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Miaskovsky, Knussen, and Mussorgsky april 12, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

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Ludovic Morlot and Oliver Knussen, Conductor the Boston Symphony Orchestra on tour at Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Walt Disney Hall, LA. Claire Booth, Soprano Photo Credit: Miaskovsky Symphony No. 10 Craig T. Mathew Knussen Violin Concerto Knussen Whitman Settings, for soprano and orchestra Mussorgsky arr. Stokowski Pictures at an Exhibition Britten, Mozart, Dvořák, and Tippett april 18, 2013, 8:00 p.m. april 19, 2013, 1:30 p.m. april 20 and 23, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Britten Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury Mozart Serenade No. 11 in E-flat for winds, K.375 Dvořák Serenade for Strings Tippett Praeludium, for brass, bells, and percussion Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

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Boston Symphony Orchestra Schubert and Mahler april 25, 26, 27, and 30, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Bernard Haitink, Conductor Camilla Tilling, Soprano Schubert Symphony No. 5 Mahler Symphony No. 4 Brahms and Schubert may 2, 2013, 8:00 p.m. may 3, 2013, 1:30 p.m. may 4, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Bernard Haitink, Conductor Nikolaj Znaider, Violin Brahms Violin Concerto Schubert Symphony in C, The Great Contact Boston Symphony Orchestra Symphony Hall 301 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02115 www.bso.org Tickets (888) 266-1200

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stablished in 1950, decordova Jessica Stockholder, 2008, Sculpture Park and Museum Framed oil painting from TJ Maxx, green plastic, brown is the largest park of its kind in plastic, bamboo bead mat, New England, encompassing 35 acres, yarn, cloth, copper, plastic bits, thread, lexal caulk, oil 20 miles northwest of Boston. In 2009, and acrylic paint, hardware, deCordova changed its name from 29 x 17 x 8 inches deCordova Museum and Sculpture Photo Courtesy: Park to deCordova Sculpture Park and Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz 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.

In March of 2010, deCordova acquired its first work by an international sculptor and continues to bolster the curatorial program by exhibiting high-quality, accessible art of nationally and internationally recognized artists indoors and out.

To maintain its commitment to New England artists and emphasize the quality and vitality of the art created in this region, deCordova launched the deCordova Biennial in 2010 and the PLATFORM series in 2009.

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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now may 26, 2012–april 21, 2013 abstract photography continues to be a catchall genre for the blending of media and disciplines, and a fertile arena in which artists can test photography itself. It challenges the popular view of photography as an objective record of reality and calls attention to the constructed nature of the photographic image.

Today, anyone who has a cell phone can take and send digital images instantaneously. In response to this “snapsho”’ culture, many artists are taking up photography’s underlying properties to consciously construct an image of reality. Second nature looks at this embrace of the highly fabricated image as a return to an earlier time in photography’s history—and will pair the scientific and expressionistic experimentation of photography in the first half of the 20th century with current explorations of the medium.

This exhibition highlights deCordova’s photography collection, presenting work by some of the field’s most prolific pioneers and innovators: György Kepes, Harold Edgerton, and Aaron Siskind.

By intermixing photographs from deCordova’s collection with works by contemporary artists including: David Akiba, Lucas Blalock, Mel Bochner, Stan Brakhage, Cree Bruins, Caleb Charland, Talia Chetrit, Matthew Gamber, Meggan Gould, Bryan Graf, Sharon Harper, Greg J. Hayes, Julia Hechtman, Corin Hewitt, Barbara Kasten, Alejandra Laviada, Isaac Layman, Daniel Lefcourt, Aspen Mays, Elizabeth McAlpine, Yamini Nayar, Arthur Ou, Anthony Pearson, Daniel Phillips, Luther Price, Eileen Quinlan, Mariah Robertson, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Luke Stettner, Sara VanDerBeek, and Jennifer West, second nature focuses on the continual probing and questioning of the medium and conventions of picture-making that complicate our understanding of photography. The artists in second nature grow the ever expanding field by revisiting themes of hyperrealism, constructivism, and the materiality of time through light.

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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in line with the poetic than the didactic. Peterman is a socially motivated artist who has embraced a wide variety of formal and situational strategies to critically address the exhaustion of resources in our society. He uses a range of materials including recycled plastic and metals, as well as organic and post-consumer waste in his sculptures, installations, and public art projects. For his project at deCordova, Peterman will site his sculpture, Love Podium in the Museum Entrance Plaza as a functional platform for spoken performances. As part of a slate of programming proposed by our museum audience, speakers will activate the Love Podium by simultaneously reading texts that represent opposing views on a single topic. Installed just before the 2012 Presidential election, the podium presents and problematizes this divisive age of polarization, while also offering a platform for engaged citizenry.

Paint Things january 20–april 21, 2013 paint things navigates the recent direction of contemporary artists to expand painting beyond the stretcher into sculptural forms. This group exhibition focuses on the growing spatial and material freedom in painting as it merges with installation and sculpture. It invites viewers to collectively re-examine the ageold practice of painting in a new light and consider the limitless possibilities for the future of the medium and its physical context.

Its expansion and spatial investigations by exhibiting artists asks us to think about painting as it relates to physical, social, political, and emotional space.

Featured artists include Katie Bell, Sarah Braman, Sarah Cain, Alex Da Corte, Cheryl Donegan, Franklin Evans, Kate Gilmore, Alex Hubbard, James Hyde, Wilson Lawrence, Analia Saban, Jessica Stockholder, Mika Tajima, and Summer Wheat.

Platform 11: Among From With Andrew Witkin january 20–april 21, 2013 boston-based artist Andrew Witkin works with furniture, text, and various common objects to underscore the poetic in everyday life. Witkin collects, arranges, and organizes things—skills pulled directly from his day job as a gallery director and curator—to www.guideforthearts.com

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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum further blur the boundaries between art and life, all the while underscoring the arbitrariness of any attempt to categorize the world.

For PLATFORM 11, Witkin will create an installation in response to deCordova’s fourth-floor Foster Galleries—a small cluster of spaces that were once part of the summer home of the Museum’s namesake and founder Julian de Cordova.

Character Study march 2013–spring 2014 recent acquisition highlights from the Permanent Collection.

Organized by Koch Curatorial Fellow Mary Tinti.

Tony Feher may 26–september 16, 2013 this is the 20-year retrospective of Tony Feher, organized by the Blaffer Museum in Houston. Feher is an American sculptor whose work catapults the everyday into the poetic. He transforms mundane materials that he collects, like plastic bags, bottles, jars, insulation, pennies, and marbles into beautiful and delicate works.

Rather than adding more objects to the world, he makes art from what already exists. He stacks, dangles, unfolds, and aligns his materials to form sculptures of fluid lines, thoughtful rhythms, and bursts of color and light that enable the viewer to observe and appreciate the beauty in the ordinary objects that surround them.

His proud embrace of fragility, transience and emotion, along with his preference for non-precious found objects, has been highly influential for a younger generation of artists.

Workout may 26–september 16, 2013 this will be the first group exhibition in the Sculpture Park. For Workout, LA-based artist Fritz Haeg, the San Francisco-based collaborative Futurefarmers, and local artist Andi Sutton have been invited to consider the functions of our site as park and exhibition space, and make subtle interventions into our systems and operations. In Haeg’s project Living Lots, he will reclaim parking 48

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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum spots for a series of rotating exhibitions that will include a garden, chicken coop, compost pile, quilting circle, bicycle repair shop, or produce stand. Sutton has proposed to create a garden for the future, intervening in our “green landscape,” and the Futurefarmers plan to build a temporary social playground, using park furniture to foster social interaction and collaboration with the general public.

Platform 12: Aaron Stephan may 26–september 16, 2013 maine-based sculptor Aaron Stephan will recreate iconic 20th century sculptures in the vernacular of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum on the 6th floor rooftop and on the Sculpture Park Terrace. Stephan’s appropriation of works by Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, and Vladimir Tatlin, stems from his interest in the social and philosophical ideals that fed the stylistic changes of sculpture over the 20th century, ranging from Russian Constructivism to American Minimalism to Land Art. The reworking and recontextualization of these modern masterpieces in the everyday forms of museum railings and trash barrels corrupt the lofty ideals associated with these works and invite new interpretation of these forms.

