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Alexandra Rozenman’s “Transplanted” at the Multicultural Arts Center

// Exhibits

By Lindsey Davis East Cambridge, MA – Alexandra Rozenman’s show “Transplanted” works to do just that — move you from this world into another, one with more hope, less worry, and more wonder. Scenes of bliss simply painted, the 11 large works hang in the Multicultural Arts Center’s Upper Gallery like 11 rectangular portals, most inspired by famous hands from art history. In “Moving in with Breugel,” Alexandra’s world of painting clashes at a diagonal with the worlds created by the Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. She casts green grass against white snow that’s complete with the hunters and their dogs from Bruegel’s 1565 painting, “The Return of the Hunters.” “Moving with Turner to Brooklyn” shows a girl facing a city with paint dripping all around her — a fantasized version of J.M.W. Turner’s characteristic melting, blended use of color. It’s a reinterpretation of … [Read more...] about Alexandra Rozenman’s “Transplanted” at the Multicultural Arts Center

Q & A with Joi Gresham, Director and Co-Trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust

// News, Theatre

by Lindsey Davis Boston, MA – Huntington Theater Company in Boston’s South End is currently performing Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” a play that first debuted in 1959. When Hansberry passed away in 1965, she named her former husband as her literary executor, and that man later remarried Joi Gresham’s mother.  After his death Joi took on the role as the executive director of the Lorraine Hansberry Properties Trust.  She manages all publications and staging of Lorraine’s work, which includes involvement in the Huntington Theater Company’s current performances. As the trustee of these important works of literature, Joi continues to speak about Lorraine, her activism and her continued relevance, even in “post-racial” America.   DID YOU EVER MEET LORRAINE IN PERSON? WHETHER OR NOT YOU WERE ABLE TO, WHAT IMPRESSION HAS SHE LEFT ON YOU? At the age of 34, Lorraine … [Read more...] about Q & A with Joi Gresham, Director and Co-Trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust

At The Armory Show

// News

By Lindsey Davis New York, NY - A few weekends ago, I attended my first-ever international art fair, taking the train from Boston’s South Station to Penn Station in New York City to spend six hours walking through rows and rows of art at The Armory Show. Split between two piers on Manhattan’s West Side, The Armory dedicated Pier 92 to modern art and Pier 94 to contemporary art. The modern works were created during and in the style of the Modernism movement which reigned from 1890-1960, whereas the contemporary art was generally made by artists still living — forward-thinking conceptually heavy works. Truth be told, there was hardly a difference in the types of work between each pier, except for that the modern section held works by masters like Picasso and Chirico and the Contemporary pier was more than twice the size. The modern works were held on the second floor of Pier 92, … [Read more...] about At The Armory Show

Ruth Segaloff: Lest We Forget at Galatea Fine Art

// Exhibits

By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - Ruth Segaloff’s newest work comprises “Lest We Forget,” an exhibition at Galatea Fine Art on Harrison Avenue in Boston on view until the end of March. A collection of collaged conceptual pieces, the show is represented by 16 works that were mostly created especially for this exhibit and nine of which were made within the last year. “My works are intended to evoke memories, beliefs and actions,” Segaloff said. “Sometimes I actually want to provoke the observer into a greater self examination that requires a response, or at the very least, begins the conversation.” The exhibit is titled “Lest We Forget,” after one of Segaloff’s earlier pieces of the same name, that’s currently on view as part of the “Pursuing Justice Through Art” exhibition at the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell through April 20. The artwork has a worn white baby shoe at the … [Read more...] about Ruth Segaloff: Lest We Forget at Galatea Fine Art

Operation Epsilon at Central Square Theatre

// Theatre

By James Foritano Cambridge, MA - It’s the close of World War II, the dawn of the atomic age. The Allies have captured Germany’s Top 10 nuclear scientists and sequestered them in a country estate in England in order to listen in on their conversation and learn what they know about the American nuclear program and to gauge how close the Nazis were to making a nuclear bomb. Ironies abound in this drama based on real military eavesdropping by playwright Alan Brody, professor of theater arts at MIT and co-director of Catalyst Collaborative @MIT, a science-meets-theater collaboration between Central Square Theater and MIT. Exploiting the rich but incomplete trove of recordings and documents that have survived time, Alan Brody weaves a drama less about material physics than about the physics of motivation. In this placid country estate, a tangle of personalities collides and within … [Read more...] about Operation Epsilon at Central Square Theatre

Audio Concept’s “State of the Art”

// Exhibits

By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - Audio Concepts’ Experience Center is comprised of numerous showrooms decked out in high-tech home theater systems — a store disguised as side-by-side living rooms and open aired spaces. Now, work from local artists and art students will cover these walls until August, as part of a new fine art exhibition called “State of the Art.” The title plays with the dynamic created between technology and art, which is fitting since each room uses both to create its own distinct character, a character embodied by the room’s first impressions as you enter. Each room is named after a well-known literary figure like Thoreau, Kerouac and Verne whose personalities inspire the mood of each space, each dedicated to one artist like the wet abstract impressionism of Bonnie Lanzillotta and the bright architectural scenes of Arlene Greenspan. The work of abstract artist Connie … [Read more...] about Audio Concept’s “State of the Art”