The 2013 deCordova Biennial october 2013–april 20, 2014 organized by Assistant Curator Lexi Lee Sullivan.

Contact deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum 51 Sandy Pond Road Lincoln, MA 01773 www.decordova.org Tickets (617) 259-8355

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ounded in boston in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Handel and Haydn Society (H&H) Society Period Instrument Orchestra is considered America’s oldest and Chorus. continuously performing arts organization Photo Credit:Stu Rosner and will celebrate 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’ leadership, H&H’s mission is to perform Baroque and Classical music at the highest levels of artistic excellence and to share that music with as large and diverse an audience as possible.

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Handel Messiah Symphony Hall november 30– december 2, 2012 Harry Christophers, Conductor Karina Gauvin, Soprano Daniel Taylor, Countertenor James Gilchrist, Tenor

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Handel and Haydn Society Sumner Thompson, Bass Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus Handel Messiah a tradition for 159 years—make it yours! Harry Christophers conducts the Period Instrument Orchestra, Chorus, and internationally acclaimed soloists in Handel’s dramatic masterwork.

Don’t miss Canadian superstars soprano Karina Gauvin and countertenor Daniel Taylor, British tenor extraordinaire James Gilchrist, and Boston’s own premier baritone Sumner Thompson in this season’s unique rendition of this Boston tradition. No holiday season is complete without Handel’s stunning oratorio.

Bach Christmas Oratorio NEC’s Jordan Hall december 13 and 16, 2012 John Finney, Conductor Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus Bach Cantatas I, II, and VI from Christmas Oratorio embrace the holidays with H&H’s annual Bach Christmas celebration, featuring three cantatas from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Audience favorite John Finney, Associate Conductor and Chorusmaster, leads the Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus in a moving rendition of this holiday treasure.

Purcell The Indian Queen NEC’s Jordan Hall january 25, 2013 Sanders Theatre january 27, 2013 Harry Christophers, Conductor Jonathan Best, Baritone Zachary Wilder, Tenor Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus Purcell “The scene of the drunken poet” from The Fairy Queen Daniel Purcell “The Masque of Hymen” from The Indian Queen Purcell “The Frost Scene” from King Arthur Purcell The Indian Queen (Music for Acts I–V)

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Handel and Haydn Society henry purcell’s last major work, The Indian Queen, receives special treatment in this compelling interpretation by Harry Christophers and the Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus.

Last performed by H&H in 1995, this semi-opera surrounds Queen Zempoalla of Mexico and focuses on her resistance against Montezuma’s invading Peruvian army. Adapted from John Dryden and Sir Robert Howard’s 1664 play, the opera was completed by Henry’s brother Daniel after his death.

Haydn in Paris Symphony Hall february 22 and 24, 2013 Harry Christophers, Conductor Aisslinn Nosky, Violin Period Instrument Orchestra Haydn Symphony No. 6, Le matin Haydn Violin Concerto No. 4 Haydn Overture to L’isola disabitata Haydn Symphony No. 82, The Bear under harry christophers’ expert hands, Haydn comes to life in a program that showcases one of his Paris Symphonies, The Bear, a festive and jubilant work commissioned by a Parisian orchestra in the 1780s. H&H’s fiery and expressive Concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky returns to the spotlight after the smashing success of her Vivaldi The Four Seasons performances in 2012.

Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Symphony Hall march 15 and 17, 2013 Richard Egarr, Conductor Eric Hoeprich, Clarinet Period Instrument Orchestra Mozart Masonic Funeral Music Mozart Clarinet Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 7 after conducting h&h in sold-out performances of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in 2011, Richard Egarr takes Symphony Hall by

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Handel and Haydn Society storm with Beethoven’s masterful Symphony No. 7. Renowned as one of the finest period clarinetists in the world, H&H principal Eric Hoeprich brings Mozart’s playful clarinet concerto to life. Egarr and Hoeprich will take your breath away with their virtuosic and powerful interpretations of these great compositions.

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Vivaldi Virtuosi NEC’s Jordan Hall april 5 and 7, 2013 Ian Watson, Director and Harpsichord Period Instrument Orchestra Vivaldi Sinfonia, Il coro delle Muse Locatelli Introduzione in D Major, Op. 4, No. 5 Avison Concerto Grosso No. 6 in D Major after Scarlatti Geminiani Concerto grosso detto La follia Vivaldi Concerto for violin, cello and organ Torelli Sinfonia for two violins and cello Durante Concerto a cinque in A Major Vivaldi Concerto in B Minor for four violins harpsichordist ian watson returns to the front of the stage to lead a dynamic program of Vivaldi and other Baroque luminaries.

Discover the virtuosity of H&H’s principal players in a breathtaking chamber concert of 18th century music from Italian masters both at home and abroad.

Handel Jephtha Symphony Hall may 3 and 5, 2013 Harry Christophers, Conductor Robert Murray, Tenor (Jephtha) Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mezzo-soprano (Storgè) Joélle Harvey, Soprano (Iphis)

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William Purefoy, Countertenor (Hamor) Woodrow Bynum, Bass (Zebul) Teresa Wakim, Soprano (Angel) Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus Handel Jephtha considered one of the finest Handelians in the world, Harry Christophers brings Jephtha to Symphony Hall audiences for the first time since its U.S. premiere by the Handel and Haydn Society in 1867. The Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus bring a legend to life: the oratorio tells the story of Jephtha, a commander for the Israelites against the Ammonites, and his daughter Iphis, who is betrothed to one of Jephtha’s soldiers, Hamor. With a stellar cast, Christophers will transform this theatrical story of passions and redemptions, and showcase the transformative powers of Handel’s music.

Contact Handel and Haydn Society 300 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02115 www.handelandhaydn.org Tickets (617) 266-3605

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he harvard art museums, Harvard Art Museums/ among the world’s leading art Arthur M. Sackler Museum institutions, comprise three museums (Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Photo Credit: Harvard Art Museums Arthur M. Sackler) and four research centers (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis). The Harvard Art Museums are distinguished by the range and depth of their collections, their groundbreaking exhibitions, and the original research of their staff. The collections include approximately 250,000 objects in all media, ranging in date from antiquity to the present and originating in Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Integral to Harvard University and the wider community, the art museums and research centers serve as resources for students, scholars, and other visitors. For more than a century they have been the nation’s premier training ground for museum professionals and are renowned for their seminal role in developing the discipline of art history in this country.

In June 2008 the building at 32 Quincy Street, formerly the home of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums, closed for a major renovation. During this renovation, the Sackler Museum at 485

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Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (detail), 1998, with 2007 additions. Print series; color woodcut with handcoloring.

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Broadway remains open and has been reinstalled with some of the finest works representing the collections of all three museums. When complete, the renovated historic building on Quincy Street will unite the three museums in a single stateof-the-art facility designed by architect Renzo Piano.

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Recent Acquisitions, Part III: Kerry James Marshall october 9–december 29, 2012 kerry james marshall is best known for his large-scale narrative paintings depicting the historically and socially potent struggles of African Americans during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

This installation features a 2007 acquisition, Marshall’s monumental 12-panel woodcut print Untitled (1998/2007), which, in its portrayal of domestic activity, references the art historical tradition of 17th century genre scenes. Yet in depicting six African American men chatting quietly over food and coffee, the artist brings attention to society’s lingering and embedded racism, particularly as evidenced in its image culture, by defying expectations of what an assembled group of black figures might signify in viewers’ minds.

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Harvard Art Museums In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art january 31–june 1, 2013 this special exhibition showcases the more than 150 works that make up the Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art. Ranging in date from the beginning of the first millennium BCE to the midtwentieth century, the largely unpublished and little-known collection includes important objects from the Persian cultural sphere, such as luxury glazed ceramics of the early Islamic era and illustrated manuscripts of medieval epic poems, among them the Shahnama and the Khamsa. The accompanying catalogue, published by the Harvard Art Museums and distributed by Yale University Press, offers illustrated entries and nine essays written from a range of scholarly perspectives, including conservation science.

Bowl inscribed with sayings of the Prophet Muhammad and ʿAli ibn Abi Talib, Uzbekistan, Samarkand, Samanid period, 10th century.

Reddish earthenware covered in white slip and painted with black (manganese and iron) and red (iron) under clear lead glaze. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art, 2002.50.88.

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Contact Harvard Art Museums 485 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02138 www.harvardartmuseums.org Tickets (617) 495-9400

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Huntington Theatre Company

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ince its founding in 1982, the Avenue of the Arts / Huntington Theatre Company has BU Theatre developed into Boston’s leading Photo Credit: Paul Marotta theatre company. Bringing together superb local and national talent, the Huntington produces a mix of groundbreaking new works and classics made current. Led by Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso, the Huntington creates award-winning productions, runs nationally renowned programs in education and new play development, and serves the local theatre community through its operation of the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. The Huntington is in residence at Boston University.

Continuing its 30-year tradition, the Huntington will present world-class productions of new works and classics made current that are created by the best local and national talent. The varied lineup of productions include a gripping adaptation of a great American novel, an outrageous world premiere by one of Boston’s most fascinating playwrights, an acclaimed Broadway hit that tells a local story, a timeless family classic, the American premiere of an intriguing political drama, an innovative and intriguing drama, a biting new comedy, and the previously-announced visionary production of an American classic.

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“We have assembled an incredible team of artists for next season,” says Huntington Theatre Company Artistic Director Peter DuBois.

“Throughout the year, we will feature radically different approaches to adaptation, fresh investigations of classics by world-class directors, and important plays that spring from our own backyard.

In combination, the plays will create dynamic collisions of ideas, stories, and perspectives.” The 2012–2013 season will include four plays at the Boston University Theatre on the Avenue of the Arts, three plays in the Wimberly Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, and one play in the Roberts Studio Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Invisible Man Avenue of the Arts/BU Theatre january 4–february 3, 2013 “i am an invisible man.” An idealistic young African-American man searches for identity and his place in the world in this epic journey through 1930s America. Ralph Ellison’s landmark American novel about race, power, freedom, and liberty comes to life in this gripping theatrical adaptation by Academy Award nominee Oren Jacoby and directed by Christopher McElroen (Classical Theatre of Harlem founding artistic director). Chicago Tribune calls Invisible Man, “A remarkable, must-see, dramatic achievement!” Co-produced with the Studio Theatre (Washington, DC). “This blazingly theatrical adaptation of one of the most important books of the 20th century confronts us with a blistering perspective on race in America,” says DuBois.

A Raisin in the Sun Avenue of the Arts/BU Theatre march 8–april 7, 2013 in a crowded apartment in Chicago’s South Side, each member of a struggling African-American family yearns for a different version of a better life. An impending and sizeable insurance payment could be the key. Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking 1959 classic drama is an inspiring and fiercely moving portrait of people whose

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Huntington Theatre Company dreams are constantly deferred. The New York Times calls it, “A play that changed American theatre forever.” Liesl Tommy (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Ruined) directs. “With Ruined and her fresh approach to Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Liesl created two of the most artistically exciting productions of recent memory at the Huntington,” says DuBois. “Now she brings her perspective to one of the greatest American plays ever written.”

M South End/Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA march 29–april 27, 2013 famous for his irreverently funny adaptations of the classics, Huntington Playwriting Fellow Ryan Landry (Psyched,Death of a Saleslady, The Little Pricks) sets his twisted sights on Fritz Lang’s early film noir masterpiece, M, about a child killer who is hunted down and brought to justice by the criminal underworld. This provocative yet surprisingly hilarious premiere features Boston favorite Karen MacDonald (All My Sons) and is directed by Caitlin Lowans (Turn of the Screw). Warning: not for the squeamish!

Boston.com says, “With Ryan Landry, perversity and hilarity go skipping along hand in hand.” “Lang’s film is nothing less than a masterpiece and the very fact that some are still unfamiliar with it is far more disturbing (to me) than its actual subject matter,” says Landry. “I plan to make the audience laugh, cry, and boil with rage.

All in the course of 90 minutes. If this does not happen then I have obviously failed and hereby promise to pack up my pages and head for the hills. If I do succeed however, I expect many shiny awards for everyone involved, a plaque in the men’s room commemorating my contribution to the arts, and a complimentary cheese plate.” DuBois says, “Ryan’s genre-breaking, gender-bending brand of theatre unites puppets, cross dressing, and a classic suspense film. It won’t be for the faint of heart, but it will be an amazing collaboration between two Boston theatre legends. I am as excited as anyone to see what happens.”

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Huntington Theatre Company Rapture, Blister, Burn South End/Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA may 24–june 22, 2013 after grad school, Catherine pursued a career as a rockstar feminist academic, while Gwen built a home with her husband and children. Decades later, each friend covets the other’s life.

With searing insight and trademark wit, this new comedy by Gina Gionfriddo (Becky Shaw) takes a deep look at family, career, romance, and the decisions that define a life. Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois (Sons of the Prophet) directs. Variety says, “Gionfriddo’s some kind of genius.” “Gina is a dear friend and has been an artistic partner since we were in graduate school,” says DuBois. “This sharp, smart comedy, set in a small New England college town, will connect deeply with our audiences here in Boston. What the play has to say about marriage, feminism, and parenthood—from the 20-something, 40-something, and 70-something perspective—is savagely funny and deeply human.”

Contact Huntington Theatre Company/ Boston University Theatre 264 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts 527 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02116 www.huntingtontheatre.org Tickets (617) 266-0800

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n influential forum for Richard Prince, Untitled multi-disciplinary arts, the (Cowboy), 1987, Ektacolor photograph, Institute of Contemporary 20 x 24 in (50.8 x 61 cm).

Art has been at the leading edge of art Rubell Family Collection in Boston for 75 years. Like its iconic building on Boston’s waterfront, the ICA offers new ways of engaging with the world around us. Its exhibitions and programs provide access to contemporary art, artists, and the creative process, inviting audiences of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the excitement of new art and ideas. The ICA, located at 100 Northern Avenue, is open Tuesday and Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Admission is $15 adults, $13 seniors and $10 students, and free for members and children 17 and under. ICA Free Admission for Youth is sponsored

by State Street Corporation. Free admission on ICA Free Thursday Nights, 5:00–9:00 p.m. Free admission for families at ICA Play Dates (2 adults + children 12 and under) on last Saturday of the month.

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Institute of Contemporary Art Exhibitions Os Gêmeos august 1–november 25, 2012 the ica presents the first solo U.S. exhibition of Brazilian street artists Os Gêmeos. Born Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo, Os Gêmeos are identical twin brothers whose pseudonym translates to “the twins” in Portuguese. They first came to public attention with largescale works created on the streets of their native São Paulo, a city whose social dynamics and vast urban landscape greatly influences their work. The ICA exhibition will include a selection of the artists’ paintings and sculptures, as well as a public mural outside the museum.

Dianna Molzan august 1–november 25, 2012 dianna molzan’s vibrant paintings alter our expectations of what painting can be. In her work, the very materials of painting—paint, canvas, and wooden stretcher bars—are dismantled and cast into relief. A painting’s canvas may be cut and turned into a woven grid, extend into space with sewn shapes, or gently unraveled into a soft web of draping lines. The history of painting threads through her work in color choices, the application of paint, and shaped canvas, though myriad visual influences are also invoked—from art pottery, Art Deco, Italian 1980s Memphis design, and the Arts and Crafts movement to Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, and Richard Tuttle. For her first solo museum show in Boston, Molzan will create an ensemble of all new works. Dianna Molzan is organized by ICA Senior Curator Jenelle Porter.

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s november 16, 2012–march 3, 2013 the art produced during the 1980s veered between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art historically aware. This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s provides viewers with an overview of the artistic production

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Institute of Contemporary Art of these heady days, as well as imparts the decade’s sense of political and aesthetic urgency by placing many of the decade’s competing factions in close proximity to one another. The exhibition is divided into four sections: “The End is Near” toggles between discourses of the end of painting, the end of the counter culture, and the end of history. In the “Democracy” section we see a renewed interest on the part of artists with working in the street, the burgeoning awareness of the importance of the mass media (particularly television), the rise of Central American artists and artists of color to increasing prominence, and the pervasive commitment to the political that shaped the period. The section titled “Gender Trouble” elaborates upon the implications of the 1970s feminist movement with work that expanded our sense of societal gender roles and smuggled in new ideas about sexuality and figuration. Finally, there is a section called “Desire and Longing” in which artists working with appropriation techniques are presented in relation to the emergence of queer visibility brought on by the AIDS crisis. By crossing these wires the exhibition hopes to suggest that despite the claims of cynicism or overarching irony sometimes leveled at the work of this period, often what we find are artists struggling to articulate their wants, needs, and desires in an increasingly commodified and seemingly impenetrable world. Organized by MCA Chicago, This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s is curated by Helen Molesworth, chief curator at the ICA. Barry McGee march 1–may 19, 2013 this midcareer survey of influential San Francisco-based artist Barry McGee provides an opportunity to explore two decades of the artist’s formal and thematic development. McGee began sharing his work in the 1980s, not in a museum or gallery setting but on the streets of San Francisco, where he developed his skills as a graffiti artist, often using the tag name “Twist.” McGee uses a vocabulary drawn from comics, hobo art, sign painting, and graffiti to address a range of issues, from individual survival to social malaise to alternative forms of community. McGee’s extraordinary skill as a draughtsman and printmaker is balanced by an interest in pushing the boundaries of art: his work can be shockingly informal in the

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Institute of Contemporary Art gallery and surprisingly elegant on the street. This chronological survey of McGee’s work from the 1990s to the present includes rarely seen early works on paper; reassembled works from key installations; a tower of video pieces; a massive three-dimensional cluster of drawings, paintings, and photographs; as well as other recent works. Coordinated for the ICA by ICA Senior Curator Jenelle Porter, Barry McGee is organized by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, and Pacific Film Archive.

Amy Sillman october 4, 2013–january 5, 2014 the first museum survey of New York-based painter Amy Sillman will contain drawings, paintings, and ’zines, as well as the artist’s recent forays into animated film. Covering the period from 1995 to the present the exhibition traces the development in Sillman’s work from her early use of cartoon figures and a vivacious palette, through to her exploration of the diagrammatic line, the history of abstract expressionism, and a growing concern with the bodily and the erotic dimensions of paint. The exhibition will focus on the importance of drawing in Sillman’s practice, as well as the intensity with which she has embraced the dichotomy between figuration and abstraction.

Contact The Institute of Contemporary Art 100 Northern Avenue Boston, MA 02210 www.icaboston.org Tickets (617) 478-3100

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he isabella stewart gardner View of the new Renzo Museum displays an art Piano-designed wing of the Isabella Stewart collection of world importance, Gardner Museum. including works that rank among the Photo Courtesy: most significant of their type. Isabella Nic Lehoux, 2012 Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 2,500 objects—paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, photographs, and letters—from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world, and 19th century France and America.

Built to evoke a 15th century Venetian palace, the museum itself provides an atmospheric setting for Isabella Stewart Gardner’s inventive creation.

Historical and scholarly endeavors at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, directed by the Curator of the Collection, explore the museum’s permanent collection and the context of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s time in order to encourage new ways of thinking about art and culture.

Exhibitions examine historical and social perspectives of works of art, resulting in a truly enriching experience for visitors to the museum. The permanent collection is today a source of inspiration for educators, thinkers, and

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum contemporary artists. In 2002, the museum’s first “Scholar-inResidence” collaborated with museum curators and the community on research into the life of Japanese art critic Okakura Kakuzo and his influence on Isabella Stewart Gardner. Other recent projects have begun to highlight lesser-known aspects of the permanent collection and archives. exhibitions Stefano Arienti: Wild Carrot Evans Way Façade through december a second site-specific installation by Stefano Arienti, a Gardner Museum Artist-in-Residence (2004). Arienti produced the first work for a new 34-foot high by 16-foot wide outdoor space for temporary art installations on the façade of the new entrance.

Raqs Media Collective: The Great Bare Mat & Constellation Special Exhibition and Introductory Gallery september 20, 2012– january 7, 2013 of the current generation of Indian artists, the Raqs Media Collective from New Delhi (Jeebesh Bagchi, 1965; Monica Narula, 1969; Shuddhabrata Sengupta, 1968) are among the best known and most widely exposed in the west—and certainly the most media conscious. Having started as documentary filmmakers, over the past 20 years they have evolved a sophisticated—and

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum sometimes performative— practice that combines photography, film, media, audio, and text, which draw upon philosophy and political theory, in installations of an unresolved poetics.

The fall exhibition The Great Bare Mat & Constellation includes new works, displayed in two distinct gallery Video Still, Raqs Media Collective 2012. installations. The first features a carpet, a surface for the staging of conversations, displayed at the feet of The Vinegar Tasters, a twofold 17th century Japanese screen from the Gardner Collection. The carpet’s repeated motif, woven by expert Bulgarian weavers, indexes the constellation of the Great Bear against a background of signals, essays, and conversations among three personal computers of the Raqs Media Collective.

The second installation in the Special Exhibition Gallery is a silent looped video projection that transforms, through a series of subtle alterations, the many photographs and film stills the artists have recorded while in residence at the Gardner Museum in 2010.

The images of the projected video reflect onto an adjacent gallery wall, where a luminous array of shiny metal surfaces mirroring distinct narratives create a crescendo of accumulated images in the mind of the viewer, much like what happens while walking through the galleries of the museum.

Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America Special Exhibition and Introductory Gallery february 28–may 13, 2013 an exhibition and catalogue devoted to Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860–1920) will be the first international loan exhibition dedicated to Zorn in the United States in 25 years. For the first time, outstanding works from public and private collections in Sweden,

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Italy, and the U.S. will be shown alongside one another. Although highly esteemed by his contemporaries, including his early and influential American patron Isabella Stewart Gardner, Zorn is little known to the general public in the U.S. today. programs & events Masterpiece Lecture Series thursdays, 7:00 p.m. take a fresh look at the Gardner Museum’s collection through the eyes of world class scholars to reconsider the idea of the masterpiece.

Masterpiece Lectures celebrate and question the concept of iconic artwork over time and culture.

David Alan Brown, Curator of Italian Painting, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) Art and Devotion in the Gardner november 29, 2012 a small painting of Christ Carrying the Cross has always had a special place in the Gardner Museum and in Isabella Stewart Gardner’s affections as a collector. But the sentimental haze surrounding the picture should not prevent us from giving it a closer look. Once attributed to the great Venetian masters Giovanni Bellini or Giorgione, recent scholarship suggests it is by an artist halfway between them—the former Bellini pupil and colleague of Giorgione’s named Vincenzo Catena. Likewise, the painting hovers between art and devotion, as Christ pauses—to be appreciated—on the way to Calvary.

Gardner After Hours third thursdays, 5:00–9:00 p.m. experience the Gardner Museum at night. Soak up the atmosphere of the historic Courtyard and the striking new wing.

Enjoy live music, wine bar, artist talks, gallery games, art making, and more.

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Portrait/Portrayal november 15, 2012 play with portraits: get ready for your close-up in the historic Palace as the Museum glows with music, conversation, and artful experiences.

7:00 p.m.—Featured event: Jazz at the Gardner—New Directions in Jazz Word Play december 20, 2012 embrace your inner book worm with an evening of words, poetry, and literature. Enjoy light-hearted games and talks in the galleries, and art-making in the Studio.

7:00 p.m.—Featured event: Avant Gardner—Callithumpian Consort: Celebrating John Cage’s 100th, Part III. conservation Stout Lecture Larry Keith, Director of Conservation, The National Gallery (London) Learning from Leonardo december 13, 2012, 7:00 p.m. the 2009 restoration of the Virgin of the Rocks, the masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci in London’s National Gallery, was undertaken for primarily aesthetic reasons. Intended to improve the visitor’s visual experience and understanding of the picture, the conservation treatment was guided by several years of study, both of this work and of a number of paintings made

by Leonardo’s Milanese associates and assistants in the National Gallery collection. This fascinating research has led to a new understanding of the painting’s relationship with the Louvre version of the same subject, as well as providing more general evidence of Leonardo’s evolving artistic interest and techniques.

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum contemporary The Great Bare Mat Exchange: A Carpet for Conversations the great bare mat is a carpet, a surface for the staging of conversations. It gestures to two exquisite Han bronze bears in the collection of the Gardner Museum—mat-weights from China that served to weigh down carpets on which debaters would sit and argue philosophical points.

The Great Bare Mat weaves in a repeated motif that indexes the constellation of the Great A performance at Calderwood Hall, the new Bear (also known as Ursa Major) performance venue in the against the ground of a tracing of the new Renzo Piano-designed wing of the Isabella Stewart orbits of signals, messages, debate, and Gardner Museum discussion among the three personal computers of the Raqs Media Collective.

Photos: Nic Lehoux, 2012 This carpet, woven by a team of expert Bulgarian weavers of the Rodopski Kilim Carpet Factory, Bulgaria will serve as a platform for a specially commissioned program of conversation at the Gardner Museum.

The program will kick off with a set of four “exchanges” in Calderwood Hall, each involving four speakers, with Raqs as moderators. Each “exchange” will reflect on a theme which the Raqs Media Collective has chosen as a response to their time spent within the Gardner Museum. Each theme speaks to a specific attribute or quality of the Gardner, but is to be interpreted as freely as possible by the speakers. The themes are Nostalgia, Intelligence, Accumulation, and Music. Raqs’ experience of the Gardner has led them to think of the way in which the Gardner treats time, accumulates images in the mind of the viewer, curates a special experience of intelligence, and creates encounters between art and music.

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum The Great Bare Mat Exchange: A Carpet for Conversations Where Does Nostalgia Take Us? september 20, 7:00 p.m.

The Great Bare Mat Exchange: A Carpet for Conversations What Does Intelligence Do for Us? october 25, 7:00 p.m.

The Great Bare Mat Exchange: A Carpet for Conversations What Does Accumulation Do to Us? november 3, 7:00 p.m.

The Great Bare Mat Exchange: A Carpet for Conversations Why Does Music Move Us? december 8, 7:00 p.m. landscapes Landscape Lectures thursday, 7:00 p.m. landscape Lectures feature engaging and inspirational presentations by internationally renowned landscape architects whose work has shaped the field and embodies the highest aspirations for landscape as an element in the social, cultural, and environmental life of the city.

Martha Schwartz november 8, 2012 martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with major interests in cities and the urban landscape–from creating site-specific art installations to working in cities at strategic planning levels. Her focus is on how design affects environmental sustainability and on building an awareness of how urban landscapes underwrite urban stability by functioning as the www.guideforthearts.com

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum platform for a city’s environmental, social, and economic health.

Recent projects are the Mesa Arts Center in Arizona; Dublin Docklands Grand Canal Square in Ireland; Monte Laar Central Park in Vienna, Austria; Qatar Petroleum Headquarters in Doha, Qatar; and the Natick Mall west of Boston. courtyard displays Chrysanthemums october 17–november 26, 2012 japanese-style chrysanthemums mix with traditional chrysanthemums in a celebration of color. Dozens of varieties of chrysanthemums appear in the courtyard. To create this unique exhibit, Museum gardeners and volunteers use Japanese cultivation methods to create the large, single blooms called Ogiku.

A Holiday Garden november 28, 2012–january 7, 2013 holidays are a special time to come to the Museum where the festive courtyard, overflowing with dark forest greens and flashes of red and silver, adds to the excitement of the season. This holiday tradition showcases holly topiaries, dark red poinsettias, and silver Artemisia around the courtyard mosaic. Bright red berries of Pyracantha and the winter blooms of amaryllis brighten winter shadows. music Sunday Concert Series classical masterpieces performed by renowned musicians alongside outstanding emerging artists. sundays, 1:30 p.m.

Belcea Quartet november 4, 2012 Beethoven String Quartets

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center november 11, 2012 Haydn, Milhaud, Copland, Bartók Young Artists Showcase—First Prize Winner, 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions november 18, 2012 Jennifer Johnson Cano, Mezzo-soprano Christopher Cano, Piano Korngold, Chausson, Schubert, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and more Cecile Licad, piano november 25, 2012 Licad Plays Liszt and Chopin, Part III Borromeo String Quartet with Roger Tapping, viola Celebrating 20 years at the Gardner Museum december 2, 2012 Dvořák Project, Part I A Far Cry The Gardner’s resident chamber orchestra december 9, 2012 Rautavaara, Vivaldi, Piazzolla, Bartók, Walton Avant Gardner thursdays, 7:00 p.m. innovative 20th and 21st century sounds, including new works by emerging composers.

Callithumpian Consort Celebrating John Cage’s 100th, Part II november 1, 2012 Cage, Feldman, Nono

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum A Far Cry The Gardner’s Resident Chamber Orchestra december 6, 2012 Cage, Schnittke, Haydn Callithumpian Consort Celebrating John Cage’s 100th, Part III december 20, 2012 Cage, Cardew, Wolff Jazz at the Gardner thursdays, 7:00 p.m. infusing thursday evenings with the sounds and rhythms of classic and contemporary jazz. Hosted by Ron Savage.

New Directions in Jazz november 15, 2012 led by world-renowned drummer and 2012 Grammy Award winner Terri Lyne Carrington, this innovative ensemble from Berklee College of Music showcases new approaches to jazz performance.

Contact Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 280 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 www.gardnermuseum.org Tickets (617) 278-5156

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he original museum of fine Exterior view of the Art Arts opened its doors to the of the Americas Wing. public on July 4, 1876, the nation’s Photo © Museum of centennial. Built in Copley Square, the Fine Arts, Boston 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.

We welcome more than one million visitors each year to experience art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary, special exhibitions, and innovative educational programs. exhibitions Art of the White Mountains Edward and Nancy Roberts Family Gallery july 14, 2012–july 7, 2013 beginning in the first decades of the 19th century, artists and writers were drawn to the pristine beauty of northern New Hampshire’s natural wonders: majestic peaks in the Franconia and Presidential ranges crowned by Mount Washington, the highest

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summit in the northeast; Crawford, Pinkham, and Franconia “Notches”—dramatic, narrow passages between the mountain walls; and spectacular waterfalls such as Flume Gorge. The singular topography of the White Mountains inspired early landscapists, including Thomas Doughty, Thomas Cole, and Benjamin Champney; later masters Winslow Homer and George Inness; and 20th century modernists such as William Zorach. The exhibition is drawn primarily from the MFA’s rich collection and will examine the allure of the White Mountains for artists for nearly two centuries. Works ranging from exquisite sketches of the region’s flora and geological formations to panoramic vistas of the expansive landscape will be featured in a selection of more than 30 oil paintings, drawings, prints, watercolors, sketchbooks, photographs, and rare books. Rarely seen gems

by Alvan Fisher, Jasper Cropsey, and Robert S. Duncanson will be joined by more widely known views by George Inness and Lancaster, New Hampshire, 1862 Robert S. Duncanson (American, 1821–1872) Sanford Gifford to underscore Oil on canvas the importance of the White The John Axelrod Collection—Frank B. Bemis Fund and Charles H. Bayley Fund Mountains in the American landscape tradition.

Photo © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cats to Crickets: Pets in Japan’s Floating World Japanese Print Gallery july 21, 2012–february 18, 2013 the companionship of pets was one of the pleasures of the hedonistic lifestyle of urban commoners in 18th and 19th century www.guideforthearts.com

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Museum of Fine Arts/Boston Japan, known as the Floating World. Many woodblock prints of fashionable beauties show them accompanied by elegant, pampered pets who symbolize luxury and sensuality. Formerly a prerogative of the nobility, pets became available to newly affluent commoners as well. This exhibition will examine the role of animals in early modern Japanese popular culture through the display of about 35 to 40 works. These will show a mix of artists, styles, and formats, grouped according to the animals depicted and the ways in which they are presented. Favored as indoor pets were cats and small dogs as well as monkeys, mice, fish, birds, and even singing insects.

Meanwhile, on the streets and in the countryside of Japan, dogs were beloved pets of both children and adults. Traveling entertainers presented acts by trained monkeys in costumes, and artists sometimes drew humorous fantasy scenes of animals engaged in human activities. Pet animals were even incorporated into the designs of textiles and personal accessories. The show will appeal to animal lovers as well as those interested in Japanese culture and fine printmaking.

Ori Gersht: History Repeating Henry and Lois Foster Gallery august 28, 2012–january 6, 2013 the mfa will present Ori Gersht: History Repeating, the first comprehensive survey of works by Ori Gersht (b. 1967), who weds old masters to new technologies in large-scale photographs and in films. Gersht quotes sources such as Spanish and Dutch still life painting and the landscapes of Romanticism, but his interest in history also goes beyond the visual arts to encompass personal history, political history, and civil unrest, such as that which colored his childhood in Israel and shaped his identity. More than 30 works will be featured in the exhibition, including 17 photographs and eight moving-image pieces made by the London-based artist since 1998, as well as six works selected by Gersht from across the MFA’s encyclopedic collection that punctuate the exhibition.

Daniel Rich: Platforms of Power Edward H. Linde Gallery september 29, 2012–march 31, 2013

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Museum of Fine Arts/Boston new york painter Daniel Rich (b. 1977), a School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) alumnus (2004), has spent a decade investigating the link between architecture, nationalism, and political power. He works from Google images, newspapers, and his own photographs, using a labor-intensive and complicated system of City Hall, Boston hand-cutting stencils, color mixing, Daniel Rich (British, masking, and squeegeeing to create Germany, born in 1977) 2012 Acrylic on Dibond incredibly smooth surfaces on his painstakingly precise acrylic paintings. *Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York Small areas of brushwork that reveal the artist’s hand and hard-edged areas of rich flat color in a stylized palette combine to depict real-life structures that symbolize the international race for global domination. Platforms of Power is Rich’s first museum exhibition and will feature several new paintings, including one based on Boston’s architecture. It is a continuation of the MFA’s annual series of exhibitions focusing on recent graduates of the SMFA whose work has achieved critical acclaim.

Holland on Paper: Birth of the Modern Frances Vrachos Gallery october 20, 2012–july 7, 2013 in the era of Art Nouveau, from the 1890s through the turn of the century, there was a flourishing of new, imaginative art and craft throughout Europe. Holland also saw an explosion of inventive art and design in this period, including many expressive works on paper—posters, decorative calendars, and illustrated books, as well as prints and drawings. The MFA has been actively collecting these neglected Dutch works for the last 25 years, and this exhibition

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Museum of Fine Arts/Boston will highlight early drawings by well-known artists Piet Mondrian and Bart van der Leck, as well as works by Jan Toorop, Theo Nieuwenhuis, Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, Theo Hoytema, G.W. Dijsselhof, and C.A. Lion Cachet. The exhibition will feature some 45 works, drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection.

Mario Testino: In Your Face Ann and Graham Gund Gallery october 21, 2012– february 3, 2013 thirty years of compelling images taken by photographer Mario Testino—known for works that evoke elegance, beauty, style, irreverence, and contradiction—will be presented Carmen Kass, Los Angeles, 2009 in this exhibition, his first in the Photo © Mario Testino.

U.S. Among the works on view that show the range and quality of Testino’s career will be exquisitely styled images of international superstars such as models Kate Moss, Stephanie Seymour, and Gisele Bündchen; actors Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman, and Gwyneth Paltrow; musicians Mick Jagger, Madonna, and Lady Gaga; and athletes David Beckham and Tom Brady. In Your Face will recreate the photographer’s world and his people— formal portraits juxtaposed with private party snapshots, nudes with fashion, black and white with color, and interiors with exterior settings—making visitors feel as though they had stepped into the pages of one of today’s most entertaining and spectacular fashion magazines. For this retrospective, Testino has chosen approximately 125 photographs that present an inside look at some of today’s most elusive and exclusive subjects. These will be drawn from among the thousands he has taken during his prolific career as contributor to magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. Arranged in contrasting juxtapositions, these provocative visual stories capture the interplay of mass media, celebrity, and glamour, and offer a new understanding of Testino’s aesthetic contributions to fashion and photography.

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Museum of Fine Arts/Boston Mario Testino: British Royal Portraits Herb Ritts Gallery october 21, 2012–june 16, 2013 shortly after photographer Mario Testino went to England from his native Peru in 1976, he took his first photograph of British royalty, an impromptu shot of The Queen Mother and her grandson, Prince Edward, as they passed by crowds gathered in London’s streets to celebrate the marriage of HRH the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. It was the first of many photographs Testino has taken of members of the House of Windsor during the course of his significant career. This exhibition showcases images of the royal family, from Diana, Princess of Wales, and Prince Charles, to their sons, William and Harry, and, most recently, the engagement portraits of Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. This will be the first HRH The Prince of Wales, HRH U.S. showing of many of these Prince William & HRH Prince, London, 2004 photographs, which are among the many personal favorites Testino has Photo © Mario Testino. chosen for this unique exhibition.

Kings, Queens and Courtiers: Royalty on Paper (Title TBD) Clementine Brown Gallery october 21, 2012–june 16, 2013 to provide a broader historical context for Mario Testino: British Royal Portraits, Mario Testino’s exhibition of photographs of the British royal family in the Ritts Gallery, the MFA will present a

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Museum of Fine Arts/Boston portrait show of prints and drawings of royals and individuals of noble birth dating from the early 16th century to about 1900 in the adjacent gallery. This will be drawn primarily from the Museum’s collection, with select loans from private collectors. Approximately 35 works will be highlighted, including Albrecht Dürer’s Triumphal Chariot of the Emperor Maximilian, printed on eight large sheets of paper. In some instances, the same royal personage will be seen as represented by different artists. One example is the Habsburg Emperor Maximilian, a master of personal propaganda, who was portrayed by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Burgkmair, and Lucas van Leyden. Also included will be highly finished drawings of 16th century French courtiers from the circle of François Clouet. Prints by noble hands, such as etchings by Madame De Pompadour made under the direction of François Boucher, will be showcased, as will caricatures (King Louis Phillipe by Honoré Daumier) and images of royal festivities. A selection of illustrated books will also be included.

The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection Lois and Michael Torf Gallery october 24, 2012– april 14, 2013

Probably Aleardo Villa (Italian, 1865–1906) Published in Milan by Officine G. Ricordi & Company Color lithograph on card stock *Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Promised gift of Leonard A. Lauder *Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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the mfa will present The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, the first general exploration of the postcard as an artistic medium at a major museum. It will feature 450 postcards from Europe and the United States, drawn from the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive, one of the world’s finest and most boston

Museum of Fine Arts/Boston comprehensive collections of postcards, and a promised gift to the MFA. The exhibition will explore the postcard craze that swept the world in the decades around 1900, when billions of cards were bought, mailed, and pasted into albums—the period’s Twitter, email, Flickr, and Facebook, all wrapped into one. Acclaimed artists turned to the new medium, but one of the great pleasures of postcards is how some of the most beautiful and interesting cards were made by artists whose names are barely known. Taking in themes as varied as travel and celebrity, sports and war, The Postcard Age will trace how historical and cultural themes of the modern age—enthralling, exciting, and sometimes disturbing— played out on the postcard’s tiny canvas.

Divine Depictions: Korean Buddhist Paintings Asian Paintings Gallery november 16, 2012–june 23, 2013 this exhibition of 10 rare Korean Buddhist paintings in the Asian Paintings Gallery will complement the renovated Arts of Korea Gallery, set to open at the same time. The paintings, all framed and glazed, have not been displayed in many years. Many of them came to the MFA from Japan, as Korean Buddhist paintings were appreciated and stored there in Buddhist temples. Although Korea’s Goryeo Dynasty (918–1392) is better known than the subsequent Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910), the exhibition will focus on Buddhist paintings of the Joseon Dynasty, some of which were commissioned by the royal family. In this period, many Buddhist temples moved out of the city into mountainous rural areas, as Neo-Confucianism became the official philosophy. Particularly popular types of Korean Buddhist paintings were portraits of famous priests or monks, which would have been exhibited in a special hall in each temple.

Examples of these works and King of Hell paintings will be included in the show.

Art in the Street: European Posters Mary Stamas Galley november 17, 2012–july 21, 2013 the international poster mania of the 1890s made fine art accessible to the masses, bringing it out of the salon and into the www.guideforthearts.com

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Museum of Fine Arts/Boston streets and shop windows. For many the topic of posters brings to mind the Belle Epoche—the age of Toulouse-Lautrec. By contrast, the posters in this exhibition will range in date from the 1890s to about 1940, with an emphasis on the decade of the 1920s—the age of Art Deco. Several fine French posters will be included, but the primary emphasis will be on designers from other European countries, including Germany, Holland, Switzerland, England, and Russia. Art in the Street will present 20 highlights (many of them recent acquisitions), drawn primarily from the Museum’s growing permanent collection of some 2,500 posters. Styles range from that of the fin-de-siècle Secession movements through Bauhaus, Art Deco, Russian photomontage, and Swiss modernism. Subjects will include advertisements for exhibitions and cultural events, transportation, and food and design products, as well as political propaganda. new galleries Michael C. Ruettgers Gallery Opens September 2012 five hundred ancient Greek and Roman coins from the Museum’s world-renowned collection will be showcased in the inaugural exhibition of the MFA’s new coin gallery. It is the first gallery Aureus with bust of dedicated to coins at a major U.S. Aelius Verus, A.D. 137 museum, unique in the world for its Gold, Gift of Michael C. Ruettgers emphasis on ancient coins as works Photograph © Museum of Fine of art. It is named in recognition of Arts, Boston Michael C. Ruettgers, who has given 14 rare and important Roman gold coins to the MFA, including Aureus with the bust of Aelius Verus from 137 AD. The exhibition will draw from the Museum’s collection of approximately 7,500 coins and will feature some of the MFA’s most important Greek and Roman coins, many prized through the centuries as objects of wealth and status. The Dekadrachm (Demareteion) of Syracuse with quadriga

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Museum of Fine Arts/Boston (about 465 BC) is the most famous Greek coin in the Museum’s collection and one of the most significant ones in the world, and the Tetradrachm of Amphipolis with head of Apollo (390–370 BC) is one of the most sculptural of Greek coin types. They illustrate how Greek coins are highly sophisticated, beautiful works of art on a miniature scale. The MFA’s Roman coins document political and cultural history, as seen in the Denarius with head of M. Junius Brutus (43–42 BC), which warns of death to tyrants on its obverse side with its cap of liberty flanked by two daggers—a coin issued

by Brutus in the aftermath of the Ides of March assassination of Julius Caesar. In contrast, Aureus with bust of Claudius II Gothicus (268–270 AD), the largest gold coin in the Museum’s collection, offers a message of stability after a period of turmoil in 3rd century Rome. Also on view in the gallery will be complementary works of art to show how coin engravers used the same visual vocabulary and similar compositions as found in larger works, but had to also adapt them to miniature scale and round format. Additionally, the exhibition will examine the influence of ancient coins through the ages as documented by a Frederic II gold coin from the Middle Ages, and an 18th century American copper coin. To enhance the appreciation of these works, gallery visitors will be able to examine these and other coins on iPads and a computer kiosk.

Gems and Jewelry from the Ancient Mediterranean Opens September 2012 the mfa’s newest jewelry gallery will highlight more than 200 objects from the Museum’s collection of Greek and Roman gems, the largest in the United States, and its holdings of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman jewelry.

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Museum of Fine Arts/Boston The most famous gem is Cameo with the Wedding of Cupid and Psyche once owned by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens and then by the Duke of Marlborough. A gold standout is the renowned Nike earring of the 4th century BC comprising 150 pieces of gold. The gallery will provide a dramatic jewel box display and include works of art representing ancient women wearing jewelry. This is the Museum’s second gallery dedicated to the display of jewelry. It opens a year after the debut of the Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation Gallery. Works on view in both galleries draw from the MFA’s collection of approximately 11,000 ornaments representing a rich variety of jewels, gems, and treasures.

William I. Koch Gallery—European Paintings Opens September 2012 designed in the spirit of a European palace, with walls covered in damask, the Koch Gallery will showcase great masterpieces from Italy, France, The Netherlands, and Spain from the 16th and 17th centuries in an arrangement that recalls the great historical art collections of wealthy and noble families. In addition, it will feature major examples of Hanoverian silver from the MFA’s holdings, and tapestries from the Palazzo Barberini in Rome.

Improved acoustic and lighting systems will also help transform the space.

Arts of Korea Gallery Opens November 2012 the korean collection at the MFA is one of the best outside Korea and includes works of art from the Bronze Age to the present day.

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Museum of Fine Arts/Boston strengths, which lie in 11th–13th century celadons from the Hoyt collection and Buddhist paintings from the Bigelow collection, as well as some spectacular pieces of lacquer and metalwork. Other works to be displayed in the gallery include a 12th century gilt silver ewer and basin and a 14th century gilt silver Buddhist reliquary, as well as a superb 18th century trompe l’oeil bookshelf screen, on loan from a local private collection. In addition, the gallery, renovated with the support of the Korea Foundation, will include newly acquired contemporary ceramics, and paintings, both Buddhist and secular, which will be on display on a rotating basis.

Contact Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 www.mfa.org Tickets (617) 267-9300

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ow in its third decade, The Arsenal Center for the New Rep has established itself Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA as one of Boston’s premiere theatre companies. Celebrated for Courtesy: New Repertory Theatre 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.

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Chesapeake Black Box Theater Boston Premiere november 25–december 16, 2012 A comedy by Lee Blessing Directed by Doug Lockwood this playful and smart comedy explores the age-old questions, “What is art?”, “Who decides which art is worthy?”, and “What kind of art deserves public funding?” A liberal, provocative performance artist at odds with a conservative southern senator

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New Repertory Theatre hatches a plot to kidnap the senator’s beloved dog, hoping to squelch threats of National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funding cuts.

When a twist of fate brings these nemeses together, chaos ensues and karma bites back. Called “eloquent” by Variety, Chesapeake gives new meaning to the term “man’s best friend.” “If we could only relate man-to-man as we do dog-to-dog, things might be a lot more pleasant.” (Variety) Marry Me A Little Charles Mosesian Theater january 6–27, 2013 Songs by Stephen Sondheim Conceived and developed by Craig Lucas and Norman Rene Directed and choreographed by Ilyse Robbins join new rep for an updated take on Sondheim’s charming musical revue—and on modern-day marriage. Marry Me A Little weaves songs from Sondheim’s vault of unproduced shows and cutouts from his known musicals. Through bittersweet soliloquies and song, lonely New York singles fantasize romantic adventures, join in emotional conflict, and question the commitment of marriage—all the while never actually meeting. Marry Me A Little touts “a treasure trove of rare musical delights” (San Francisco Chronicle), including songs originally written for Follies, A Little Night Music, Company, and other Sondheim favorites. “A light, lilting and wittily poignant romance.” (San Francisco Chronicle) Lungs Black Box Theater Boston Premiere february 17–march 10, 2013 A comedy by Duncan Macmillan Directed by Bridget Kathleen O’Leary in the modern-day world of overpopulation and global warming, this new comedy looks at the intimate, laughable moments of 94

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New Repertory Theatre decision making in a present-day reality. Through many intimate conversations, a young, educated couple agonizes over parenthood, adult responsibility, and whether having children in today’s world is justified. Bridget Kathleen O’Leary (who directed New Rep’s Collected Stories and Doll House) directs Lungs, which asks the “big questions” of how to be a good person, have a good influence on our planet, and still live a good life. “Smart and stimulating.” (The Washington Post) Master Class Charles Mosesian Theater march 31–april 21, 2013 A play with music by Terrence McNally Directed by Antonio Ocampo-Guzman terrence mcnally’s Tony Award-winning play gives an insightful look at the life and art of Maria Callas, the best-selling, rampageous opera star. Now in the twilight of her career, through a series of master classes, she reflects on her life, reliving theatrical artistic and painful intimate disappointments. Antonio Ocampo-Guzman (who also directed New Rep’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and ‘ART’) directs this theatrical tour de force, exploring the complexity of celebrity, ego, ambition, achievement—and ultimately, the loss of identity and self-worth while struggling to let go of the past.

“Intellectual and emotional splendor.” (The New Yorker) Amadeus Charles Mosesian Theater april 28–may 19, 2013 A play with music by Peter Shaffer Directed by Jim Petosa winner of seven Tony Awards including Best Play, Amadeus explodes with musical masterpieces and richness of language, harkening back to times of excess and indulgence. Called “triumphant” by The New York Times, this Renaissance drama www.guideforthearts.com

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New Repertory Theatre takes us back to 18th century Europe and the tumultuous rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. Falsely befriending Mozart, the jealous and power-hungry Salieri hopes to socially and politically ruin his opponent and inhibit Mozart’s legacy. Jim Petosa (who directed New Rep’s Three Viewings, The Last Five Years, and Opus) directs this engaging drama, in which Salieri questions God for unfairly favoring Mozart. “Riveting.” (The Washington Post).

Holiday Memories Charles Mosesian Theater december 9–23, 2012 Adapted by Russell Vandenbroucke Based on short stories by Truman Capote This heartfelt drama combines Truman Capote’s short stories “The Thanksgiving Visitor” and “A Christmas Memory.” Based on his childhood in mid-Depression, deep south of Alabama country life, Capote finds poetry in the everyday activities leading up to Christmas. Eightyear-old Buddy and his older eccentric cousin Miss Sook embark on their annual pre-holiday rituals of making handmade ornaments, baking treats, and searching for the perfect Christmas tree. Called “an evening of fond reminiscences” by The Chicago Tribune, these American tales reveal tender moments of friendship, fruitcakes, and the joy of giving.

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2012 holiday productions

Fully Committed Black Box Theater december 19–30, 2012 A comedy by Becky Mode Directed by Bridget Kathleen O’Leary This wry, witty comedy follows Sam, an actor-slash-reservation clerk at a 4-star Manhattan restaurant who is just trying to get

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home to the Midwest for the holidays. While simultaneously being badgered by the snitty chef, he “handles” uppity demanding New Yorkers including Dianne Sawyer, Naomi Campbell’s assistant, Sherry Lansing’s secretary at Paramount Pictures, East Side socialites, and suspected members of the mafia. Sam turns the tables of rejection and resorts to accepting bribes in order to “give good table.” One of Time Magazine’s top-ten plays of 2000, “Fully Committed has comic chops sufficient to devour an entire season of Saturday Night Live,” says Variety.

Contact New Repertory Theatre Charles Mosesian Theater and Black Box Theater 321 Arsenal Street Watertown, MA 02472 www.newrep.org Tickets (617) 923-8487

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here are many reasons to come PEM at night. to PEM. Sometimes, looking at a Photo Courtesy Peabody work of art with someone special Essex Museum by your side is all the motivation you need.

Sitting in the light-filled Atrium, having lunch outside in the Garden Restaurant, watching the expression on a child’s face as she makes a collage—each experience is worth the trip. PEM is the place to come for enjoyment, enrichment, sharing with family and friends, and creative stimulation.

We gain exciting insights about ourselves and other cultures through special exhibitions, Atrium Alive weekend festivals, and family art-making programs. You are vital to the equation. Your experiences shape the art you look at and the performances you watch, making them more meaningful and transformative. PEM continues to touch lives and to make a difference.

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Peabody Essex Museum exhibitions A Legacy of Change: Native American Art Located in the Contemporary Native American Art, Wheatland Gallery on view june 19, 2012 to june 25, 2013 following on the heels of the highly acclaimed 2012 headlining exhibition Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art, PEM unveils an installation conveying the dynamism and vitality of Native artists. Selected from PEM’s Native American art collection—one of the world’s oldest and finest collections of its kind—the works on view include a cross-section of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, and textile arts created over the last 200 years. Each piece explores how Native artists have been continually innovative, reflecting their personal and cultural experiences in ongoing dialogue with new ideas, materials, technologies, and cultures.

Natural Histories, Photographs by Barbara Bosworth Located in the Photography, Hilborn Gallery on view april 14, 2012 to may 27, 2013 over the last 20 years, renowned Boston artist Barbara Bosworth has made photographs of her family around her childhood home in Novelty, Ohio, and at other locations significant to her family.

Be among the first to see these touching images that explore the joy of youth and the wistfulness of aging, memory and the passage of time. Also on view, delicate natural objects collected by Bosworth’s family show a continuity of interest in nature across generations.

The photographs in Natural Histories, Photographs by Barbara Bosworth are among the most successful of Bosworth’s career, but most will appear for the first time at PEM. FreePort [No. 005]: Michael Lin Located in the Asian Export Art, China, Mellon Staircase and Galleries on view march 22, 2012 to may 27, 2013

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Peabody Essex Museum 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 climb 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.

Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China Located in the Asian Export Art, Works on Paper Gallery on view march 14, 2009 to january 31, 2013 through delicate works on paper and other select objects, explore four essential motifs Westerners often associate with China—fish, silk, tea, bamboo. Each was cultivated for artistic expression as well as profit. All helped shape the emerging concept of the Middle Kingdom in 18th century Europe.

Perfect Imbalance, Exploring Chinese Aesthetics Located in the Chinese Art, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Gallery on view march 11, 2009 to january 31, 2013 chinese culture is diverse, longstanding, and ever-changing.

Yet common ties unite. This exhibition offers an approach to understanding Chinese culture through a study and celebration of the aesthetics of Chinese art. Objects included reveal key aesthetic clues that define the art of China, and distinguish it from art produced by neighboring regions, or art made in China for the export market. These aesthetic standards prevailed with the passing of time and foreign influences. Ultimately they are a testament to the power of art. The exhibition features 30 objects that date from

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Peabody Essex Museum the Neolithic era to 2004 in a range of media including paintings, jade, textiles, porcelain, and prints.

Golden Light, Selections from the Van Otterloo Collection Located in the American Art, Barbara Weld Putnam Gallery on view august 11, 2012 to september 1, 2013 golden light explores Dutch art and life in the 1600s through a selection of paintings from the internationally significant collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo. In 2011, more than 105,000 visitors viewed the namesake exhibition at PEM, Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection. This new installation features 16 paintings by Hendrick Avercamp, Frans Hals, Pieter Claesz, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and notable others.

Maria Schalcken (ca. 1647/50 – 1684/1709), The Artist at Work in Her Studio, ca. 1680, Oil on panel, The Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection.

Hats: An Anthology

by Stephen Jones Located in the Special Exhibition Galleries on view september 8, 2012 to february 3, 2013

revel among more than 250 hats—celebrity toppers, the finest couture, a 12th century Egyptian fez—in an exhibition that explores the boundless creativity of millinery design and the universal joy of wearing hats.

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Peabody Essex Museum The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries Located in the Peabody Essex Museum on view october 27, 2012 to december 31, 2012 monumental in scale and meticulous in construction, the Pastrana Tapestries are one of the finest examples of Gothic tapestry in existence. The four 36-foot-long tapestries are on view together for the first time as part of a rare U.S. tour that follows an extensive restoration project. Expertly woven in Belgium’s Tournai workshops in the late 1400s, the Pastrana Tapestries are singular for their depiction of a contemporary subject: the military victories of Portugal’s King Afonso V (1432–1481) in North Africa. Through vibrantly colored wool The Pastrana Tapestries: The and silk threads, a vivid scene Portuguese Expedition in North Africa.

Probably produced under the direction of military pomp and conquest of Passchier Grenier, tapestry merchant, emerges—knights in full regalia Tournai (Belgium), 1470s, wool and silk, Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara and the raise their swords to the sky, Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, royal trumpeters sound their Pastrana, Spain. advance, ships’ masts punctuate the horizon, and scenes of battle teem with valor and might. PEM is the exclusive Northeast venue for The Invention of Glory, which will be presented as an immersive, single gallery experience.

Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence Located in the Peabody Essex Museum on view february 2, 2013 to april 21, 2013

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Peabody Essex Museum between independence from Britain in 1947 and the economic boom of the 1990s, a revolutionary art movement in India took form. Mindful of Western modernism’s universal premises, but free from its stylistic and cultural restrictions, three generations of artists engaged with and responded to art from around the world and across time, pursuing hybrid paths toward a broader vision of 20th century art.

Midnight Durga, 1985, Bikash Bhattacharjee, The Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, Peabody Essex Museum.

African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond Located in the Peabody Essex Museum on view june 1, 2013 to september 2, 2013

created at significant social and political moments in America, this premier collection of paintings, photographs and sculpture by 43 prominent African American artists presents conversations about art, identity, and the rights of the individual. The artworks reflect an America that celebrates the multi-faceted nature of society.

Contact The Peabody Essex Museum East India Square 161 Essex Street Salem, MA 01970 www.pem.org Tickets (978) 745-9500

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Peabody Essex Museum Contact Information American Repertory Theater: (615) 547-8300 Boston Ballet: (617) 695-6950 Boston Lyric Opera: (617) 542-6772 Boston Philharmonic: (617) 236-0999 Boston Symphony Orchestra: (888) 266-1200 DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum: (617) 259-8355 Handel and Haydn Society: (617) 266-3605 Harvard Art Museums: (617) 495-9400 Huntington Theatre Company: (617) 266-0800 Institute of Contemporary Art: (617) 478-3100 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: (617) 278-5156 Museum of Fine Arts: (617) 267-9300 New Repertory Theatre: (617) 923-8487 Peabody Essex Museum: (978) 745-9500

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